Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Third Series no. 764

Metadata

DS ID:

DS29170

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Third Series no. 764

Title:

Mūḍiḥ al-awqāt / موضح الاوقات

Author:

Muwaqqit, Muḥammad ibn Kātib Sinān / موقت، محمد بن كاتب سنان

Muḥammad ibn Kātib Sinān Muwaqqit WIKIDATA

Place:

1671

Date:

1671

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 18 leaves : paper ; 208 x 143 (152 x 74) mm. bound to 209 x 145 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 2a.
Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in naskh in black on white European glazed, laid paper. Catchwords and rubrication; fol. 1b-2a framed in gold. Illustration of quadrant on front cover and fol. 1a. Text on fol. 1b-16a with colophon on fol. 16b; miscellaneous writing on fol. 16b-17a, 18b and inner covers. Fol. 17b-18a blank. Slight water damage on outer corners.
Origin: Copy completed in Shawwāl 1081H (February 1671) by Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq al-Bursawī.
On fol. 1a, owner's statement dated 1297H (1879 or 80) and name of former owner: al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá al-Ṭāhir.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Seventeenth century

Almucantar

Early works

Time measurements

Astronomy, Arab

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9962013563506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University