جدول الظل الاول المنكوس الستيني من زيج لغبيك

Jadwal al-ẓill al-awwal al-mankūs al-sittīnī min Zīj Lughbīk.

Author
Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449 [Browse]
Uniform title
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[between 17--? and 18--?]
Description
30 leaves : paper ; 225 x 165 (203 x 15) mm. bound to 225 x 176 mm.

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    Summary note
    Part of the astronomical tables of Ulugh Bey in Arabic, comprising the table of the First Shadow (al-ẓill al-awwal) and the table of the Sine (al-jayb), with instructions on how to use the second one.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from title page (fol. 1a).
    • Written in black and red ink in a casual script bent to the right. The tables are drawn in red ink. Glazed European paper. The paper of the second part (from fol. 12 on) is smoother than that of the first part. Instructions by the copyist on how to read the tables on fol. 7a and 11a.
    • Collation: Paper, fol. 30 ; 1⁸ (+4, ff. 1-2, 11-12) 2⁶ 3⁸ 4⁴.
    • There is no colophon.
    • Incipit: منكوس ستيني جدول الظل الاول [...] يسمي(؟) الظل المعكوس من زيج الغ بيك السمرقمدي بِحَذْف التفاصل وزيادة العدد المنا[--]س
    • Explicit: ثم جمعنا الحاصلين فكان المبلغ [...] لط ح لطه فقِسْ علي ذلك تصِب ان شا الله تعالي
    Binding note
    Upper and lower covers and envelope flap have paper with red motifs on a beige background pasted on leather over paper pasteboards. Paper pastedowns. Disbound.
    Contents
    • 1. ff. 1a-12a : Jadwal al-ẓill al-awwal al-mankūs al-sittīnī
    • 2. ff. 13a-30a : Jadwal al-jayb.
    Provenance
    Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 981
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, GII, 213/1
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 298/3.1
    OCLC
    67612473
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