Details

Subject(s)

• Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad -1412—Ghāyat al-suʼūl [Browse]
• Geography, Arab—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Cities and towns—Islamic Empire—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 40L [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• tables (documents) [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of tables and charts with the names of towns arranged alphabetically, determining the latitude, longitude and declination of each. It is followed on fol. 11b-12a by an appendix (fāʼidah) signed ʻAlī al-Amlīṭī? al-Mālikī concerning a proposition by Ibn al-Hāʼim at the end of Ghāyat al-suʼūl, and by a short text in verses on fol. 13b-14a (ends abruptly).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Contains charts. Inscriptions on fol. 13a and 14b. The tables in Text 1 are numbered using Abjad.
• Collation: Paper, fol. 14 ; 1¹⁰ 2-3² ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: Number of lines per page varies.
• Description: Written in medium small to large script in thick black ink with use of red. Each line in Text 2 is written over two pages. European glazed paper with watermark (Tre lune).
• Origin: Copy completed on 28 Shaʻbān 1218 (colophon, fol. 9a).
• Explicit text 1 (fol. 9b): وهذه بيان اسقاط المطالع البلديه لتعرف الطالع والغارب والمتوسط كا لد لا م لد لو ثم له مرتب من حمل للسنبله وعكسها من اول الميزان لاحز الحوت بلا توان تمت هذه النسخة
• Incipit text 3 (fol. 13b): علي ثلاثة يدور الحير المال والاعداد
• Incipit text 2 (fol. 11b): فايدة تتعلق بقول ابن هايم فى اخر غاية السئول النوع السابع اذا قال له علي مثلث عشرة الخ وقوله ولو قال له علي مثلث مربع مخمس
• Incipit text1 (fol. 1b): ابتدي الطول من الساحل العربي مهتدا الي جهة الشرق وابتدا العرض من خط الاستوي الذي هو قطر دايرة المعدل ممتد الي اخر قطبي الجنوب والشمال

Binding note

Unbound.

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., 756
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 493 (5/21)

Other format(s)

• Also available in an electronic version.
• Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

76250336

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