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Manuscript/Mixed Material Risālah fī al-burūj wa-al-manāzil : Farāʼid jawharīyah fī fawāʼid al-mīqātīyah رسالة في البروج و المنازل : فرائد جوهرية في فوائد الميقاتية / Farāyid jawharīyah fī fawāyid mīqātīyah

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Title

  • Risālah fī al-burūj wa-al-manāzil : Farāʼid jawharīyah fī fawāʼid al-mīqātīyah

Other Title

  • رسالة في البروج و المنازل : فرائد جوهرية في فوائد الميقاتية
  • Farāyid jawharīyah fī fawāyid mīqātīyah

Names

  • Budayrī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, -1727 or 1728.
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner.
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 28 Jumādá al-ākhar 1247 H [4 December 1831].

Headings

  • -  Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  Time measurements--Early works to 1800

Notes

  • -  Binding: modern cardboard, covered with cloth; leather spine.
  • -  Illustration fol. 15a; chart fol. 15b and fol. 29b.
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-783.
  • -  Ms.
  • -  Naskhī script; 19 lines in written area, 15 x 10 cm.
  • -  Paper: yellowed cream, with watermarks, untrimmed, in moderate condition; brown stains on bottom of many leaves. Black ink on title page; black and red ink in text. Catchwords on rectos. Marginal notes.
  • -  Text ends on fol. 34a, followed by notes on fol. 34b-36b.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
  • -  Arabic
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم و صلى الله على سيدنا محمد و على آله و صحبه و سلم الحمد لله الذي خلق السموات والأرض وجعل الظلمات والنور ثم الذين كفروا بربهم يعدلون. هو الذي جعل الشمس ضياء والقمر نورا وقدره منازل لتعلموا عدد السنين والحساب. ما خلق الله ذلك إلا بالحق يفصل الآيات لقوم يعلمون. وأفضل الصلاة والسلام على الهادي إلى سبل السلام محمد خير الأنام . . . .

Medium

  • 36 leaves (19 lines), bound : paper ; 24 x 17 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • QB215 .B83 1831

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2008401701

Online Format

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Budayrī, Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad, -1727 Or 1728, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Risālah fī al-burūj wa-al-manāzil: Farāʼid jawharīyah fī fawāʼid al-mīqātīyah. [28 Jumādá al-ākhar H 4 December 1831, 1831] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2008401701/.

APA citation style:

Budayrī, M. I. M., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1831) Risālah fī al-burūj wa-al-manāzil: Farāʼid jawharīyah fī fawāʼid al-mīqātīyah. [28 Jumādá al-ākhar H 4 December 1831] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2008401701/.

MLA citation style:

Budayrī, Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad, -1727 Or 1728, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Risālah fī al-burūj wa-al-manāzil: Farāʼid jawharīyah fī fawāʼid al-mīqātīyah. [28 Jumādá al-ākhar H 4 December 1831, 1831] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2008401701/>.