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Manuscript/Mixed Material [Risālah fī al-mīqāt?] [رسالة في الميقات؟]

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Title

  • [Risālah fī al-mīqāt?]

Other Title

  • [رسالة في الميقات؟]

Summary

  • Treatise on the times of risings and settings of prominent stars.

Names

  • Damanhūrī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Munʻim
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 7 Rabīʻ al-thānī 1301 [5 February 1884]

Headings

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

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title not mentioned in work; perhaps the Risālah fī al-mīqāt mentioned in Brockelmann's list of al-Damanhūrī's works.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Probably written in Egypt.
  • -  Paper; lighly polished cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and watermarks of a crescent moon with a human face in a lozenge shaped shield and a partial watermark of double headed eagle; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GII, p. 371.15
  • -  Naskh; 19 lines in written area 17.5 x 10.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-10a (10b notes).
  • -  "H-1128 = 5.624"
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-624.
  • -  Binding; brown quarter leather with black grain sides.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على سيد الاولين والاخرين وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين. وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير احمد بن عبد المعنم الدمنهوري قد اجتحدت في وضع الوفق الشريف المايني ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: تمت هذه الرسالة بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه وصلى اللع على سيدنا نخنج وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم والحمد لله رب العالمين في 7 ربيع الثاني سنة 1301.

Medium

  • 10 leaves (19 lines), paper : bound ; 25.4 x 17.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • QB23 .D268 1884

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018371892

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Damanhūrī, Aḥmad Ibn ʻAbd Al-MunʻIm, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Risālah Fī Al-Mīqāt?. [7 Rabīʻ al-thānī 5 February 1884, 1301] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018371892/.

APA citation style:

Damanhūrī, A. I. ʻ. A., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1301) Risālah Fī Al-Mīqāt?. [7 Rabīʻ al-thānī 5 February 1884] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2018371892/.

MLA citation style:

Damanhūrī, Aḥmad Ibn ʻAbd Al-MunʻIm, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Risālah Fī Al-Mīqāt?. [7 Rabīʻ al-thānī 5 February 1884, 1301] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2018371892/>.