Risālah laṭīfah fī rasm al-munḥarifāt ʻalá al-ḥīṭān
By: tālīf al-shaykh al-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī ...
Contributors: Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Language: ara
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: Arab Astronomy; Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800; Sundials; Time measurements
Other titles: Jadāwil fī rasm al-munḥarifāt ʻalá al-ḥīṭān bi-ṭarīq ḥasan lam asbaq ilayh
Work titles: Jadāwil fī rasm al-munḥarifāt ʻalá al-ḥīṭān bi-ṭarīq sahl ḥasan lam yusbaq ilayh
Notes: Ms.

Yellowed cream paper, with watermarks, some torn edges and termite damage; pages repaired.  Black ink on title page and text principally in black, with some rubrics; marginal notes; catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-765.

Nastaʻliq script, 20 lines in writen area, 15 x 9 cm.

Fol. 1a-4a.

Ownership stamp of Ḥasan (?) on title page, dated [1]192 H [1778].

Binding:  cardboard covered with cloth; leather spine.

Schoy, K. "Sonnenuhren der spätarabischen Astronomie," Isis, vol. 6, no. 3, 1924, p. 332-360.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

Arabic.

Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.