Zīj
Contributors: ʻAbd Allāh, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad, former owner; Minami Manshū Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha. Tōa Keizai Chōsakyoku
Language: ara
Number of pages: 387
Subjects: Arab Astronomy; Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800; Time measurements
Work titles: Zīj al-jadīd
Description: The text ends on fol. 291b, followed by charts on fol. 292a-385a.  Ibn al-Shātir was the muwaqqit of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, where he constructed a magnificent sundial to adorn the central minaret.  The sundial displayed the time of day relative to sunrise, and midday relative to the time of the afternoon prayer.  There were special curves to measure the times for the five daily prayers.
Notes: Ms.

Title from fol. 385a.

Paper: thick, yellowed cream, watermarks, in good condition, although most of fol. 2a and 3a have sections that have been painted over with black paint or ink.  Leaf 1a has notes about various abridgements of Ibn al-Shātir's book by Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Ghulām Allāh ibn Aḥmad and Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Shahīr bi-ibn Zurayq al-Shāfiʼī; notes as well on leaf 2a.  Marginal notes on many pages; catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Arabic manuscript, SM-62.

Thuluth script; 15 lines in written area, 20 x 13 cm.

Charts fol. 292a-385a.

Fol. 1a-385a.

The ownership notation of Mūsá Ibn Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh appears on fol. 1a.  A bookplate (in Arabic) on the pastedown says that the manuscript belongs to the Office of Economic Research on the Far East of the Southern Manchuria Railway Company.  On fol. 1a is another stamp in Japanese, also of Minami Manshū Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha, Tōa Keizai Chōsakyoku; additional stamps in Japanese on fol. 2a.

Binding: old leather, torn from upper edge.

Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʻArabīyah fī maktabat al-Kūngris, 47-48.

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

Arabic.