Kitāb qurrat al-ʻayn fī tasyīr al-nayyirayn
By: tālīf al-shaykh al-imām al-ʻallāmah al-ḥīsūb al-faqīr ilá Allāh subḥānuh, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jaʻbarī al-Khalīlī ...
Contributors: Ibn al-Shāṭir, ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm, 1304-1375; Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1525
Language: ara
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: Arab Astronomy; Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Qurrat al-ʻayn bi-tasyīr al-nayyirayn
Work titles: Qurrat al-ʻayn fī tasyīr al-nayyirayn
Description: The text is principally based on the writings of ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Shāṭir (1304-1375), as the introduction mentions. The colophon says that the text was copied from a manuscript with many errors written in a bad hand.
Notes: Ms.

Paper:  yellowed cream with no visible watermarks, in moderate condition but stiff and difficult to turn.  Black ink on title page, black and brown ink in text.  Title page in a second hand. Fol. 1b-9a contain text, some of which is underlined; the rest of the folia contain tables.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-781.

Nastaʻliq script; 23 lines in written area, 19 x 13 cm.

Tables (fol. 9b-31a).

Fol. 1a-31b.

Binding:  modern cardboard covered with cloth; leather spine.

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

Arabic.

Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.