Kitāb al-jadwal al-mubārak fī ʻilm al-zamān wa-al-falak fī ḥisāb madākhil al-ashhūr al-ʻArabīyah wa-al-Rūmīyah
By: taṣnīf al-sayyid al-jalīl al-ʻallāmah al-faḍīl alladhī aqāma al-ḥisāb bi-tawfīq Allāh al-wahhāb fa-ṣāra durar wa-tuḥaf wa-itḥāf al-Ḥusayn ibn Zayd ibn Jaḥḥāf ...
Contributors: Ḥidyah, Maḥrūs, scribe; Ḥarrāzī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Sahl, associated name; Walīdī, Aḥmad ibn ʻĪsá, associated name; Watarī, Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Ẓāhir, former owner; Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1729
Language: ara
Number of pages: 35
Subjects: Arab Astronomy; Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800; Time measurements
Other titles: Kitāb al-jadwāl al-mubārak fī ḥisāb madākhil al-ashhur al-ʻArabīyah wa-al-Rūmīyah li-ibn Jaḥḥāf
Work titles: Jadwal al-mubārak fī ʻilm al-zamān wa-al-falak fī ḥisāb madākhil al-ashhūr al-ʻArabīyah wa-al-Rūmīyah
Description: The text is a popular exposition on the study of the order of events in time, and the order in which they occur, especially in those related to astronomical movements and the measurement of time.  Note on fol. 2a in another hand says that the author was a famous astronomer during the reign of the Fatimid Caliph al-Ḥākim bi-ʼAmr Allāh (d. 411 AH/1021 AD).  Fol. 1b and 12b contain instructions (in the same hand) on calculating dates in the past (pages missing after fol. 12b).
Notes: Ms.

Transcribed by Maḥrūs al-Ḥidyah on 12 Muḥarram [?] 1142 H [7 August 1729].

al-Jaʻfarīyah, Egypt.

Paper:  yellowed cream, with watermarks (tre lune), in bad condition due to damage from humidity; edges of some leaves repaired.  Black and red ink on title page, text is principally in black ink, with titles in red and green.  Text is framed by a double red line and ends at p. 16; the last 5 pages are poems and notes.  Occasional diacritics. Title page is full of notes; some marginal notes.  Catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-775.

Naskhī script; 35 lines in written area, 17 x 9 cm.

Tables fol. 5a-10a.

Fol. 1a-12b. Some leaves missing from the end.

The manuscript was copied from a book transcribed by Aḥmad ibn ʻĪsá al-Walīdī, corrected by Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Sahl al-Ḥarrāzī.

Ownership inscription of Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Ẓāhir al-Watarī on fol. 1a.

Binding:  modern cardbard covered with cloth; leather spine.

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

Arabic.

Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.