al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah
Contributors: Ṭawīl, Ḥasan, scribe; Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1872
Language: ara
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Arab Astronomy; Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800; Longitude
Description: Text is a compendium of astronomy which describes the methods of determining the positions of longitude; it consists of an introduction and two chapters.
Notes: Ms.

Title from indrod. fol. 1b.

Transcribed by Ḥasan al-Ṭawīl in 1289 H [1872].

Paper:  thick, cream-colored paper, with watermarks, in moderate condition. Black and violet ink in text.  Catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-750.

Naskhī script; 21 lines in written area, 13 x 7 cm.

Sketches of the orbit of sun and other celestial bodies on fol. 3b and the 7 zones of habitation (aqālīm) on fol. 19b.

Fol. 1b-26a.

Binding:  modern cardboard covered in cloth with leather spine.

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

Arabic.

Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
Table of contents: title: Text followed by three untitled poems.