Risālah fī al-hayʼah al-falakīyah
Contributors: Jighmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, -1221?; Khuwārizmī, Ḥusām ibn Fakhr al-Dīn, scribe; Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1401
Place of publication: Cairo
Language: ara
Number of pages: 67
Subjects: Astronomy; Early works to 1800; Arabic Manuscripts; Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah (Jighmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad)
Description: Commentary on the astronomy of Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Jighmīnī.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from title added in later hand (f. 1r).

Pagination: Pagination in Hindu-Arabic numerals in ink, upper outer corners (1-11), continuing pagination added in pencil, upper outer corners (12-67).

Layout: 25 to 30 lines per page. Written across the entire page with little room left for marginalia.

Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, unvocalized.

Decoration: Rubrications in red. Astronomical diagrams (f. 10r, 30r-30v, 60v).

Origin: Copy is dated 5 Muḥarram 804 AH, and was copied in Cairo by Ḥusām ibn Fakhr al-Dīn al-Khuwārizmī (f. 66v).

Shelfmark: MS Or 148.

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Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Arabic.

Note in pencil on f. 1r: "Purchased in Beirut 1933. Verified by Dr. Rustem, Librarian".

Leather spine connected to pasteboard back cover. No front cover.

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