Kashf al-qināʻ fī waḍʻ al-arbāʻ min al-jihat al-sitt fī ʻilm al-falak
Contributors: Ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir, Nūr al-Dīn al-Naqqāsh, associated name; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1737
Language: ara
Number of pages: 25
Subjects: Arab Astronomy; Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800
Work titles: Kashf al-qināʻ fī rasm al-arbāʻ
Description: According to the colophon (fol. 12a), the author wrote the work in 830 H [1426] based on the lectures of Nūr al-Dīn al-Naqqāsh ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir.
Notes: Ms.

Title page in a later hand: "Li-Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-ʻAṭṭār [altered to read: al-Bayṭār] al-Bakrī."

Paper:  yellowed cream, with watermarks (tri luna), in moderate condition. Black and blue ink (in later hands) on title page; black ink in text with some rubricated words.  Some marginal notes; catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-780.

Nashkī script; 25 lines in written area, 16 x 10 cm.

Fol. 1a-12a.

Binding:  modern cardboard with leather spine.

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

Purchase ; Mahmud al-Mansuri ; 1945.

Arabic.