Raqāyiq al-ḥaqāyiq fī ḥisāb al-daraj wa-al-daqāyiq
Contributors: Ibn Wafā, Muḥammad, scribe; Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner; Ibn al-Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab, 1366-1447; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1825
Language: ara
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: Arab Astronomy; Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Risālah fī al-ḥisāb
Work titles: Raqāʼiq al-ḥaqāʼiq fī ḥisāb al-daraj wa-al-daqāʼiq
Description: As the introduction (fol. 1b) notes, this text summarizes and simplifies Kashf al-ḥaqāʼiq fī ḥisāb al-daraj wa-al-daqāʼiq by Aḥmad ibn Rajab Ibn al-Majdī, 1366-1447, which calculates the movement of celestial bodies.
Notes: Ms.

Title from introduction (fol. 1b).

Transcribed by Muḥammad ibn Wafāʼ on 14 [Dhū] al-Ḥijjah 1240 H [30 July 1825].

Paper: yellowed cream, with watermarks, in good condition, though upper part of leaves stained with black ink.  Black and red ink in text; catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-760.

Naskhi script; 23 lines in written area, 16 x 10 cm.

Charts fol. 8b.

Fol. 1a-22b.

Binding:  Modern cardboard covered with cloth; leather spine.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

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

Arabic.

Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.