Risālah fī al-burūj wa-al-manāzil
Subtitle: Farāʼid jawharīyah fī fawāʼid al-mīqātīyah
Contributors: Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1831
Language: ara
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Arab Astronomy; Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800; Time measurements
Other titles: Farāyid jawharīyah fī fawāyid mīqātīyah
Work titles: Farāʼid jawharīyah fī fawāʼid al-mīqātīyah
Notes: Ms.

Paper:  yellowed cream, with watermarks, untrimmed, in moderate condition; brown stains on bottom of many leaves.  Black ink on title page; black and red ink in text.  Catchwords on rectos.  Marginal notes.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-783.

Naskhī script; 19 lines in written area, 15 x 10 cm.

Illustration fol. 15a; chart fol. 15b and fol. 29b.

Text ends on fol. 34a, followed by notes on fol. 34b-36b.

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.