Kitāb al-jadwal fī al-ḥisāb al-sinīn al-ʻArabīyah wa-al-Rūmīyah
By: taṣnīf al-shaykh al-imām Ḥujjat al-Islām al-faqīr [illeg.] li-lāh al-ʻalī Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf al-Thābitī ...
Contributors: Watarī, Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Ẓāhir, former owner; Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Language: ara
Number of pages: 19
Subjects: Islamic calendar; Arabic Manuscripts; Calendar
Work titles: Jadwal fī al-ḥisāb al-sinīn al-ʻArabīyah wa-al-Rūmīyah
Description: The text is a treatise on using the solar and lunar systems to calculate the months.  It includes tables showing the correspondence of the Arabic and Christian years with a preface and it explains the positions and movement of the sun and the moon, and the discrepancies of the dates.  Poem on fol. 14b and 15a.
Notes: Ms.

[Syria?]

Paper:  yellowed cream, with watermarks, in fairly good condition, but the edges of some leaves are stained.  Black ink on title page; black, red, and brown ink in text.  Text is framed by a double red line; diacritical marks; marginal notes.  Calculations in purple pencil in modern hand on fol. 13b.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-786.

Naskhī script; 19 lines in written area, 16 x 9 cm.

Tables on fol. 3b-9a.

Fol. 1a-17a; fol. 13b-14a ruled but blank.

Signature of former owner Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Ẓāhir al-Watarī on t.p.

Binding: new modern cardboard covered with cloth; leather spine.

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

Arabic.

Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.