Kitāb al-yawāqīt fī maʻrifat al-mawāqīt
Contributors: Watarī, Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Ẓāhir, former owner; Ibn al-ʻAṭṭār, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, fl. 1426; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Language: ara
Number of pages: 33
Subjects: Arab Astronomy; Arabic Manuscripts; Ephemerides
Work titles: Yawāqīt fī maʻrifat al-mawāqīt
Description: Manuscript has 12 pages of tables followed by 2 pages of notes from Kashf al-qinaʻ fī rasm al-arbāʻ; this section has pages missing.  Note in a second hand on the title page says that the author was [an astronomer?] for the Fatimid Caliph al-Ḥākim bi-ʼAmr Allāh (d. 411 AH/1021 AD).
Notes: Ms.

Paper:  yellowed cream, with watermarks; some leaves repaired, dark stains on edges of paper. Last few leaves missing.  Black and red ink on title page; black, red, green and yellow in text.  Occasional diacritical marks. Notes on title page and marginal notes.  Catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-773.

Naskhī script; 33 lines in written area, 18 x 9 cm.

Tables (fol. 1b-7b).

Fol. 1a - 8b.

Manuscript formerly owned by Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Ẓāhir al-Watarī.

Binding:  new cardboard covered with cloth; leather spine.

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

Purchase ; Mahmud al-Mansuri ; 1945.

Arabic.