MS. Huntington 557 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Huntington Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: 1 copy of al-Kawākib al-durrīyah fī waḍʻ al-binkāmāt al-dawrīyah by Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Maʻrūf, 1525 or 6-1585
Title: Risālah fī ʻilm al-binkāmāt
Title: رسالة في علم البنكامات
Composed 1559
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم و به نستعين. يا من أبدع الحركة والسكون واطلع بدور المعارف من أفق غيبه المكنون وجعل في حركات هذه الدوائر والكرات رقائق الحقائق ودقائق الإشارات
Language(s): Arabic
References
GAL II 358
UAM. 968, with corrig. Nicoll p. 604; revised by Beeston
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 67 ff.
History
Origin: 1565 [copied from the autograph]. CE
Provenance and Acquisition
The collections of Robert Huntington, d. 1701.
Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1693.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team.
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
JISC
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