Lot Essay
The first page of the manuscript indicates that the author was religious timekeeper (muwaqqit) of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, a function that was once occuped by Ibn al-Shatir.
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MAMLUK SYRIA, DATED 11 JUMADA I AH 870/30 DECEMBER 1465 AD
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ZAYN AL-DIN 'ABD AL-RAHMAN BIN AHMAD AL-SALIHI: AL-DURR AL-FAKHIR FI ZIJ IBN AL-SHATIR
MAMLUK SYRIA, DATED 11 JUMADA I AH 870/30 DECEMBER 1465 AD
A simplification of Ibn al-Shatir's (d. 1375 AD) New Astronomical Tables (Al-Zij al-Jadid), Arabic manuscript on paper, 10ff. plus 2 fly-leaves, first folio with 18ll. of black naskh, the others with tables in red and black, colophon possibly re-inked, in brown morocco
7¼ x 5 3/8in. (18.4 x 13.7cm.)
MAMLUK SYRIA, DATED 11 JUMADA I AH 870/30 DECEMBER 1465 AD
A simplification of Ibn al-Shatir's (d. 1375 AD) New Astronomical Tables (Al-Zij al-Jadid), Arabic manuscript on paper, 10ff. plus 2 fly-leaves, first folio with 18ll. of black naskh, the others with tables in red and black, colophon possibly re-inked, in brown morocco
7¼ x 5 3/8in. (18.4 x 13.7cm.)