Lot 87

Muhammad b. al-Hasan b. al-Haitham(AH 430/1038 AD): Risalah fi Samt al-Qiblah and Ahmad b. Mustafa Tashkopruzade (AH 968/AD 1560): Risalah fi'l 'Amal bi'l Rub' al-Mujayyab

PROBABLY TURKEY, AH 1 MUHARRAM 953/4 MARCH 1546 AD

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Muhammad b. al-Hasan b. al-Haitham(AH 430/1038 AD): Risalah fi Samt al-Qiblah and Ahmad b. Mustafa Tashkopruzade (AH 968/AD 1560): Risalah fi'l 'Amal bi'l Rub' al-Mujayyab
Probably Turkey, AH 1 Muharram 953/4 March 1546 AD
On determining the direction of Qibla and the use of the astronomical quadrant, Arabic manuscript on paper, 20ff. each with 19ll. of small black naskh, titles, overlining, tables and diagrams in red, final folio with colophon dated 1 Muharram 953, water staining, in later tan morocco binding
Folio 7½ x 4¾in. (19 x 12cm.) (2)

Lot Essay

The author of the first work, ibn al-Haitham, was a mathmetician and astronomer of some renown who was also know as Ptolemy II. He wrote on a variety of subjects of a scientific nature.
The second author, Taskopruzade, was probably attached to the Sultaniyah in Bursa, and completed this work in 1516.

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