880-03 Hādhihi risālat zād al-musāfir fī waḍʻ khuṭūṭ faḍl al-dāyir : manuscript, [17th century?], 880-02 Zād al-musāfir li-maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʾir

Watermark: Three crescents. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.

Contains tables.

Text rubricated.

For other copies of this text see Mich. Isl. Mss. 799,1 and 799,4.

GAL,

v. II, p. 158; GAL, Suppl. II, p. 159; King, Survey, p. 73

"Abridgement by the author" of "Irshād al-ḥāʾir ... a treatise on sundial theory with tables for latitude 30⁰, Cairo." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 73.

07/--/36

Manuscript

McGregor Fund

Purchase, 1933/34

15 p.t.

Egyptian astronomer.

Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: name of owner and copyist of pp. [1-2] on p. [1]: milk al-faqīr ilá Allāh taʻālá Muḥammad al-Makkāwī al-Fayyūmī balad al-Mālikī madhhaban ...[?]... ṭarīqat al-Dardīrī al-Siyāʻī nisban....; inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.