Friday 3 May 2019
Badr al-Din Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Misri al-Dimashqi (1423
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Badr al-Din Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Misri al-Dimashqi (14231506), two astronomical treatises (risalah) in one volume: Kifayat al-qunu' fi'l-'amal bi'l-rub' al-maqtu'; and Risalah fi'l-rub' bi'l-'amal mujib , Qajar Iran or Ottoman Turkey, 19th Century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 10ff., 21ll. to the page written in a cursive script in black ink, significant words and headings picked out in red, extensive commentaries in wide outer margins added at a later date, a few tables and diagrams, waterstaining affecting areas of text, discoloration, marbled paper covers, 19.8 x 14.7cm.; and a calendar (ruznama), Ottoman Turkey, 19th Century, Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper, 7 ff., composed of tables in red and black ink, preceded by a preface written in naskhi script, interlinear red rules, inner margins ruled in red, marbled paper covers, 20.7 x 13.4cm.; and another calendar composed of jadawil (tables), Ottoman Turkey, 19th Century, marbled paper covers, slipped inside the previous manuscript, 19.8 x 11.3cm.(3)
Provenance: The collection of the late Jafar Ghazi.
The author was known by the name of Sibt (Ibn Bint) al-Maridini. He lived in Cairo and Damascus and was timekeeper of the al-Azhar mosque in Cairo.
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