Gayhān shinākht : manuscript, [1298, i.e. 1881].

A compendium on theoretical astronomy, apparently an Arabic translation of the Persian, Gayhānʹshinākht by ʻAyn al-Zamān Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad Abū ʻAlī Qaṭṭān Marvazī (d. 1153 or 4).Watermark: Three crescents. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.Contains astronomical tables and diagrams and a map of the northern hemisphere from Spain to China enhanced with blue sand.In Maghribī script.Text rubricated, with silver flecks and blue sand clinging to red ink ; marginal corrections in hand of copyist (?).Date in colophon: wa-wāfaqat nihāyatuhu yawm al-sabt min awākhir shahr Jumādá al-ūlá min ʻām thamāniyah wa-tisʻīn wa-miʼatayn wa-alf min al-hijrah al-nabawīyah [ca. April 1881].Title from opening matter (author's preface) on p.2.A compendium on theoretical astronomy, apparently an Arabic translation of the Persian, Gayhānʹshinākht by ʻAyn al-Zamān Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad Abū ʻAlī Qaṭṭān Marvazī (d. 1153 or 4).Mode of access: Internet.McGregor FundPurchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: on cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof