Qāḍī Zādah ʻalá matn al-Jighmīnī fī al-hayʾah : manuscript,[1820].

Commentary on al-Jighmīnī's Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah, "a treatise on theoretical astronomy ... compiled in 618 H [1221]." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 158.Watermarks: Crown, horse, scrollwork, initials G(?)A in roman, and three crescents. For the last see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.Contains astronomical diagrams, some colored.Text rubricated and overlined in red; substantial marginal notes in hand of copyist.min shahr Rabīʻ al-ākhir min shuhūr sanat khamsah wa-thalāthīn wa-māyatayn wa-alf [2 February 1820] ... ʻalá yad ... al-faqīr Muḥammad al-Ṭarāwī shākard bi-al-dīwān al-daftarī al-Miṣrī.Date of composition and copying, and name and occupation of copyist in colophon: wa-qad faragha min taʾlīfihi al-mawlá al-muḥaqqiq al-kāmil Mūsá ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-maʻrūf bi-Qāḍī Zādah al-Rūmī sanat arbaʻat ʻashar wa-thamānīmiyah min al-hijrah [1411 or 2] fī baldat Samarqand ... qāla al-muʾallif fī tārīkhihi/suʾiltu ʻan tārīkhihi qultu la-hum wa-arrakhū/wa-kāna al-farāgh min kitābat hādhihi al-nuskhah yawm al-arbuʻāʾ al-mubārak li-sabʻat ʻashar yawman khalatFor an earlier copy of this text, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 817,1; for a later, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 805,4; for another, undated, copy, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 755.GAL,Commentary on al-Jighmīnī's Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah, "a treatise on theoretical astronomy ... compiled in 618 H [1221]." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 158.Mode of access: Internet.McGregor FundRector of the university built at Samarkand by order of Ulugh Beg and later director of its observatory; teacher of Ulugh Beg.Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: inside cover, autograph: Dr. M. Meyerhof, with his bookplate and manuscript notes in his handwriting; inside cover, manuscript notes and autograph: LC Karpinski, with date: Cairo 1933. Nov. 20