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Commentary on the astronomy of Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Jighmīnī.

Arabic Risālah fī al-hayʼah al-falakīyah. رسالة في الهيئة الفلكية Turkumānī, Kamāl al-Dīn, active 1354 تركماني، كمال الدين، Jighmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, -1221? جغميني، محمود بن محمد، scribe Khuwārizmī, Ḥusām ibn Fakhr al-Dīn خوارزمي، حسام بن فخر الدين. former owner Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 1 Risālah fī al-hayʼah al-falakīyah.

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67 pages : 185 x 140 (165 x 115) mm, bound to 185 x 140 mm Pagination in Hindu-Arabic numerals in ink, upper outer corners (1-11), continuing pagination added in pencil, upper outer corners (12-67). 25 to 30 lines per page. Written across the entire page with little room left for marginalia. Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, unvocalized. Rubrications in red. Astronomical diagrams (f. 10r, 30r-30v, 60v) Diagram: planetary orbits Diagram Diagram Diagram: al-dāʾirah al-hindīyah

Leather spine connected to pasteboard back cover. No front cover.

Copy is dated 5 Muḥarram 804 AH, and was copied in Cairo by Ḥusām ibn Fakhr al-Dīn al-Khuwārizmī (f. 66v).

1401 Cairo Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934. Note in pencil on f. 1r: "Purchased in Beirut 1933. Verified by Dr. Rustem, Librarian". Astronomy--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York Codices Commentaries Diagrams Manuscripts