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Title

Commentary on Ptolemy's Almagest.

Call number

Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 870
(Princeton, Princeton University, Princeton University Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 10022926
• http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/c534fs61g

Publisher

Princeton University

Origin

Date

18th century

Summary

A manuscript commentary on the Almagest, the classical 2nd-century mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths, probably prepared by Mirza Qazi bin Kashif al-Din al-Yazdi (d. 1664/5 CE), Sheikh al-Islam and son of a physician to Shah 'Abbas I.

Extent

1 volume ; 22 x 31.7 cm

Provenance

• Purchase.
   

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century

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