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IBN AL-MAJIDI AL-QAHRI. RAJAB BIN TAYBGHA, Shihab al-Din Abu al-Abbas Ahmad bin Rajab.

Arshad al-Hayir alaa Maerifat Wade jadawil wa khutut fadl aldaayir...

Arshad al-Hayir alaa Maerifat Wade jadawil wa khutut fadl aldaayir...

an astronomical compilation.

Stock Code 114247

Isfahan, 1222 AH (1807 AD).

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A compilation of various excerpts on astronomy, copied from an earlier manuscript dated 990 AH (1582). This manuscript was evidently copied by it's owner as a working copy for personal use, and includes their extensive contemporary annotations to the margins.

Single volume, decorated manuscript on paper, in Arabic, 78 leaves, a compilation manuscript, lacking first few leaves (only affecting one section of text), 212 x 155 mm; single column, 20 lines black informal nasta'liq script, some overlining in red, numerous diagrams in the text and to the margins, also in red, extensive marginal annotations throughout in a contemporary hand, upper corner of first free endpaper torn with loss, some light thumbing to text; housed in contemporary limp leather remains of paper label pasted to upper cover, tail of spine and hinges cracked, extremities lightly rubbed.

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