ISMI Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative

TEXT

[Treatise on the Construction of the Astrolabe]

Title (translit)

[Treatise on the Construction of the Astrolabe]
Author

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad ibn Muʿādh al-Jayyānī
Created in

Cordova
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomical Instruments
Text type

First-order prose composition (or compilation) [matn]
ismi_id

109225

Manuscript Witnesses

3 witnesses:
[Treatise on the Construction of the Astrolabe]_Berlin_Staatsbibliothek (Berlin)_Wetzstein II_1149
[Treatise on the Construction of the Astrolabe]_Cairo_Dār al-kutub_Ḥalīm Mīqāt_19
[Treatise on the Construction of the Astrolabe]_Cairo_Dār al-kutub_Ṭalʿat mīqāt_155

Literature References

Rozenfeld, Boris, and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. 2003. Mathematicians, Astronomers and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and Their Works (7th-19th c.). Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture.

P. 140 (no. 340), A2.