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al-Tadhkirah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah _Berlin_Staatsbibliothek (Berlin)_Ms. or. oct._3568

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1b-31b

Notes

Incomplete; ends in III.7[3]
Has been incorrectly attributed to Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī in several sources (see references)

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311088

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References

Fazlıoğlu, İhsan. 2007. “Samarqandī: Shams Al‐Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Ashraf Al‐Ḥusaynī Al‐Samarqandī”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia Of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey, 2:1008. New York: Springer.

Claims incorrectly, based on other sources, that Samarqandī wrote "a general astronomy book, no longer extant, reportedly entitled al‐Tadhkira fī ʿilm al‐hayʾa."

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. 230 (no. 655), A2. This is a misattribution to Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī. Note the shelfmark is incorrectly given as Oct. 3586.