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TEXT

Risālah fī kayfiyyat al-arṣād wa-mā yuḥtāju ilá ʿilmihi wa-ʿamalihi min al-ṭuruq al-muʿaddiyah ilá maʿrifah ʿawdāt al-kawākib

Title (arabic)

رسالة في كفيّة الأرصاد وما يحتاج إلى علمه وعمله من الطرق المعدّية إلى معرفة عودات الكواكب
Title (translit)

Risālah fī kayfiyyat al-arṣād wa-mā yuḥtāju ilá ʿilmihi wa-ʿamalihi min al-ṭuruq al-muʿaddiyah ilá maʿrifah ʿawdāt al-kawākib
Alias

Risālat al-Raṣd
Author

Muʾayyad al-Millah wa-al-Dīn al-ʿUrḍī al-ʿĀmirī al-Dimashqī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomical Instruments
Notes

In this treatise on observational instruments, ʿUrḍī includes several invented by himself.
ismi_id

60251

Manuscript Witnesses

5 witnesses:
Risālah fī kayfiyyat al-arṣād wa-mā yuḥtāju ilá ʿilmihi wa-ʿamalihi min al-ṭuruq al-muʿaddiyah ilá maʿrifah ʿawdāt al-kawākib_Istanbul_Nuruosmaniye Library_NONE (Nuruosmaniye)_2971
Risālah fī kayfiyyat al-arṣād wa-mā yuḥtāju ilá ʿilmihi wa-ʿamalihi min al-ṭuruq al-muʿaddiyah ilá maʿrifah ʿawdāt al-kawākib_Istanbul_Süleymaniye Manuscript Library_unknown collection is part of Süleymaniye_2673
Risālah fī kayfiyyat al-arṣād wa-mā yuḥtāju ilá ʿilmihi wa-ʿamalihi min al-ṭuruq al-muʿaddiyah ilá maʿrifah ʿawdāt al-kawākib_Istanbul_Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi_Ahmet III_3329
Risālah fī kayfiyyat al-arṣād wa-mā yuḥtāju ilá ʿilmihi wa-ʿamalihi min al-ṭuruq al-muʿaddiyah ilá maʿrifah ʿawdāt al-kawākib_Paris_Bibliothèque nationale (Paris)_Manuscrits-Orient Arabe_2544
Risālah fī kayfiyyat al-arṣād wa-mā yuḥtāju ilá ʿilmihi wa-ʿamalihi min al-ṭuruq al-muʿaddiyah ilá maʿrifah ʿawdāt al-kawākib_Tehran_Majlis shūrā_NONE (Majlis shūrā, Tehran)_4345

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. 224 (no. 629), A1.