TEXT

Takhlīs Risālat al-Wafāʾī fī rubʿ al-muqanṭarāt

Title (arabic)

تلخيص رسالة في ربع المقنطرات

Title (translit)

Takhlīs Risālat al-Wafāʾī fī rubʿ al-muqanṭarāt

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Text type

Second-order composition (Commentary) [sharh]

Commentary on

Notes

This is al-Ujhūrī (11th/17th c.) commentary (in 10 chapters) of ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Wafāʾī's (d. 874/1469) treatise al-Nujūm al-zāhirāt on the operations of the almucantar quadrant.

ismi_id

1002368

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P. 332 (no. 193).

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