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TEXT

Tuḥfat al-ṭullāb fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-asṭurlāb

Title (arabic)

تحفة الطلّاب في العمل بربع الأسطرلاب
Title (translit)

Tuḥfat al-ṭullāb fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-asṭurlāb
Author

Nūr al-Dīn Abū al-Baqāʾ ʿAlī ibn ʿUthmān ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Qāṣiḥ al-ʿUdhrī al-Baghdādī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomical Instruments
Text type

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

A treatise on the almucantar quadrant in 90 bābs (chapters). King (Survey, p. 67) claims the Cairo MS is unique. MAMS II (p. 259) lists several other manuscripts with the same title that have fewer chapters than the Cairo MS. Needs to be checked.
ismi_id

130908

Manuscript Witnesses

1 witnesses:
Tuḥfat al-ṭullāb fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-asṭurlāb_Cairo_Dār al-kutub_Dār al-kutub mīqāt_26

Literature References

King, David. 1986. A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns; The American Research Center in Egypt.

P. 67 (C51, 4.4.4).