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TEXT

Muqaddima fī maʿrifat al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-shakkāziyya

Title (arabic)

مقدّمة في معرفة العمل بربع الشكّازية
Title (translit)

Muqaddima fī maʿrifat al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al- shakkāziyyah
Alias

Risāla fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-shakkāziyya
Author

Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl ibn Yūsuf al-Māridīnī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomical Instruments
Text type

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

On the use of a double shakkāzī quadrant, without divisions. Note that only MS
7463 is attributed to al-Māridīnī (see King, Survey, p.67).
ismi_id

107810

Manuscript Witnesses

4 witnesses:
Muqaddima fī maʿrifat al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-shakkāziyya_Cairo_Dār al-kutub_Dār al-kutub mīqāt_138
Muqaddima fī maʿrifat al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-shakkāziyya_Damascus_Asad_unknown [Asad]_3098
Muqaddima fī maʿrifat al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-shakkāziyya_Damascus_Asad_unknown [Asad]_7463
Muqaddima fī maʿrifat al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-shakkāziyya_Istanbul_Süleymaniye Manuscript Library_Fatih_5397

Literature References

King, David. 1974. “An Analog Computer for Solving Problems of Spherical Astronomy: The shakkâzîya Quadrant of Jamâl Al-Dîn Al-Mâridînî”. Archives Internationales d’histoire Des Sciences 24: 219-42.