Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb wa-ḏikr ālātihi wa-ajzāʾihi

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Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb wa-dhikr ālātihi wa-ajzāʾihi

Title (arabic)	كتاب العمل بالأسطرلاب وذكر آلاته وأجزائه
Title (translit)	Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb wa-dhikr ālātihi wa-ajzāʾihi
Alias	Risālat al-ʿamal bi-ʾl-asṭurlāb
Author	Ibn al-Ṣaffār: Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar al-Ghāfiqī ibn al-Ṣaffār al-Andalusī
Language	Arabic
Subject	Astronomical Instruments
Text type	First-order prose composition (or compilation) [matn]
Notes	The listing in MAMS2 (P. 121, A2) of a Treatise on the Astrolabe (Cairo, Dār al-kutub mīqāt_175) is actually a witness of this work; see King, Cairo Catalogue, vol. 1, p. 45.
ismi_id	140866

Manuscript Witnesses

11 witnesses:

Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb wa-dhikr ālātihi wa-ajzāʾihi_Aleppo_Ahmad_unknown collection is part of Ahmad_5547

Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb wa-dhikr ālātihi wa-ajzāʾihi_Cairo_Dār al-kutub_Dār al-kutub mīqāt_175

Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb wa-dhikr ālātihi wa-ajzāʾihi_Cairo_Dār al-kutub_Dār al-kutub mīqāt_639

Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb wa-dhikr ālātihi wa-ajzāʾihi_Cairo_Dār al-kutub_Dār al-kutub mīqāt_928

Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb wa-dhikr ālātihi wa-ajzāʾihi_Cairo_Dār al-kutub_Taymūr riyāḍa_163

Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb wa-dhikr ālātihi wa-ajzāʾihi_London_British Library_Add._22672

Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb wa-dhikr ālātihi wa-ajzāʾihi_London_British Library_Add._9600

Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb wa-dhikr ālātihi wa-ajzāʾihi_Rabat_Cattani_unknown_991

Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb wa-dhikr ālātihi wa-ajzāʾihi_Rabat_National Lib. & Archive (Bib. Générale et Archives, Rabat) _Manuscripts (Rabat)_358

Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb wa-dhikr ālātihi wa-ajzāʾihi_San Lorenzo de El Escorial_El Escorial Monastery Library of San Lorenzo_árabe_II 964

Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb wa-dhikr ālātihi wa-ajzāʾihi_Tunis_unknown repository is in Tunis_Sadiq._2843

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. 121 (no. 312), A1; p. 130 (no. 325), A1.

Sezgin, Fuat. 1978. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 6, Astronomie Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Pp. 250-51.

Wiedemann, Eilhard. 1909. “Beiträge Zur Geschichte Der Naturwissenschaften XVIII”. Sitzungsberichte Der Physikalisch-Medicinischen Societät in Erlangen 41: 26-78.

Pp. 70-72. This article is apparently based on ʿAbd Allāh al-Tujībī's abridgement of this work (Wetzstein II, 1150; Ahlwardt 5805).