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ʿUmdat al-ḥāsib wa-ghunyat al-ṭālib

Title (arabic)

عمدة الحاسب وغنية الطالب
Title (translit)

ʿUmdat al-ḥāsib wa-ghunyat al-ṭālib
Alias

ʿUmdaẗ al-ḥāsib wa-ġunyaẗ al-ṭālib
Author

Muḥyī al-Millah wa-al-Dīn Yaḥyá ibn Abī al-Shukr al-Maghribī al-Andalusī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomical Tables/zījes
Notes

Compiled in Marāgha (ca. 1262), after the Tāj al‐azyāj and before the Adwār, this treatise is a mixture of different zījes.
ismi_id

157441

Manuscript Witnesses

1 witnesses:
ʿUmdat al-ḥāsib wa-ghunyat al-ṭālib_Cairo_Dār al-kutub_Muṣṭafā Fāḍil mīqāt _188

Literature References

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P. 227 (no. 635), A5.

King, David. 1983. Mathematical Astronomy in Medieval Yemen: A Bibliographical Survey. Malibu: Undena Publications.

P. 151 (G21), 2.1.11.