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TEXT

Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-muqanṭarāt

Title (arabic)

رسالة في العمل بربع المقنطرات
Title (translit)

Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-muqanṭarāt
Alias

Iḫtaṣār risālaẗ fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-muqanṭarāt
Rubʿ al-muqanṭarāt
ربع المقنطرات
Author

Sibṭ al-Māridīnī: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Abū ʿAbd Allāh Badr (Shams) al-Dīn al-Dimashqī Sibṭ al-Mārdīnī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomical Instruments
Text type

Abridgement (epitome)
Version of

Waraqāt fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-dāʾira alladhī ʿalayhi al-muqanṭarāt
Notes

Apparently this is an abridgement of his grandfather's treatise on the almucantar quadrant.
ismi_id

342791

Manuscript Witnesses

1 witnesses:
Ikhtaṣār risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-muqanṭarāt_Cairo_Dār al-kutub_Muṣṭafā Fāḍil mīqāt_97

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. 296 (no. 873), A17.