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TEXT

Ghāyat al-maṭlab fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-āfāqī al-mujayyab

Title (arabic)

غاية المطلب في العمل بالربع الآفاقي المجيّب
Title (translit)

Ghāyat al-maṭlab fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-āfāqī al-mujayyab
Alias

Fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-āfāqī al-mujayyab
Author

ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ṭībughā
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomical Instruments
Notes

A treatise on the use of the sine quadrant arranged in 3 fanns of 60+60+15 bābs, including various tables such as a qibla table. (DAK)
ismi_id

77199

Manuscript Witnesses

4 witnesses:
Ghāyat al-maṭlab fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-āfāqī al-mujayyab _Cairo_Dār al-kutub_Dār al-kutub mīqāt_832
Ghāyat al-maṭlab fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-āfāqī al-mujayyab _Cairo_Dār al-kutub_Muṣṭafā Fāḍil mīqāt _176
Ghāyat al-maṭlab fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-āfāqī al-mujayyab _Paris_Bibliothèque nationale (Paris)_Manuscrits-Orient Arabe_2519
Ghāyat al-maṭlab fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-āfāqī al-mujayyab _Tunis_National Library of Tunis_Manuscrit Bibliothèque Nationale de Tunisie _18631

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. 68, C54 (4.5.7).