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Tadhkirat dhawī al-albāb fī istīfāʾ al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb

Title (arabic)

تذكرة ذوي الألباب في استيفاء العمل بالأسطرلاب
Title (translit)

Tadhkirat dhawī al-albāb fī istīfāʾ al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb
Alias

Tadhkirat dhawī al-albāb fī istīfāʾ al-ʿamal bi-ʾl-asṭurlāb
Author

Abū al-Qāsim al-Zubayr ibn Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Zubayr al-Thaqafī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomical Instruments
Notes

Treatise in 140 chapters and 3 parts:
I) types of astrolabes; 2) construction of the astrolabe; 3) use of the astrolabe.
ismi_id

95718

Manuscript Witnesses

4 witnesses:
Tadhkirat dhawī al-albāb fī istīfāʾ al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb_Algiers_Bibliothèque nationale dʾAlgérie_unknown collection (Algiers Museum)_1466
Tadhkirat dhawī al-albāb fī istīfāʾ al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb_Berlin_IGMN_unknown collection is part of IGMN_II 33
Tadhkirat dhawī al-albāb fī istīfāʾ al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb_Cairo_Dār al-kutub_Dār al-kutub mīqāt_173
Tadhkirat dhawī al-albāb fī istīfāʾ al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb_Cairo_Dār al-kutub_K (falak wa-riyāḍa)_8535

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.

Pp. 25 (no. 757), A1.