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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.

Hartner, Willy, and Julius Ruska. 1939. Katalog Der Orientalischen Und Lateinischen Originalhandschriften, Abschriften Und Photokopien Des Instituts Für Geschichte Der Medizin Und Der Naturwissenschaften in Berlin. Berlin: verlag von J. Springer.

Pp. 192-93.