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Kanz al-ʿummāl fī sunan al-aqwāl wa-'l-afʿāl
li-ʿAlāʾ-ad-Dīn ʿAlī al-Muttaqī Ibn-Ḥusām-ad-Dīn al-HindīIn arab. Schr., arab
Risālah fī ʻilm al-qabbān : manuscript, [1637].
On the conversion of weights and measures; probably once bound with other works; copy defective (unknown number of pages missing before p. [1] and between pp. [2-3], [14-15], and [27-28]).Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and no. 860.Contains a table showing the relationships between qirāṭs, dirhams, and uqqahs.Text and table rubricated; kurrāsahs numbered 6-8.Date and copyist's name in colophon on p. [12]: najaza naskhahā fī yawm al-thulāthā ḥādī ʻashar Ṣafar al-khayr ʻām 1047 [i.e. 5 July 1637] ʻalá yad ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad Walī al-Dīn al-Birlisī[?] al-Shāfiʻī....GAL,On the conversion of weights and measures; probably once bound with other works; copy defective (unknown number of pages missing before p. [1] and between pp. [2-3], [14-15], and [27-28]).Mode of access: Internet.McGregor FundPurchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: on cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof