Kifāyat al-ṭālib li-ʻilm al-waqt wa-bughyat al-rāghib fī maʻrifat al-dāyir wa-faḍlihi wa-al-samt : manuscript, [1st half of 18th cent.?] /

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"A treatise on timekeeping in 23 bābs." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 111. Marginal note on p. [1] refers to works of Ḥasan al-Jabartī on timekeeping.Watermark: Scrollwork.Text and marginal notes rubricated; marginal notes and corrections in hand of copyist; foliation added by copyist (?).Possible early to mid-18th cent. date based on author's death date.GAL,"A treatise on timekeeping in 23 bābs." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 111. Marginal note on p. [1] refers to works of Ḥasan al-Jabartī on timekeeping.Mode of access: Internet.McGregor FundImportant 18th-century Egyptian astronomer; pupil of Egyptian astronomers Riḍwān Afandī al-Falakī (d. 1710) and Muḥammad al-Birshamsī; close friend of Ḥasan al-Jabartī; his writings very popular in 18th-19th centuries. See J. Heyworth-Dunne, An Introduction to the History of Education in Modern Egypt (London, 1938), p. 79.Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: on p. [1], owner's seal and autograph: min niʻmat Allāh taʻālá ʻalá ʻabdhihi al-faqīr Aḥmad Ḥ[?]; on p. [1], owner's seal: min mumtalakāt al-faqīr ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd Nāfiʻ; on p. [1], manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof