Hādhā kitāb al-manhaj al-aqrab li-taṣḥīḥ mawḍiʻ al-ʻaqrab : manuscript, [1856].

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Astronomical tables and instructions for using them to set pocket watches; also contains schedules entitled Mawqiʻ al-sāʻāt ʻalá ḥasab awqāt al-ṣalawāt by Ramaḍān ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Safaṭī al-Khawānikī, on determining the times for the five daily prayers.Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and no. 860.Title, text and tables rubricated; at top of p. [2]: yā kabīkaj.Date and name of copyist in colophon: waqafa itmāmahu fī yawm al-sabt al-mubārak al-muwāfiq li-tisʻah wa-ʻishrūn min shahr Rabīʻ al-ākhir sanat alf wa-miʾatayn thalāthah wa-sabʻūn min al-hijrah al-nabawīyah [i.e. December 1856] ... ʻalá yad al-faqīr ... ʻAbduh Riḍwān ibn Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān.Pp. [1-76]. Bound with: [2] ʻAbd Allāh Fikrī, Risālah fī muqāranat baʻḍ mabāḥith al-hayʾah bi-al-wārid fī al-nuṣūṣ al-sharʻīyah, pp. 1-32; [3] Ḥusayn Zāʾid, Kitāb al-maṭlaʻ al-saʻīd fī ḥisābāt al-kawākib ʻalá al-raṣad al-jadīd, pp. 1-89.Astronomical tables and instructions for using them to set pocket watches; also contains schedules entitled Mawqiʻ al-sāʻāt ʻalá ḥasab awqāt al-ṣalawāt by Ramaḍān ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Safaṭī al-Khawānikī, on determining the times for the five daily prayers.Mode of access: Internet.McGregor FundPurchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: inside cover, autograph: Aḥmad Sālim al-Yamanī; inside cover, autograph: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʻd ... [?]... ; inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof