Natījat al-afkār fī aʻmāl al-layl wa-al-nahār : manuscript, [between 1736 and 1809?].

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Natījat al-afkār fī aʻmāl al-layl wa-al-nahār : manuscript, [between 1736 and 1809?].

"Prayer-tables for Cairo taken from the main corpus [compiled by Ibn Yūnus] ... preceded by a short introduction in 8 or 10 faṣls, simple calendrical tables, and a solar longitude table, and followed by a star catalog." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 91. Includes tables for Islamic years 1149 [1736 or 7] to 1224 [1809 or 10], which is the basis for the 18th-cent. date assigned to this item. This copy does not contain the star catalog mentioned by King. Pp. [29-31] are about the seven climes and about world geography relative to the qiblah.

1 v. ([31] p.) : ill. ; 26 cm.

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