• هداية السائل الى معرفة الربع الكامل
• Hidāyat al-sāʾil ilá maʻrifat al-rubʻ al-kāmil

Collections:

• Robert Garrett
• Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
• Collections Donated to Princeton University Library

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9955378193506421

Language:

• Arabic

Creator:

• Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, b. 1423
• سبط المارديني، بدر الدين محمد بن محمد

Call number:

• Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1865Y
• Electronic Resource

Extent:

• 11 leaves : paper ; 205 x 147 (150 x 110) mm.

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Description:

• Ms. codex.
• Title from preamble of text (fol. 1b).
• Physical description: 16 lines per page. Written in careful medium large naskh in black ink with use of red ; text is partially vocalized. Loose leaves and bifolia ; stained with water.
• Origin: According to note at the end of the text, copied in 993 H. [1585] (fol. 11b).
• Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله الذى رسم على صفحات مصنوعاته قواطع الدلايل ... وبعد فهذه رسالة لخصت فيها محاسن الرسايل وخصصتها بالاهم مما يتعلق بالربع الكامل
• Explicit: لبعده يحصل الغرض فيها وفى هذا القدر كفاية لمن وفقه الله تعالى والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا امين

Publisher:

• [1585]

Subject:

• Quadrants (astronomical instruments)—History—Islamic empire—15th century—Sources
• Astronomy, Arab—History—14th century—Sources
• Predictive astrology—Islamic Empire—Early works to 1800
• Rainbows
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Title sort:

• Hidāyat al-sāʾil ilá maʻrifat al-rubʻ al-kāmil.

Alternative:

• Hidāyat al-ʻāmil bi-al-rubʻ al-kāmil

Spatial:

• New Jersey

Provenance:

• Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition:

• Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References:

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 4936
• King, D. Fihrist al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʻilmīyah (1981-1986), vol. 2, p. 448, 4/4/12 (5)

Author:

• Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, b. 1423

Created:

• 1585-01-01T00:00:00Z

Date:

• 1585

Abstract:

• Treatise describing a quadrant called "al-rubʻ al-kāmil", comprising an introduction and fifteen chapters (bāb). On fol. 1a is a chart explaining the influence of the rainbow in association with the signs of the zodiac.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/jw827b72m

Location:

• HSVM Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1865Y
• HSVM Electronic Resource
• ELF1 Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1865Y
• ELF1 Electronic Resource

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Type:

• Sources
• Early works to 1800

Range label:

• Chart
• Preamble and Muqaddimah
• Bāb 1
• Bāb 2
• Bāb 3
• Bāb 4
• Bāb 5-Bāb 7
• Bāb 8
• Bāb 9
• Bāb 10
• Bāb 11
• Bāb 12
• Bāb 13
• Bāb 14
• Bāb 15
• Colophon

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• Digital content