- هدية المهتدي في علم الهندسة والمساحة ورمي الخميرة وحفر اللغم / لعثمان المهتدي الترجمان في قلعة بلغار في تأريخ 960
- Hadīyat al-muhtadī fī ʻilm al-handasah wa-al-masāḥah wa-ramy al-khamīrah wa-ḥafr al-lughm / li-ʻUthmān al-Muhtadī al-tarjumān fī Qalʻat Bulghār fī taʾrīkh 960
- Collections:
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- Robert Garrett
- Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
- Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
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- Language:
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- Arabic
- Creator:
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- Muhtadī, ʻUthmān, 16th or 18th cent
- Call number:
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- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 162L
- Electronic Resource
- Extent:
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- 170 leaves : paper, ill. ; 236 x 163 (150 x 80) mm. bound to 235 x 168 mm.
- Format:
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- Manuscript
- Book
- Description:
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- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- 21 long lines per page. Diagrams and figures in the margin. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red; black ink and pencil for the illustrations. European glazed paper with watermark. Pagination in pencil using Arabic numerals between brackets in the middle of the upper margin. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 170 ; 17¹⁰ ; the quires are numbered using the abbreviation "k" and Arabic numerals ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
- Incipit: الحمد لله الذي علم للانسان ما لم يعلم والصلاة والسلام على محمد الذي هو مدينى العلم والحكم وعلى اله واصحابه الذين هم كالنجوم في الظلم وبعد فلما رايت بعض الرسالات الهندسية صنفها المتقدمون
- Explicit: والغاما كبيرة تحت بروجه اي بروج العدو لرميها وافادها وامثال ذلك وليكون هذا القدر كافيا لافادة غرضنا في ترتيب هذه الرسالة وقد وقع فيها تطويل وتكرير واظهار كثير في موقع ... الواقف بها تحقيقها من غير تبديل المقال بالمآل وهو غاية رجاي وهذا من فضل ربي وهو هداني الى سبيله وقد تمت هذه النسخة
- Publisher:
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- [18--?]
- Subject:
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- Military fireworks—Islamic countries—Early works to 1800
- Geometry—Islamic countries—Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
- Title sort:
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- Hadīyat al-muhtadī fī ʻilm al-handasah wa-al-masāḥah wa-ramy al-khamīrah wa-ḥafr al-lughm / li-ʻUthmān al-Muhtadī al-tarjumān fī Qalʻat Bulghār fī taʾrīkh 960.
- Alternative:
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- Hadīyat al-muhtadī fī ʻilm al-handasah wa-al-masāḥah wa-ramy al-khumbarah wa-ḥafr al-lughm
- Hidyat al-muhtadī li-īqād al-sirāj al-munṭafī
- هدية المهتدي في علم الهندسة والمساحة ورمي الخمبرة وحفر اللغم
- هدية المهتدي لايقاد السراج المنطفي
- Spatial:
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- New Jersey
- Binding note:
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- Upper and lower covers made of paper on paper pasteboards. Rebacked. Disbound.
- Provenance:
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- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
- Source acquisition:
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- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References:
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- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1056
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, S N II, 665
- King, D. Survey (1986), H43.
- King, D. Fihris (1981-1986), Part II, 6/4/48.
- Author:
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- Muhtadī, ʻUthmān, 16th or 18th cent
- Created:
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- 1799-01-01T00:00:00Z/1899-12-31T23:59:59Z
- Date:
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- 1799-1899
- Abstract:
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- Manual with illustrations on geometry, the throwing of missiles and the planting of mines, written by an interpreter in the Castle of Bulghār in 960 H. / 1553 (the 9 of 960 is overwritten by a later hand). In a ms. in Dār al-Kutub (Cairo), this text is presented as a translation from French and another European language, and the date associated with the name is 1160 H. / 1747 (see D. King, Survey, H43). For a description of the content, see D. King, Fihris, Pt II, 6/4/48.
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/qj72p7207
- Location:
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- HSVM Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 162L
- HSVM Electronic Resource
- ELF1 Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 162L
- ELF1 Electronic Resource
- Edm rights:
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- No Known Copyright
- Type:
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- Early works to 1800
- Range label:
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- Title-page
- Preamble
- Muqaddimah
- Qism 1
- Bāb 1
- Bāb 2
- Bāb 3
- Khātimah
- Maqṣad 1
- Maqṣad 2
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