Sharḥ al-tadhkirat al-naṣīrīyah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah شرح التذكرة النصيرية في علم الهيئة ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī علي بن محمد بن علي الحسيني الجرجاني
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Commentary by ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī (علي بن محمد بن علي الحسيني الجرجاني; d. 1413), known as al-Sayyid al-Sharīf (السيد الشريف) on the Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hayʾah (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة; see British Library, MS Or. 11209) a treatise on the astronomical system pres...
Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
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A treatise on astronomy which summarises, rationalises and improves upon the system presented in the Almagest of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168). The text was composed after 1256 by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). The text is divid...
A treatise on arithmetic and geometry, with its commentary Biqāʿī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar بقاعي، إبراهيم بن عمر
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Rough holograph copies of a short treatise on arithmetic and mensuration (geodesy) in verse form (urjūzah) entitled al-Bāḥah fī ʿilmay al-ḥisāb wa-al-misāḥah (الباحة في علمي الحساب والمساحة, ff. 2r-27r), followed by a commentary upon it entitled Ibāḥat al-bāḥah (إباحة الباحة, ff. 28r-109v, both ...