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032-002899480 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Language Persian

1. Add MS 23569

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Title:
Five treatises on astronomy and mathematics in Persian and Arabic
Scope & Content:
A collection of five astronomical and mathematical treatises in Persian and Arabic. Folios 77v and 78r have been left blank. Contents: (1) al-Qūshjī (القوشجي), Risālah dar ‘ilm-i hay’ah (رسالة در علم هيئة; ff. 1v-46r) (2) al-‘Āmilī (العاملي), Tashrīḥ al-aflāk (تشريح الأفلاك; ff. 46v-56v); (3) a...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Persian
Date Range:
1055-1057
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+135+v

2. Add MS 23569, ff 56v-77r

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Title:
Risālah sī faṣl رساله سي فصل Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Treatise on practical astronomy (تقويم) divided into thirty sections (سي فصل) composed in 658/1260 (see Amīn, Mustadrakāt a‘yān al-shī‘ah, p. 233) by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين الطوسي, d. 1274). The full title of the work is Sī faṣl dar ma‘rifat-i taqvīm (سي فصل در معرفت تقويم). The text ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
25 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1055
Extent:

Ff. 56v-77r

3. Add MS 23569, ff 1v-46r

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Title:
Risālah dar ‘ilm-i hay’ah رسالة در علم هيئة Qūshjī, ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad قوشجي، علي بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Popular textbook of astronomy written in Samarqand in 1458 by Abū al-Qāsim ‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad al-Qūshjī (أبو القاسم علاء الدين علي بن محمد القوشجي; d. 1474). The text contains 22 diagrams in red and black ink (ff. 2r, 2v, 3r, 5r, 11r, 14r, 15v, 17r, 21v, 23r, 26v, 32v, 33r, 34r, 34v...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1646-47
Extent:

Ff. 1v-46r

4. Add MS 23569, ff 78v-103r

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Title:
Bīst bāb dar ma‘rifat asṭurlāb بيست باب در معرفت اسطرلاب Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the use of the astrolabe in twenty chapters (بيست باب) by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين الطوسي, d. 1274). This copy was completed on 29 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1057/26 December 1647 (see colophon, f. 103r, lines 9-11, transcribed below). Begins (f. 78v, lines 4-6): اين مختصر يست در معرفت...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
29 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1057
Extent:

Ff. 78v-103r