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Add MS 7476
- Record Id:
- 032-002784106
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002784106
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023403504.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023646574.0x000002
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- ISAD(G)
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- Add MS 7476
- Title:
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Sharḥ sharḥ al-Majisṭī
شرح شرح المجسطي
Nīsāpūrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad
نيسابوري، الحسن بن محمد
- Scope & Content:
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Supercommentary by al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn Niẓām al-Dīn al-Aʿraj al-Nīsābūrī (الحسن بن محمد بن الحسين نظام الدين الأعرج النيسابوري; d. 1328 or 9) on Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) Taḥrīr kitāb al-Majisṭī (تحرير كتاب المجسطي), an annotated edition of the Almagest (كتاب المجسطي) Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168). Al-Nīsābūrī completed his composition on 6 Sa‘bān 704/4 March 1305 (see author's colophon, f. 343, lines 8-12).
This copy was transcribed by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Hamadānī (محمد بن محمد بن الحسن الهمداني; see colophon, f. 343r, line 15, transcribed below). Numerous diagrams.
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):
السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد الواهب السعادة واليمن رسيف (؟) من أغلف
بمينبه يشكر بمري الريادة فأحمده على ما أولانا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض
وأشكره على أن جعلناه من الذين يتفكرون في خلق السموات والأرض ...
Ends (f. 343, lines 8-12):
... والحمد لله رب
العالمين صوره تأريخ النصيف أنهر التعليق بالفوز والنجاح به
صباح يوم الأربعاء لست خلون من الشهر المعظم شعبان عمت سامية (؟)
أربع وسبعمائة هجرية النبوية والحمد لله تعالى وحده وكفي والصلوة
على نبيه المصطفى وعلى آله مصابح الرجي وسلم تسليمًا كثيرًا
Colophon (f. 343, lines 13-15):
قد تمت هذه النسخة الشريفة المسمى
بشرح شرح المجسطي للعلامة النيسابوري
على يد أقل الخليقة محمد بن محمد بن الحسن الهمداني
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-002784106
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. ii+343+ii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023403504.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 16th century-17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 252 x 132 mm leaf [195 x 90 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 23 lines per page; vertical spacing 12 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh, unpointed; the scribe is Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Hamadānī (محمد بن محمد بن الحسن الهمداني; f. 343r, line 15)
Ink: Black ink, with overlinings and some diagrams in red
Binding: Islamic binding of red Russia leather, covers have blind-tooled double border of two fillets each
Condition: Minor damage to the edges of some leaves repaired
Marginalia: Many, most appear to be by hand of scribe
Seals: ff. 1v; the same small and illegible seal appears on the upper corner of many leaves especially towards end of volume
- Custodial History:
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- Owner's inscription with name erased, recording purchase of the manuscript in 1080 AH/AD 1669-70 (f. 343r);
- Claudius James Rich (كلاديس جيمس رچ, b. 1786-d. 1821), Political Resident in Baghdad (1808-1821): his seal (in Arabic), dated 1812, with legend (from the preface to the Gulistān of Sa‘dī) بلغ العلى بكماله كشف الدجى بجماله حسنت جميع خصاله صلوا عليه وآله (f. 1v).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Mary Rich (née Mackintosh), widow of Claudius James Rich (1786-1821), Political Resident in Baghdad (1808-1821), 25 March 1825
- Finding Aids:
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Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 392, p. 187
- Publications:
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Studies:
Morrison, Robert G., Islam and science: the intellectual career of Niẓām al-Dīn al-Nīsābūrī (London: Routledge, 2010)
Morrison, Robert G., 'Nīsābūrī: al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn Niẓām al-Dīn al-Aʿraj al-Nīsābūrī' in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Thomas Hockey et al., eds. (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 837
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)