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IO Islamic 824
- Record Id:
- 032-002839768
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002839768
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023620256.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023644111.0x000002
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 824
- Title:
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Scientific and Philosophical Compendium of Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān Ghūjārātī (أحمد بن سليمان غوجاراتي)
- Scope & Content:
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Compendium of short texts, extracts and notes on scientific and philosophical subjects, compiled by Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān Ghūjārātī (أحمد بن سليمان غوجاراتي; d. 1681), and completed in Dhū al-ḥijjah 1134/September-October 1722 (see note on f. 5r).
The manuscript was later owned by the compiler''s grandson, Muḥammad Riḍā ibn Ghulām Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān (محمد رضا ابن غلام محمد بن أحمد بن سليمان), at Surat, who added ten lines of verse on 18 Ramaḍān 1141/17 April 1729 (see f. 250v, lines 11-14).
Amongst the more lengthy and readily indentifiable contents are the following:
- (1) Extract from Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī (قطب الدين الشيرازي), Kitāb Nuzhat al-qulūb (كتاب نزهة القلوب) Arabic (f. 1v);
- (2) Extract from Rabī‘ al-abrār (ربيع الأبرار) by al-Zamakhsharī (الزمخشري) Arabic (ff. 2r-2v);
- (3) Method for istikhārah (استخارة) prayer Persian (f. 3v);
- (4) Collection of extracts, notes and riddles on various subjects Persian and Arabic (ff. 5v-19r);
- (5) Notes on the following text and other subjects Persian and Arabic (ff. 23v-25v);
- (6) al-Bīrūnī (البيروني), Maqālah fī rāshīkāt al-hind (مقالة في راشيكات الهند) (ff. 26r-35v);
- (7) Abū Ja‘far al-Khāzin (أبو جعفرالخازن), Burhān ākhar ‘alá al-shakl al-sābi‘ min kitāb Banī Mūsá (برهان آخر على الشكل السابع من كتاب بني موسى) Arabic (ff. 36r-39r);
- (8) Extracts from Kitāb ṣanf fī fann al-rājī wa-laṭā’ifihi (كتاب صنف في فن الراجي ولطائفه), Ta’rīkh Makkah (تأريخ مكّة) by Quṭb al-Khafī (قطب الخفي), and Musurgia universalis (كتاب في الموسيقى; Rome: 1650) by Athanasius Kircher (أتهانازيوس كيرﭼروس الفرنكي) Arabic and Persian (ff. 39v-45b);
- (9) Extract from a treatise on trigonometry Arabic (ff. 46v-49r);
- (10) Banū Mūsá (بنو موسى), al-Shakl al-sādis ‘ashr min Kitāb ma‘rifat misāḥat al-ashkāl al-basīṭah wa-al-kurīyah (الشكل السادس عشر من كتاب معرفة مساحة الأشكال البسيطة والكرية) Arabic (ff. 50r-52v);
- (11) Extracts on various geometrical subjects including a passage from the De sphaera et cylindro (Περὶ σφαίρας καὶ κυλίνδρου; كتاب الكرة والأسطوانة) by Archimedes (أرشميدس), methods for determining the direction of the qiblah at Akbārābād and Burhānpūr, and an extract entitled al-Risālah lil-kurah al-mutaḥarikah bi-ḥarikah dā’imah (الرسالة للكرة ! المتحركة بحركة دائمة; perhaps De sphaera quae movertur Περὶ κινουμένης σφαίρας; كتاب الكرة المتحركة by Autolycus of Pitane Αὐτόλυκος ὁ Πιταναῖος; أوطولوقس) Arabic and Persian (ff. 53r-57v);
- (12) Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين الطوسي), Fī bayān annahu lā yumkin an yajtama‘ min ‘adadayn murabba‘ayn fardayn‘adad murabba‘ (في بيان أنه لا يمكن أن يجتمع من عددين مربعين فردين عدد مربع) Arabic (f. 58r);
- (13) Two riddles by Bahā’ al-Dīn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين العاملي) Arabic (ff. 76v-81r);
- (14) Bahā’ al-Dīn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين العاملي) Tashrīḥ al-aflāk Arabic (ff. 113v-123r);
- (15) Ḥusayn ibn Ibrāhīm al-Tankābanī (حسين بن إبراهيم التنكاباني), Risālah fī ithbāt ḥudūth al-‘ālam (رسالة في إثبات حدوث العالم) Arabic (ff. 125r-128r);
- (16) Yazīd ibn Mu‘āwīyah (يزيد ابن معاوية), Qaṣīdah mīmīyah (قصيدة ميمية) Arabic (ff. 131r-131v and 146r);
- (17) Extract from the Fifth Treatise (رسالة) of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’ (إخوان الصفاء) on music Arabic (ff. 140v-142v);
- (18) Archimedes (أرشميدس), Kitāb fī qismat shakl samāhu bil-sīṭumāshīyūn (كتاب في قسمة شكل سماه بالسيطماشيون) Arabic (ff. 143r-145r);
- (19) Treatise on tawḥīd (توحيد) by Muḥammad Afḍal al-Dīn (محمد أفضل الدين) defective at end; Arabic (ff. 184r-191r);
- (20) Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا), Maqālah fī al-burhān ‘alá ḥisāb al-khaṭā’ayn Arabic (مقالة في البرهان على حساب الخطائين) (ff. 191r-194r);
- (21) Extract from the al-Muḥallá (المحلّى) by Ibn Ḥazm (ابن حزم) Arabic (ff. 225r-228v);
- (22) Extract from a work by Bahā’ al-Dīn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين العاملي) concerning density Arabic (f. 233r);
- (23) A qaṣīdah by Khālid ibn Ṣafwān Fayyāḍ (خالد بن صفوان فياض) known as al-‘Arūs (العروس) Arabic (ff. 234r-241r);
- (24) Bahā’ al-Dīn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين العاملي), the conclusion (خاتمة) from the Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb (خلاصة الحساب) Arabic (ff. 249r-250r);
- (25) Ten lines of verse by Muḥammad Riḍā ibn Ghulām Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān (محمد رضا ابن غلام محمد بن أحمد بن سليمان) Arabic (f. 250v).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- 032-002839768
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- Contains:
- IO Islamic 824/1 : Risālah fī rāshīkāt al-Hind
IO Islamic 824/2 : Burhān ākhir ʿalá al-shakl al-sābiʿ
IO Islamic 824/3 : al-Shakl al-sādis ʿashara
IO Islamic 824/4 : [Risālah fī al-ḥisāb]
IO Islamic 824/6 : Tashrīḥ al-aflāk
IO Islamic 824/7 : Risālah fī ithbāt ḥudūth al-ʿalām
IO Islamic 824/8 : Qaṣīdah al-mīmīyah
IO Islamic 824/9 : Rasāʾil ikhwān al-ṣafāʾ
IO Islamic 824/10 : Kitāb Arshimīdis fī qismat shakl ...
IO Islamic 824/11 : Risālah fī al-falsafah
IO Islamic 824/12 : Burhān ʿalá ḥisāb al-khaṭāʾayn
IO Islamic 824/13 : Kitāb al-muḥallá fī al-fiqh
IO Islamic 824/14 : Qaṣīdah al-ʿarūs
IO Islamic 824/15 : Khātimat khulāṣat al-ḥisāb
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Codex; ff. ii+250+i
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- Languages:
- Arabic
Farsi
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1722
- End Date:
- 1722
- Date Range:
- Dhū al-ḥijjah 1134
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
- Era:
- AH
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 195 x 130 mm leaf 135 x 85 mm written
Foliation: Eastern Arabic foliation in black ink; India Office foliation in Western Arabic numerals stamped in black ink
Ruling: Misṭarah; average of 17 lines per page; vertical spacing 13 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; the scribe is Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān Ghūjārātī (أحمد بن سليمان غوجاراتي)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and occasional overlinings in red
Binding: British Museum binding with leather from previous cover pasted to front and back of current binding
Condition: Very minor worm damage
Marginalia: Numerous by hand of compiler
- Custodial History:
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Muḥammad Riḍā ibn Ghulām Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān (محمد رضا ابن غلام محمد بن أحمد بن سليمان), grandson of compiler: his inscription dated 18 Ramaḍān 1141/17 April 1729 at Surat (f. 250v, lines 11-14)
- Administrative Context:
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India (Burhānpūr or Surat?)
- Finding Aids:
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Loth, Otto, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office (London : Printed by order of the Secretary of State for India in Council, 1877), Item 1043, pp. 297-99
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- Archives and Manuscripts
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