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IO Islamic 461
- Record Id:
- 032-002878694
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002878694
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023676611.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025742208.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 461
- Title:
- Seven treatises on mathematics, astronomy and statics
- Scope & Content:
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The script, ornamentation and binding of the volume indicate that it is part of a set comprising also manuscripts IO Islamic 923, IO Islamic 924 and IO Islamic 1249, all of which were transcribed in 1198/1784, probably for their owner Warren Hastings, Governor-General of Bengal from 1772 to 1785. A collation note at the end of the first text (f. 7v) is dated 14 Shawwāl 1198/31 August 1784.
A table of contents in Persian is given f. 1r.
A date lable attached to the inside of the back cover (left board) shows that the manuscript was borrowed for two months in 1908 from the India Office Library by Eilhard Wiedemann (d. 1928), professor of physics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen. In 1911-12, Weidemann published a German translation of item 7 in this manuscript ('Die Schrift über den Qarasṭūn', in Bibliotheca Mathematica, 12, pp. 21-39).
Contents:
(1) Anonymous treatise on the linear astrolabe (أسطرلاب خطّي) (ff. 2v-7v);
(2) Ibn al-Haytham (ابن الهيثم), Maqālah fī ṣūrat al-kusūf (مقالة في صورة الكسوف; ff. 8v-34r);
(3) Anonymous, al-Muʿādalāt (المعادلات; ff. 35v-180r);
(4) al-Kūhī, Wayjan ibn Rustum (الكوهي، ويجن بن رستم), Risālah fī ʿamal ḍilʿ al-musabba‘ al-mutasāwī al-aḍlā‘ fī al-dā‘irah (رسالة في عمل ضلع المسبع المتساوي الأضلاع في الدائرة; ff. 182v-189r);
(5) al-Kūhī, Wayjan ibn Rustum (الكوهي، ويجن بن رستم), Ṭarīq fī istikhrāj khaṭṭayn bayna khaṭṭayn wa-tatawālá ‘alá nisbah (طريق في استخراج خطّين بين خطّين وتتوالى على نسبة; ff. 189v-191r);
(6) Ibn Sinān, Ibrāhīm (ابن سنان ، إبراهيم), Kitāb fī misāḥat qaṭʿ al-makhrūṭ al-mukāfī (كتاب في مساحة قطع المخروط المكافي; ff. 191v-197r);
(7) Thābit ibn Qurrah (ثابت بن قرّة), Kitāb fī al-qarasṭūn (كتاب في القرسطون; ff. 198v-207r).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- 032-002878694
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- Contains:
- IO Islamic 461, ff 2v-7v : Anonymous treatise on the linear astrolabe
IO Islamic 461, ff 8v-34r : Maqālah fī ṣūrat al-kusūf مقالة في صورة الكسوف Alhazen ابن الهيثم
IO Islamic 461, ff 35v-180r : al-Muʿādalāt المعادلات
IO Islamic 461, ff 182v-189r : Risālah fī ʿamal ḍilʿ al-musabba‘ al-mutasāwī al-aḍlā‘ fī al-dā‘irah رسالة في عمل…
IO Islamic 461, ff 189v-191r : Ṭarīq fī istikhrāj khaṭṭayn bayna khaṭṭayn wa-tatawālá ‘alá nisbah طريق في…
IO Islamic 461, ff 191v-197r : Kitāb fī misāḥat qaṭʿ al-makhrūṭ al-mukāfī كتاب في مساحة قطع المخروط…
IO Islamic 461, ff 198v-207r : Kitāb fī al-qarasṭūn كتاب في القرسطونThābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī ثابت بن…
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Codex; ff. i+208+i
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1784
- End Date:
- 1784
- Date Range:
- 1198
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 230 x 130 mm leaf [150 x 80 mm written]
Foliation: India Office Library foliation stamped in black ink
Ruling: Misṭarah; 12 lines per page; vertical spacing 8 lines per 10 cm
Script: Nasta‘līq
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings and diagrams in red
Decoration: Every opening and every page has a border in gold, black and red ink; the first opening (ff. 2v-3r) is extensively illuminated in gold, red, green and blue
Binding: Hybrid binding with European and Islamic-style features; leather doublure
Condition: Excellent condition; book block re-sewn, boards reattached and spine replaced
Marginalia: Very few and all appear to be by copyist
Seals: ff.1r and 208v
- Custodial History:
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East India Company Library, its seal (ff.1r and 208v)
- Source of Acquisition:
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From the library of Warren Hastings (1732-1818), Governor-General of Bengal (1773-1785) incorporated into the collection of the East India House in 1809.
- 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 767, pp. 222-23
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)