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IO Islamic 681
- Record Id:
- 032-003311703
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003311703
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100030968238.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100066266396.0x000002
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 681
- Title:
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Sharḥ al-Majisṭī شرح المجسطي
Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين
- Scope & Content:
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Commentary by ‘Abd al-‘Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Birjandī (عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين البرجندي, d. 923/1525 or 26) on the Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (تحرير المجسطي), the edition by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274; see f. 3r, lines 17-18) of the Almagest (المجسطي) of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus, بطلميوس القلوذي; c 90-c 168).
The text contains numerous diagrams.
Inserted between ff. 305 and 306 is a scrap of wove paper (almost certainly Western) on which is written bibliographical details of the text. Both the wording and script are very similar to the words found on the title page (f. 1r, lower middle of page).
Begins (f. 2v, lines 2-4):
الحمد لله الذي جعلنا من المتفكرين في خلق السموات والأرض وألهمنا طريق معرفة مقادير حركات
الأجرام النيرة في الطول والعرض خلق سبع سموات طباقًا وجعل القمر فيهن نورًا وجعل الشمس
سراجًا...
Ends (f. 369, lines 19-25):
والحمد لله أولًا وآخر
وظاهرًا وباطنًا والصلوة
والسلم على زبدة الليالي
والأيام محمد سيد الثقلين
وخبر الانام وآله الأخيار
العظام وشيعته
الأبرار اكرام ...
Colophon (f. 369, lines 25-29):
... وقد
فرغت من تأليف هذا الشرح وتسويده
وتصحيحه بقدر
الإمكان والتم
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- 032-003311703
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-003311703
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. ii+369+ii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100030968238.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 218 x 120 mm leaf [160 x 75 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; quire signatures (quinions) in Eastern Arabic numerals in red ink
Ruling: No ruling visible; 29 lines per page; vertical spacing 18 lines per 10 cm
Script: Nasta‘līq
Ink: Black ink, with diagrams in red ink; some rubricated headings and overlinings in red mostly before f. 70r
Binding: Western, half-leather case binding with marbled paper over boards
Condition: Insect damage especially towards back of volume; some holes repaired; minor water damage towards front of volume
Marginalia: Few; more towards front of volume
Seals: Ff. 1r and 369v
- Custodial History:
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- Seal with legend ‘Abbād Allāh (عباد الله), dated 1188/1774-75 (f. 1r);
- ‘Aẓīm (عظيم), courtier (librarian?) of Mughal emperor Muḥammad Shāh (محمد شاه, reg. 1719-1748), his seal, dated regnal year 5, 1135/1722-23 (f. 1r);
- East India Company Library, its seal (f. 1r and 369v);
- Semi-legible seal, undated, with associated inscription (f. 1r).
- Source of Acquisition:
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From the library of Richard Johnson (1753-1807), incorporated into the collection of the East India House in 1807.
- Administrative Context:
- India (?)
- 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 742, pp. 216
- Publications:
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Studies:
- Kusuba, Takanori, 'Birjandī: ‘Abd al-‘Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Birjandī', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007) p. 127
- Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th–19th c.), (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003) pp. 314-16
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)