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Delhi Arabic 1934
- Record Id:
- 032-003354046
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003354046
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100037367742.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100053777759.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Arabic 1934
- Title:
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Tawḍīḥ al-Tadhkirah al-Nāṣirīyah توضيح التذكرة الناصرية
Nīsābūrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad نيسابوري، الحسن بن محمد
- Scope & Content:
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A commentary 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 the Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة; see British Library, MS Or.11209) a treatise on the astronomical system presented in the Almagest of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168) by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274).
The copy was completed in Rabī‘ II 827/March-April 1424 (see colophon, f. 192r, lines 20-21, transcribed below).
According to an inscription on the title page (f. 1r), this volume contains part one of this commentary, but in fact it appears to be complete. The text contains numerous diagrams.
A leaf (f. 105) containing (on its recto side only) text and diagrams by a hand other than that of the main scribe has been bound into the volume between ff. 104 and 106. A diagram on a slip of paper (f. 106a) has been bound into the volume between ff. 106 and 107. A slip of paper (frag.) containing notes on both sides was found between ff. 119 and 120.
A slip of paper containing a short note covering a long note in the margin of f. 34r has been lifted and hinged to reveal the note below.
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):
الحمد لله الذي حعلنا من المتفكرين في خلق الأرض والسموات وشرّفنا
بالنظر في هيئة الأجرام المبدعات فهدانا التفكر في المصنوعات والتدبّر في
أمر المدبّرات إلى وجود صانع قدير وحكيم خبير رتبته أعلى وأجل من رتب الممكنات
Ends (f. 192r, lines 13-18):
وجعل ما لقيت في توضيح هذا الكتاب من عرق الجبين وكدّ اليمين
تبصرة للمتفكان في ملكوت السموات والأرضين وتذكرة للمتأ
ملين في عجيب صنع ربّ العالمين وسيلةً لي يوم الدين وسببًا
لرضي أرحم الراحمين فإن الأعمال بالنيات وبها تجلب البركات
وينال الدرجات والحمد لمبدع الكل والصلوة على الهادي إلى أقوام
السبل والسلم على من أتبع الهدى ...
Colophon (f. 192r, lines 18-21):
... تم الكتاب بعون
الملك الوهاب والصلوة والسلام على خير خلقه محمد وآله الطيبين
الطاهرين وسلم تسليمًا كثيرًا فرغ من تحريره في ماه (؟) ربيع الآخر
سنة سبع وعشرين وثمانمائة
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003354046
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003354046
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. iv+192+i
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100037367742.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1424
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- Rabī‘ II 827
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 250 x 150 mm leaf [165 x 90 mm written]
Foliation: India Office Library foliation stamped in black ink
Ruling: Misṭarah; 20 lines per page; vertical spacing 12 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings and some diagram labels in red
Binding: Purple cloth binding
Condition: Waterstain at head and (towards back of volume) foot; insect damage mostly toward gutter, but more extensive towards back of volume
Marginalia: Numerous and by more than one hand
Seals: ff. 1r and 192v
- Custodial History:
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- ‘Alī Riḍā ibn al-Ḥasan, son of the deceased Ḥāj Muḥammad ‘Alī (علي رضا ابن الحسن ابن الحاج المرحوم محمد علي): his inscription dated 1186/1772-73 (f. 1r);
- Ikhlāṣ (إخلاص): his seal, dated 1123/1711-12 (f. 1r);
- Ikhlāṣ (إخلاص)?: his seal (semi-legible), dated 1111/1699-1700 (f. 1r);
- The Government of India, its seal with central legend 'Delhi MSS' (ff. 1r and 192v).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876
- 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)