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Add MS 7472
- Record Id:
- 032-003354161
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- 032-003354161
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100037419396.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100053421330.0x000002
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- Add MS 7472
- Title:
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Tawḍīḥ al-Tadhkirah al-Nāṣirīyah توضيح التذكرة الناصرية
Nīsābūrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad نيسابوري، الحسن بن محمد
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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 text contains numerous diagrams. The copy was completed on 20 Jumādá II 1062/May 29 1652 by Muḥammad Qāsim (?) ibn Muḥammad Ṭāhir al-Iṣfahānī (محمد قسم [؟] بن محمد طاهر الإصفهاني, see scribe's colophon, f. 119v, lines 18-20, transcribed below). Folios 1v-2r were copied by a different hand.
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 والتدبر في أمر المدبرات إلى وجود صانع قدير وحكيم خبير رتبته
أعلى وأجل من رتب الممكنات ...
Ends (f. 119v, lines 11-14):
... وجعل ما لقيت في توضيح هذا الكتاب في عرق الجبين وكدّ اليمين تبصرة للمتفكان
في ملكوت السموات والأرضين وتذكرة للمتأملين في عجيب صنع ربّ العالمين وسيلة إلي يوم الدين وسببًا
لرضي أرحم الراحمين فإن الأعمال بالنيات وبها يجلب البركات وينال الدرجات والحمد لمبدع الكل
والصلوة على الهادي إلى أقوام السبل والسلم على من أتبع الهدى ...
Author's colophon (f. 119v, lines 14-17):
... قال الشارح (؟) تغمده الله بغفرانه قد اتفق
فراغ من تأليف هذا الكتاب غرة ربيع الأول من شهور سنة إحدى عشرة وسبعمائة هلالية رحم الله من
إذا نظر فيه دعاني بالخير وأنا أفقر خلق الله تعالى إلى غفرانه الحسن بن محمد يعرف بنظام النيشابوري
نظم الله أحواله في الدارين ...
Scribe's colophon (f. 119v, lines 17-22):
... قد اتفق الفراغ من تسويد هذا الكتاب المسطاب
في عشرين من شهر جمادى الثاني من شهور سنة أثنين وستين وألف
من الهجرة على يد أفقر عباد الله وأحوجهم إلى رحمة ربه
الغني محمد قسم (؟) بن محمد طاهر الإصفهاني رب
اغفر لهما وارحمهما بحق محمد وعلي
وآلهما
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
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Codex; ff. i+119+ii
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- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100037419396.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1652
- End Date:
- 1652
- Date Range:
- 20 Jumādá II 1062
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Easter laid paper
Dimensions: 165 x 100 mm leaf [120 x 55 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: No ruling visible except bounding line at fore-edge margins; 19 lines per page; vertical spacing 16 lines per 10 cm
Script: Nasta‘līq; the scribe is Muḥammad Qāsim (?) ibn Muḥammad Ṭāhir al-Iṣfahānī (محمد قسم [؟] بن محمد طاهر الإصفهاني, see scribe's colophon, f. 119v, lines 18-20)
Ink: Black ink, with rubrication (f. 2v only) and some diagrams in red
Binding: Red morocco leather with flap, gold tooled borders and marbelled paper pastedowns
Condition: Waterstains, wormholes, etc
Marginalia: Very few after f. 6r
Seals: f. 1r
- Custodial History:
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- Imam Mūsá Kāẓim (الإمام موسى كاظم): his seal, dated 1102/1690-91 (f. 1r);
- Darwīsh (? درويش): his seal and inscription, without date (f. 1r).
- 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 396, pp. 189
- 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
- Thompson, J.R. Fawcett, 'The Rich Manuscripts', The British Museum Quarterly 27.1/2 (1963) pp. 18-23
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Nīsābūrī, Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad, d 1328 or 1329
Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, polymath, 1201-1274 - Subjects:
- Astronomy--Early works to 1800
