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Delhi Arabic 1927
- Record Id:
- 032-003371667
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003371667
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100042094982.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100052731453.0x000002
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
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- Delhi Arabic 1927
- Title:
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Sullam al-idrāk fī hayʾat al-aflāk سلم الإدراك في هيئة الأفلاك
Riyāḍī Muhandis, Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Khayr Allāh رياضي مهندس، محمد علي بن خير الله
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Treatise on cosmology by Muḥammad ‘Alī al-Rīyāḍī ibn Khayr Allāh Khān al-Muhandis ibn Luṭf Allāh Khān al-Muhandis (محمد علي الرياضي ابن خير الله خان المهندس ابن لطف الله خان المهندس, fl. 18th century). The author's intention is to produce a condensed treatise (رسالة وجيزة) that will allow Arabic-reading, beginner-level students access to the contents of the more advanced Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة) by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي, d. 1274), and of the Persian astronomical treastises of Abū al-Qāsim ‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad al-Qūshjī (أبو القاسم علاء الدين علي بن محمد القوشجي, d. 1474, see author's preface, ff. 1v-2r). The author dedicated the text to his son, Zayn al-‘Ābidīn (see f. 2r, line 14).
The treatises contains a preface, introduction (مقدمة), two maqālahs (مقالتان), and a conclusion (خاتمة). The two maqālahs are each subdivided into chapters (أبواب), some of which are further subdivided into parts (فصول).
The treatise contains numerous diagrams. Folios 42-48 are of a different paper and contain astronomical diagrams by a hand other than that of the scribe.
The copy was completed on 25 Jumādá I 1185/5 September 1771 (see colophon, f. 41v, line 6, transcribed below).
Contents:
- Preface (ff. 1v-2v);
- Introduction: (المقدمة, ff. 2v-5r);
- Maqālah One: The Conditions of the Heavenly Bodies (مقالة الأولى في أحوال الأجرام العلوية, ff. 5r-);
- [Maqālah Two] ([مقالة الثانية], ff. 27r-39v?);
- Conclusion (الخاتمة [الخامسة in text], ff. 39v?-41v)
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):
الحمد لله الذي هدانا معرفة مقادير الأجرام في الطول والعرض وجعلنا من
المتفكرين في خلق السموات والأرض تبارك الذي جعل في السماء بروجًا ووضع فيها
سراجًا منيرًا خلق سبع سموات طباقًا ...
Ends (f. 41v, lines 9-11):
... فقد علم
إلى فلك الزهرة ثلث مائة واحد أربعون ألف وثمان مائة ثلثون وسبع
والله أعلم وليكن هذا آخر ما أردنا إيراده في هذه الرسالة ...
Colophon (f. 41v, lines 11-16):
ثمام بيد (؟) حب القرماش
اعتضاد لأستاذ أعظم محمد خان يكي از أبناء بني فاطمة مير إمام
الدين طال الله عمره وألقاه على
رؤس الأولاد والأولاد في
ظله قصر نسخًا كاملًا
25جمادى الأول سنة 1185
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
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Codex; ff. i+48+i
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1771
- End Date:
- 1771
- Date Range:
- 1185
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 265 x 150 mm leaf [200 x 105 mm text frames]
Foliation: India Office Library foliation stamped in black ink
Ruling: No ruling visible; 15 lines per page; vertical spacing 8 lines per 10 cm
Script: Nasta’līq
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings overlinings ad diagrams in red
Decoration: ff. 1v-41v have text frames of black and red ink
Binding: Purple cloth India Office binding
Condition: Extensive insect damage, but little damage to text block
Marginalia: Textual marginalia and diagrams
Seals: ff. 1r, 41v and 48v
- Custodial History:
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The Government of India: its seal with central legend 'Delhi MSS' (ff. 1r, 41v and 48v)
- 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
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Studies:
Rahman, A., M.A. Alvi, S.A. Khan Ghori and K.V. Samba Murthy, Science and Technology in Medieval India: a Bibliography of Source Materials in Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian (New Delhi: Indian National Science Academy, 1982), p. 325
Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.), (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), no. 1273, pp. 393
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)