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Add MS 7489
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Maqṣad al-ṭālib wa-muntahá al-maṭālib مقصد الطالب ومنتهى المطالب
Sharīf, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Muḥammad Sharīf شريف، عبد الرحيم بن محمد شريف
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Treatise on the use of the astrolabe by ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Muḥammad Sharīf al-Sharīf (عبد الرحيم بن محمد شريف الشريف, see f. 1v, line 9). The text was composed in or shortly after 1114/1702 as indicated by the table of star coordinates (ff. 85v-87v) correct for the beginning of the month of Muḥarram of that year (i.e. end of May 1702).
The treatise is divided into an introduction (مقدمة), twenty-four chapters (باب), and a conclusion (خاتمة). A list of the chapters and the folios on which they begin is found on f. 1r.
The copy was completed at Baghdad on 1 Rabī‘ I 1165/18 January 1752 (see colophon, f. 94r, line 20, transcribed below).
The treatise contains nine tables and diagrams:
- (1) Plane Sine Table Alongside the Degrees to the Quarter Cycle (جدول الجيب المستوي بأزاء الدرجات إلى ربع الدورة, f. 30r);
- (2) Sine-Cosine Quadrant (f. 41v);
- (3) Table of Declinations (جدول الانحرافات; ff. 53r-58v);
- (4) Geometrical diagram (f. 59v);
- (5) Table of the Plane Cotangent [Measured] in Digits and Feet (جدول الظل الثاني المستوي بالأصابع والأقدام, f. 62r);
- (6) The First and Mean [Longitudes] of the Signs of the Zodiac (أوائل البروج وأوساطها, f. 64v);
- (7) Table of the Latitudes and Longitudes of the Fixed [Stars], Directions, Temperaments, Settling (?), Distances from Circle of the Equator and the Direction of the Distance, the Arc of the Celestial Equator, Degrees of Transit, and the Degrees of Their Rising and Setting for the Beginning of Muḥarram 1114 AH (جدول أطوال الثوابت وعروضها وجهتها وأمزجتها وإقرارها وبعدها عن دائرة المعدل وجهة البعد وقوس تعديل النهار ودرجات الممر ودرجات طلوعها وغروبها في ابتداء محرم الحرام سنة 1114 من الهجرة, ff. 85v-87v);
- (8) Table of the Arrival of β Cassiopeiae to the Meridian When the Sun Is In the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac and Their Degrees (جدول وصول كف الخضيب إلى نصف النهار عند كون الشمس في البروج الإثنى عشر ودرجتها, ff. 89v-90r);
- (9) Table of the Arrival of β Cassiopeiae to the Meridian Circle in the Hours Passed in the Day and Night When the Sun Is In the Upper and Lower Portions of the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac (جدول وصول كف الخضيب إلى دائرة نصف النهار في الساعات الماضية من النهار والليل عند كون الشمس في أجزاء البروج الفوقانية والتحتانية, f. 91v).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-5):
الحمد لله الذي خسر الشمس والقمر ذائبين وجعل
الليل والنهار آيتين والصلوة والسلام على
من أشرقت بأنواره النيرات في المشرقين محمد
ابن عبد الله بن عبد المطلب سيد الكونين
Ends (f. 94r, lines 17-19):
ولنختم الرسالة بحمد الله العالم بكل شيئ إنه عليم حكيم والحمد لله رب
العالمين والصلوة والتسليم على خاتم الرسالة محمد حبيبه وآله وذريته الطييبين الطاهرين
وأصحابه نجوم الاهتداء وأزواجه الطاهرات إلى يوم الدين والحمد لله رب العالمين
Colophon (f. 94r, line 20):
قد تم في يوم الثلثاء غرة ربيع الأول سنة ألف ومائة وخمسة وستين وذلك في بغداد
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Codex; ff. ii+95+ii
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- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100044547972.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1752
- End Date:
- 1752
- Date Range:
- 1 Rabī‘ I 1165
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
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Material: Western laid paper
Dimensions: 194 x 105 mm leaf [134 x 64 mm internal border of text frame]
Foliation: Eastern Arabic foliation in red ink, British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 19 lines per page; vertical spacing 14 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings, tables and diagrams in red
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece, text frames in gold on all folios, all edges dyed yellow
Binding: British Museum half-leather binding
Condition: Minor foxing, f. 42 pleated due to tension from binding, outer margins damaged and repaired in places with no loss of text
Marginalia: None
Seals: None
- Custodial History:
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al-Ḥājj Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥājj Sulaymān ibn Daftarī (الحاج أحمد ابن الحاج سليمان بن دفتري): his inscription, dated 1213/1798-99 (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 (1808-21), 25 March 1825
- Administrative Context:
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Baghdad
- 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 406, pp. 191
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Study:
- Thompson, J.R. Fawcett, 'The Rich Manuscripts', The British Museum Quarterly 27.1/2 (1963) pp. 18-23
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- Archives and Manuscripts
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- Not Public Record(s)