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IO Islamic 1490

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032-003377595

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IO Islamic 1490

Title:

Sharḥ ‘alá al-urjūzah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī ‘ilm al-jabr شرح على الأرجوزة الياسمينية في علم الجبر

Scope & Content:

Anonymous commentary on the didactic poem (أرجوزة) on algebra al-Manẓūmah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah (المنظومة الياسمينية في الجبر والمقابلة) by Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥajjāj ibn al-Yāsamīn al-Adrinī al-Ishbīlī (أبو محمد عبد الله بن محمد بن حجاج بن الياسمين الأدرني الإشبيلي, d. 1204).

Commentaries on this Ibn al-Yāsamīn's poem were also written by Ibn al-Hā’im (ابن الهائم, d. 1412, see Delhi Arabic 1901, and edition by al-Jawwād 2005?), al-Qalaṣādī (القلصادي, d. 1486, see IO Bijapur 47, ff. 11r-18r), and Sibṭ al-Māridīnī (سبط المارديني, b. 1423, see Stowe 10, ff. 20r-27v, and edition by al-Suwaysī 1983) but the text of the anonymous commentary contained in the present manuscript is distinct from these other three commentaries.

The copy was completed Thursday the eleventh day after ‘Āshūrā’ (i.e. 21 Muḥarram) 1081/12 June 1670 (see colophon, f. 35v, lines 13-14, transcribed below).

Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):

الحمد لله الذي جبر قلوب أوليائه بحسن المقابلة يوم الحساب

وحط عنهم الأوزار ورفع قدرهم وأجزل لهم الثواب

وأحصى بعلمه كل شيء عددًا وجعلنا أمة وسطا

Ends (f. 34v, lines 9-12):

... وقد تظهر

لك استحالتها بالنظر فيها وفي هذا القدر الذي أوردته

كفاية للمبتدئ إن شاء تعالى وحسبي الله ونعم الوكيل

ولا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله العلي العظيم

Colophon (f. 34v, lines 13-17):

وكان الفراغ من مشقها يوم الخميس أحد عشر

مضين من عاشوراء سنة 1081 أوصل الله كاتبها

إلى مراده وكان له في يوم معاده وأدخله في زمرة

أجداده أوليائه وجعل ممن يتفضل على دماء الشهداء

مراده إنه جواد كريم

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

India Office Library
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+34+iv

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Languages:

Arabic

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1670

End Date:

1670

Date Range:

21 Muḥarram 1081

Calendar:

Hijri qamari

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 190 x 115 mm leaf [120 x 65 mm written]

Foliation: India Office foliation in pencil

Ruling: Misṭarah; 15 lines per page; vertical spacing 12 lines per 10 cm

Script: Nasta‘līq

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and lemmata and overlinings in red

Decoration: None

Binding: India Office binding in blue buckram with blach leather spine; the manuscript was previously in a binding with envelope flap as evidenced by impression left on endleaves

Condition: Minor tidemarks in gutter towards tail, very minor insect damage

Marginalia: Few, increasing towards back of volume

Seals: 1r and 34v

Custodial History:

East India Company Library: its seal (ff. 1r and 34v);
India Office Library: its seal (f. 1r).

Source of Acquisition:

From the library of Richard Johnson (1753-1807), incorporated into the collection of the East India House in 1807.

Finding Aids:

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 765, p. 222

Publications:

Editions of other commentaries on the al-Manẓūmah al-Yāsamīnīyah:

Ibn al-Hạʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, Sharḥ al-Urjūzah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah, ed. by al-Mahdī ʻAbd al-Jawwād ([Tūnis]: Manshūrāt al-Jamʻīyah al-Tūnisīyah lil-ʻUlūm al-Riyādị̄yah, [2005?])
Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, al-Lumʻah al-Māridīnīyah fī sharḥ al-Yāsamīnīyah, ed. by Muḥammad al-Suwaysī (al-Kuwayt: al-Majlis al-Waṭanī lil-Thaqāfah wa-al-Funūn wa-al-Ādāb, 1983)

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Subjects:

Algebra -- Early works to 1800
Didactic poetry
Mathematics -- Early works to 1800