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Add MS 7484

Title:

Kitāb al-ta‘dīl fī al-hay’ah كتاب التعديل في الهيئة

Maḥbūbī, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Masʿūd محبوبي، عبيد الله بن مسعود

Scope & Content:

Commentary by ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Masʿūd al-Maḥbūbī al-Bukhārī al-Ḥanafī (عبيد الله بن مسعود المحبوبي البخاري الحنفي, d. 1346 or 47) known as Ṣadr al-Sharīʿa al-Thānī (صدر الشريعة الثاني) on his own treatise on astronomy. The treatise, without commentary, formed the third and final part of his encyclopaedia of sciences known as the Adjustment of the Sciences (تعديل العلوم). The composition of the text was completed at noon on Wednesday 6 Rabī‘ II 747/26 July 1346, in the shrine or district of Shara‘ābād (مقام شرعآباد) in Bukhārā (see author's colophon, f. 70r, lines 18-19, transcribed below).

The lemmata of the text commented upon are indicated by the abbreviation م (= متن), and the commentary is indicated by س or ش (= شرح).

The title page (f. 1r) reads:

كتاب

التعديل في الهيئة

لخان صدر الشريعة

البخاري

The copy was completed at Bukhārā in mid-Rajab 823/mid-July 1420 by Aḥmad b. Sirāj al-Dīn al-Ghijduwānī (أحمد بن سراج الدين الغجدواني), who praises the ruler and well-known patron of mathematics and astronomy Ulugh Beg (ألغ بگ, d. 1449; see scribe's colophon, f. 70r, transcribed below).

The text contains numerous diagrams, and some spaces have been left blank for diagrams that were never added (see e.g. f. 68v). A slip of paper containing two diagrams of planetary revolutions has been bound into the volume as f. 18.

This copy was used as the primary witness for the edition prepared by Dallal (1995, see p. 4).

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

م الحمد لله الذي زين السماء بالبروج بعدما أحكم بناءها فقال وزيناها وما لها من فروج

والصلوة على رسوله الذي جعل سراجًا منيرًا ومن نوره مستنيرًا وجعل اله وآله وأصحابه نجومًا

ولشياطين الإنس رجومًا ...

Ends (f. 70r, lines 16-18):

فإذا كان الارتفاع الغربي ذلك المقدار تنصب خشبة أو يعلق شاقول فظل الخشبة أو ظل خيط الشاقول

هو سمت القبلة هذا العمل لا يحتاج إلى الشرح بل يحتاج إلى معرفة الأصطرلاب وبعد معرفة العمل سهل والله

هو المسهل لكل عين ...

Author's colophon (f. 70r, lines 18-19):

... تم تصنيفه ظهيرة يوم الأربعاء السادس من ربيع الآخر سنة سبع وأربعين

وسبعمائة في مقام شرعآباد من مدينة بخارا صانها الله تعالى مع سائر بلاد المسلمين عن الآفات والمخافات

Scribe's colophon (f. 70r, written diagonally to main text block, below author's colophon):

تمت كتابته على يد العبد المذنب الجاني

أحمد بن سراج الدين الغجدواني

في أواسط رجب سنة 823

بفاخرة بخارا صينت عن البلايا

وهي من ممالك السلطان الأعظم

والخاقان المكرم العالم بدقائق العلوم والحكم

معين الدين ظهير الدولة أميرزاده

ألغ بيگ كورگان زيد عدله

ورأفته على أصل الإيمان

بمنه وكنه

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+70+ii

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Languages:

Arabic

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1420

End Date:

1420

Date Range:

mid-Rajab 823

Calendar:

Hijri qamari

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 173 x 125 mm leaf [110 x 80 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; nine quires (eight quaternions and one ternion) with mid-quire marks and quire signatures visible on ff. 9r, 17r, 26r, 34r, 42r, 50r, 58r, and 66r

Ruling: Misṭarah; 19 lines per page; vertical spacing 17 lines per 10 cm

Script: Nasta‘līq; the scribe is

Aḥmad b. Sirāj al-Dīn al-Ghijduwānī (أحمد بن سراج الدين الغجدواني, see scribe's colophon, f. 70r)

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

Decoration: None

Binding: Half-leather binding with marbled paper on boards

Condition: Tidemarks towards head of volume; black ink stain in lower edge corner; some foxing

Marginalia: Annotations by more than one hand

Seals: f. 1r

Custodial History:

Ja‘far al-Ḥusayn (جعفر الحسين): his inscription, dated Wednesday 8 Jumādá II 1015/11 October 1606 (f. 1r);
al-Ḥāj Muḥammad ibn ‘Umar (الحاج محمد بن عمر): his inscription, dated 7 Muḥarram 1165/26 November 1751, and his seal without visible date (f. 1r; the name in the inscription is preceded by the word عبده 'His [i.e. God's] servant', not عبدة 'slave girl' as stated by Dallal 1995, p. 4).

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased from Mary Rich (née Mackintosh), widow of Claudius James Rich (1786-1821), Political Resident in Baghdad (1808-21), 25 March 1825

Finding Aids:

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 400, pp. 190

Publications:

Edition, translation and study:

Maḥbūbī, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, An Islamic Response to Greek Astronomy: Kitāb Taʿdīl hayʾat al-aflāk of Ṣadr al-Sharīʿa, ed. and trans.by Ahmad S. Dallal (Leiden, New York: E.J. Brill, 1995)

Studies:

Thompson, J.R. Fawcett, 'The Rich Manuscripts', The British Museum Quarterly 27.1/2 (1963) pp. 18-23
Cooper, Glen M., 'Ṣadr al-Sharīʿa al-Thānī: ʿUbaydallāh ibn Masʿūd al-Maḥbūbī al-Bukhārī al-Ḥanafī', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 1002-3

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Maḥbūbī, ‘Ubayd Allāh ibn Mas‘ūd, Islamic legal scholar, astronomer, d 1346 or 1347

Subjects:

Astronomy--Early works to 1800