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IO Islamic 1715
- Record Id:
- 032-003378699
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003378699
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100046777069.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100066089765.0x000002
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 1715
- Title:
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al-Takmilah fī sharḥ al-tadhkirah التكملة في شرح التذكرة
Khafrī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad خفري، محمد بن أحمد
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Supercommentary by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Khafrī (شمس الدين محمد بن أحمد الخفري, d. ca 1550) on the Memoir on Astronomy (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة) by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). The text is presented as a completion (تكملة) of an earlier Commentary on Naṣīr's Memoir (شرح التذكرة النصيرية) by ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAli al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī ( علي بن محمد بن علي الحسيني الجرجاني; d. 1413), known as al-Sayyid al-Sharīf (السيد الشريف). The composition of the text was completed on 4 Muḥarram 932/21 October 1525 (see Saliba, 1994, p. 19).
The text contains numerous diagrams, and many unfilled spaces left blank for further diagrams especially towards back of volume. Likewise, only three of the many spaces left blank for rubricated section headings have been filled in (see ff. 65v, 90r and 204v), and the rest have been left blank (see ff. 18v, 49v, 94r, 114r, 118v, 131v, 138v, 145v, 151r, 177v, 181v, 189v, 195r, 229v, 232r, 237v, 240v, 243r, 246r, 248v, 251v, 252v and 257r). An unfoliated slip of paper has been inserted between ff. 117 and 118.
The copy was completed on 24 Dhū al-Ḥijja by Ghulām Muḥammad (غلام محمد) neglects to mention the year (see colophon, f. 258r, lines 10-12, transcribed below). The year is not mentioned in the colophon as it currently appears, but seems to have been written, then erased and overwritten with the words 'after Friday prayers' (بعد نماز الجمعة).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-5):
تعاليت يا ذا العرش الأعلى وما أعظم شأنك وتباركت يا مبدع السموات العلي
وما أجل سلطانك صلى وسلم على سيد الوري وآله أنوار ملك الهدي أما بعد
فيقول الفقير إلى الله الغني محمد ابن أحمد الخفري لما كان أجل العلوم بيانًا وأ[و]ثقها
بيانًا هو علم الهئة الذي انكشف به أسرار المبدعات واتضحت أحوال المضوعات
Ends (f. 258r, lines 6-9):
... هذا انتهى الأبعاد المعلومة المقادير وأما بعد
محدب فلك الأعظم فلا يعلم إلا الله سبحانه وتعالى في بعض النسخ ولنختم الكتاب ههنا حامد
ين الله تعالى ومصليين على نبيه المصطفى وعلى آله الطيبين الطاهرين حسبنا الله
نعم الوكيل
Colophon (f. 258r, lines 10-12):
قد وقع الفراغ عن تكميل التكملة التي صنفها شمس الدين الخفري شرحًا للتذكرة من مصنفات
نصير الدين الطوسي على يد الفقير إلى الله الغني غلام محمد في رابع العشرون
شهر ذوي الحجة يوم الجمعة وقت بعد نماز الجمعة
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- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
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Codex; ff. i+258+i
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- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100046777069.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Era:
- CE
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 214 x 124 mm leaf [155 x 80 mm written]
Foliation: India Office foliation in pencil
Ruling: No ruling visible; 21 lines per page; vertical spacing 14 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; the scribe is Ghulām Muḥammad (غلام محمد, see colophon, f. 258r, line 11)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings, overlinings and diagrams in red
Decoration: None
Binding: Western, half-leather binding, both boards covered in marbled paper
Condition: Some repaired insect damage
Marginalia: A moderate amount by many hands (see especially f. 148v)
Seals: Ff. 1r and 258v
- Custodial History:
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- East India Company Library, its seal (ff. 1r and 258v);
- Three semi-legible seals, one said by Loth to belong to 'a servant of ‘Ālamghīr' (f. 1r).
- Source of Acquisition:
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From the library of Richard Johnson (1753-1807), incorporated into the collection of the East India House in 1807.
- Finding Aids:
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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 747, p. 218
- Publications:
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Edition and translation on text commented upon:
- Ragep, F. Jamil, Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī's Memoir on Astronomy (al-Tadhkira fī ʿilm al-hayʾa), 2 Vols., (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1993)
Studies:
- Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.), (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), no. 936, pp. 313-14
- Saliba, George, 'A Sixteenth-Century Arabic Critique of Ptolemaic Astronomy: The Work of Shams al-Dīn al-Khafrī', Journal for the History of Astronomy 25, (1994), pp. 15-38
- Saliba, George, 'Ḵafri, Šams-al-Din', Encyclopaedia Iranica, XV/4 (2010) pp. 341-43
- Cooper, Glen M., 'Khafrī: Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Khafrī al-Kāshī', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 263-64
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)