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032-003379884

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Or 14273

Title:

al-Zīj [al-mufīd] ʿalá uṣūl al-raṣd al-jadīd الزيج [المفيد] على أصول الرصد الجديد

Razzāz, Riḍwān ibn ʻAbd Allāh رزاز، رضوان بن عبد الله

Scope & Content:

Astronomical handbook with tables (زيج) by the Ottoman Egyptian astronomer Riḍwān Efendi ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Razzāz al-Falakī (رضوان أفندي بن عبد الله الرزاز الفلكي, d. 1711). The text, also known as the al-Zīj al-Riḍwānī (الزيج الرضواني), is a revision of the Samarqand observatory's Zīj-i Ulugh Beg (زيج ألغ بك, also known as the Zīj-i jadīd-i sulṭānī [زيج جديد سلطاني], and the Zīj-i kūrgāni [زيج كوركاني]) adapted for the latitude of Cairo.

The text contains a preface, four treatise (مقالات) subdivided into introductions (مقدمات) and chapters (أبواب), followed by numerous tables (جداول) which account for the bulk of the volume.

Preface (ff. 1v-2r);
Treatise One: Knowing Dates (المقالة الأولى في معرفة التواريخ, ff. 2r-9v, of which ff. 6v-9v are date conversion tables);
Treatise Two: Knowing Times and Declination (المقالة الثانية في معرفة الأوقات والطالع وما يتعلق بهما, ff. 10v-21v, of which ff. 20v-21v are declination tables);
Treatise Three: Knowing the Planets' Motion and Longitudinal and Latitudinal Positions, etc. (المقالة الثالثة في معرفة سير الكواكب ومواضعها في الطول والعرض وتوابع ذلك, 22v-34r);
Treatise Four: The Remaining Astronomical Operations (المقالة الرابعة في باقي الأعمال الفلكية, ff. 36v-40v);
Tables (42v-260r).

The copy was produced for Aḥmad ibn Wafā’ (أحمد بن وفاء), Chief of the ‘Alids in Egypt (نقيب الأشرف بمصر) in 1172/1758-9 by Aḥmad Abū al-‘Izz al-Aḥmadī (أحمد أبو العز الأحمدي, see colophon to Treatise Four, f. 40v, lines 17-24, transcribed below).

Begins (f. 1v, lines 1-3):

الحمد لله الذي نصب العلم علمًا يهتدى به إلى مناهج الصواب وطرقه

وجعل العلماء نجومًا في أفلاك الاهتداء وأفقه حمدًا يستوجب المزيد من جزيل

إحسانه ويقرب العبد إلى جميل رضوانه على ما وهب من مشكاة نوره

End of Treatise Four (f. 40v, lines 12-15):

... المشتري

أربعمائة وتسع وعشرون سنة والمريخ مائتين وأربعة وثمانون سنة

فإذا انتهت هذه المدة عادة (!) النوبة للشمس وكان مضى من مبدأ التأريخ الملكي خمسمائة

وثمانون سنة شمسية والله سبحانه وتعالى أعلم ...

Colophon of Treatise Four (f. 40v, lines 15-24):

... تمت رسالة الزيج على

أصول الرصد الجديد السمرقندي السلطان الغبيك خان بن شاه تيمور كوركان

أورخان رحمه الله تعالى كتبه الفقير إلى الله تعالى أحمد أبو

العز الأحمدي غفر الله له ولوالديه وللمسلمين أجمعين آمين

وذلك برسم فرع الشجرة الزكية وخلاصة السلسلة

المصطفوية وطراز العصابة الهاشمية

الحسيب النسيب السيد أحمد بن

وفاء نقيب الأشرف

بمصر حالًا

سنة 1172

Colophon after tables (f. 260v, line 1):

تم الزيج بحمد لله تعالى وعونه وحسن توفيقه والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على من لا نبي بعده

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Oriental Manuscripts

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Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

Codex; ff. i+260+ii

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https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100047914282.0x000001

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Languages:

Arabic

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1758

End Date:

1759

Date Range:

1172

Calendar:

Hijri qamari

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Western laid paper; watermarks visible on some folios (for a blank sheet with visible watermark see f. 35)

Dimensions: 255 x 180 mm leaf [frames around text: 174 x 107 mm; frames around tables 187 x 119 mm]

Foliation: Eastern Arabic foliation in pencil; British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: Misṭarah; 25 lines per page; vertical spacing 15 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh; the scribe is Aḥmad Abū al-‘Izz al-Aḥmadī (أحمد أبو العز الأحمدي, see f. 40v, lines 17-18)

Ink: Text in black ink, with treatise titles and punctuation in gold, chapter titles in gold or blue and headings in red; text in tables in black, red, blue, and orange

Decoration: Initial openings of each treatise framed in gold; tables and all other pages of text framed in red

Binding: Ottoman binding with flap; gold tooled medallion with pendants, gold frames of four bands on boards and flap; pink paper doublure

Condition: Minor insect damage

Marginalia: Very few

Seals: Ff. 1r, 40v, and 260v

Custodial History:

‘Uthmān Burhān (عثمان برهان): his seal without date, and his inscription with date 1233/1817-18 in which he is identified as the '[younger] brother of the Chief of the Scribes, Rātib Efendī' (قرنداش رئيس الكتاب راتب أفندي), perhaps Abū Bakr Rātib Efendī (d. 1799), Ottoman Ambassador to Vienna (f. 1r);
Fu’ād Salīm al-Ḥijāzī Pasha (فؤاد سليم الحجازي باشا), friend and correspondent of Muṣṭafá Kāmil Pasha (مصطفى كامل باشا, d. 1908; see Dunyā 1969): his seal, without date, with the legend الخزانة الحجازية (centre), وما أوتيتم من العلم إلا قليلًا (Qur’ān 17:85, above), فؤاد سليم الحجازي (below) (ff. 1r, 40v, and 260v).

Administrative Context:

Egypt

Publications:

Studies:

Aydüz, Salim, 'Riḍwān al-Falakī: Riḍwān Efendi ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Razzāz al-Falakī', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 970-71
Dunyā, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Ḥafiẓ, Rasā’il tā’rīkhīyah min Muṣṭafá Kāmil ilá Fu’ād Salīm al-Ḥijāzī (al-Qāhirah: Dār al-Nahḍah al-‘arabīyah, 1969)
Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.), (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), no. 1243, pp. 386-87

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Archives and Manuscripts

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