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Or 11207
- Record Id:
- 032-003463108
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003463108
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100086291878.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100100864284.0x000002
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
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- Or 11207
- Title:
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Sharḥ al-tadhkirat al-naṣīrīyah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah شرح التذكرة النصيرية في علم الهيئة ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī علي بن محمد بن علي الحسيني الجرجاني
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Commentary by ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī (علي بن محمد بن علي الحسيني الجرجاني; d. 1413), known as al-Sayyid al-Sharīf (السيد الشريف) on the Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hayʾah (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة; see British Library, MS Or. 11209) a treatise on the astronomical system presented in the Almagest of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168) by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274).
The commentary follows the structure of the text commented upon, divided into four books (ابواب) each subdivided into chapters (فصول). It contains numerous diagrams throughout, including of the so-called 'Tusi couple' (ff. 48v-49r [Book Two, Chapter Eleven]), which demonstrates how linear motion can result from circular motion.
The composition of the text was originally completed at Maragha in the early part of Dhū al-Qaʿdah 659/September-October 1261. The present copy was completed in a location described by the epithet Dār al-Amān (دار الأمان) on 19 Shawwāl 831/1 August 1428 by ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿUmar (عمر بن عبد العزيز بن عمر), from a copy completed in the middle of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 811/April-May 1409 in Shiraz (see colophon, f.100v transcribed below).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 1-4):
عليه نتوكل وبه نستعين
تبارك الذي جعل في السماء بروجا متخالفة المراتب والآثار وزيّنها بثواقب الكواكب متفاوتة الانوار
والانظار قدر فيها بحكمته البالغة سبعة سيارة كل في فلك سبحون وصور فوقها بقدرته الكاملة ثوابتا
دواره بحمد ربهم سبحون...
Ends (f.100v, lines 16-18):
...ولنختم
الكتاب ههنا حامدين لله تعالى ومصلين على نبيه المصطفى وعلى آله الطيبين الطاهرين وحسبنا
الله ونعم الوكيل
Authorial colophon (f. 100v, lines 18-22):
...وقع الفراغ عن بسط الكتاب وجل جمل هذه الابواب بذكره للاحباب
وبنصره لأولى الالباب على حسب ما اقتضاه الحال مع تزاحم الاشغال وتطرق الاختلال الى احوال
البال يوم الثلثاء من اواسط ذي الحخة سنة احدى عشرة وثمانمائة لمحروسة شيراز حميت
عن الاعواز وقد فرغ النص من تسويد المتن في اوائل
ذي القعدة سنة تسع وخمسين وستمائة ببلدة مراغة
Scribal colophon (f. 100v, lines 23-30 and tail edge margin):
تمت كتابة هذه النسخة الشريفة بعون الله وحسن
توفيقه في اليوم التاسع عشر من شهر شوال
ختم بالخير والاقبال في بلدة دار الأمان
حميت عن الخربان سنة احدى
وثلثين وثمانمائة
والحمد لله اولا
وآخرا ظاهرا
وباطنا
على يد اضعف عباد الله الاكبر عمر بن عبد العزيز بن عمر
الملقب بعالم رزقه الله علما نافعا
وعملا شافعا انه على ما يشاء قدير
وبالاجابة جدير
وحسبك قول الناس فيما ملكته
لقد كان هذا مرة لفلان
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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- 032-003463108
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-003463108
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. i+100+i
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100086291878.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1428
- End Date:
- 1428
- Date Range:
- 19 Shawwāl 831
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 263 x 173 mm leaf [181 x 112 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 29 lines per page; vertical spacing 16 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; the scribe is ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿUmar (عمر بن عبد العزيز بن عمر)
Ink: Black ink, with diagrams and the text commented upon overlined in red.
Decoration: None
Binding: Brown leather Islamic binding with pentagon flap, the front and back boards blind-tooled with central pendant roundels containing interlacing geometric motifs, within blind-tooled frames with corner pieces. The flap is similarly decorated with a central roundel.
Condition: Generally good; some water damage vertically across ff. 44-45, and to tail edge margins on ff. 84-92.
Marginalia: Numerous annotations and corrections throughout.
Seals: British Museum seal ff. 1v, 100v
- Custodial History:
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A number of erased and illegible ownership or reading inscriptions (f. 1r), including:
Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Luṭf Allāh (شيخ محمد ابن لطف الله): his inscription without date (f. 1r)
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Oskar Rescher (1884-1972), 10 May 1930
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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:
Dhanani, Alnoor, 'Jurjānī: ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAli al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī (al-Sayyid al–Sharīf)', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Thomas Hockey et al., eds., (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 603-04
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)