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IO Islamic 4419
- Record Id:
- 032-003477219
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003477219
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100099078300.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100106286114.0x000002
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 4419
- Title:
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Mukhtaṣar fī ṣanʿat baʿḍ al-ālāt al-raṣadīyah wa-al-ʿamal bihā مختصر في صنعة بعض الآلات الرصدية والعمل بها
Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين
and
Risālat mukhtaṣarah shāmilah kayfīyat inshāʾ al-jadwal wa-istikhrāj aʿmālihi رسالة مختصرة شاملة كيفية إنشاء الجدول واستخراج أعماله
- Scope & Content:
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Two treatises on the construction and use of astronomical instruments.
The manuscript was copied at Hyderabad Deccan in 1066/1656 for Qubād ibn ‘Abd al-Jalīl al-Ḥārithī al-Badakhshī (قباد بن عبد الجليل الحارثي البدخشي, d. 1083/1672-3), later known by the honorific title Diyānat Khān (ديانت خان, see f. 59v, lines 22-23 and Qubād's note in the margin of f. 18v in which he refers to himself as 'the owner of these folios' [مالك هذه الأوراق]). The text was copied by ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Nahī (? عبد الكريم النهي, see f. 59v, lines 18-23). The diagrams and tables were copied by Qubād ibn ‘Abd al-Jalīl himself (see his note on f. 1r and f. 59v, lines 22-24).
Contents:
1) Birjandī (برجندي), Mukhtaṣar fī ṣanʿat baʿḍ al-ālāt al-raṣadīyah wa-al-ʿamal bihā (مختصر في صنعة بعض الآلات الرصدية والعمل بها, ff. 1r-59v);
2) Risālat mukhtaṣarah shāmilah kayfīyat inshāʾ al-jadwal wa-istikhrāj aʿmālihi (رسالة مختصرة شاملة كيفية إنشاء الجدول واستخراج أعماله, ff. 68r-77r, 61r-67r, 79v-106r).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- 032-003477219
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- IO Islamic 4419, ff 1r-59v : Mukhtaṣar fī ṣanʿat baʿḍ al-ālāt al-raṣadīyah wa-al-ʿamal bihā مختصر في صنعة بعض…
IO Islamic 4419, ff 68r-77r, 61r-67r, 79v-106r : Risālat mukhtaṣarah shāmilah kayfīyat inshāʾ al-jadwal wa-istikhrāj aʿmālihi…
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. iii+106+ii
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- Languages:
- Arabic
Farsi
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1656
- End Date:
- 1656
- Date Range:
- 18 Ramadan 1066-2 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1066
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 265 x 60 mm leaf [185 x 95 mm written]
Foliation: Eastern Arabic foliation in black ink visible on some folios at front of volume; India Office Library foliation in pencil; midquire marks
Ruling: Misṭarah; 25 lines per page; vertical spacing 15 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; the scribe is ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Nahī (? عبد الكريم النهي, see f. 59v, lines 18-21)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and abjad numerals; diagrams and tables in black and red ink
Decoration: None
Binding: India Office half-leather binding
Condition: Severe insect damage; silk netting applied to ff. 1, 2, 6 and 106; large tidemark at head, smaller tidemark at tail
Marginalia: Few
Seals: India Office Library stamp (with date 30 October 1928, f. iii-r [third front flyleaf])
- Custodial History:
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- Qubād ibn ‘Abd al-Jalīl al-Ḥārithī al-Badakhshī (قباد بن عبد الجليل الحارثي البدخشي, d. 1083/1672-3), also known by the honorific title Diyānat Khān (ديانت خان): his inscription with date Shawwāl 1066/July-August 1656, written at Hyderabad Deccan (f. 1r); his note with date 1066/1655-6, written at Hyderabad Deccan (f. 18v); his collation note with date 15 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1066/25 August 1656, written at Hyderabad Deccan (f. 59v); his collation note with date 26 Ramadan 1066/8 July 1656 (f. 77r);
- Sulṭān Muḥammad Ṣafavī (سلطان محمد صفوى): his inscription with date 1221/1806-7 (f.1r).
- Administrative Context:
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Hyderabad Deccan
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)