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IO Islamic 622
- Record Id:
- 032-003693965
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003693965
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100106886576.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100148088361.0x000002
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- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 622
- Title:
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Sullam al-samāʾ (al-Risālah al-kamālīyah) (سلم السماء (الرسالة الكمالية
Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd كاشي، جمشيد بن مسعود
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An astronomical treatise on the sizes and distances of the planets and fixed stars by Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd Ibn Masʿūd ibn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī (غياث الدين جمشيد بن مسعود بن محمود الكاشي, d. 1429 or 1436).
The text was composed in 1407 and was dedicated to the vizier Kamāl al-Dīn Maḥmūd (كمال الدين محمود, see f. 1v, lines 27-28), after whom the treatise was also entitled the Treatise for Kamāl (الرسالة الكمالية). The present copy was completed at the end of Shawwāl 850/January 1447 (see colophon, f. 16v, lines 6-7, transcribed below).
After a short introduction (ff. 1v-2r), the treatise is divided into seven chapters (مقالات) and a conclusion (خاتمة) consisting of tables. The divisions of the text are listed on f. 2r:
- Chapter One: The mensuration of the Earth and related matters (المقالة الأولى في مساحة الأرض وما يتعلق بها, ff. 2r-4r);
- Chapter Two: The distances of the Moon and the extent of its diameter (المقالة الثانية في أبعاد القمر ومقدار قطره, ff. 4r-8r);
- Chapter Three: The distances of the Sun and the extent of its diameter (المقالة الثالثة في أبعاد الشمس ومقدار قطرها, ff. 8r-9v);
- Chapter Four: The distances of the two inferior [planets] and the extent of their diameters (المقالة الرابعة في أبعاد السفليين ومقدار قطريهما, ff. 9v-10r);
- Chapter Five: The distances of the superior planets and their diameters (المقالة الخامسة في أبعاد الكواكب العلوية وأقطارها, ff. 10v-11r);
- Chapter Six: The distance of the [sphere of the] fixed [stars] (المقالة السادسة في بعد الثوابت, ff. 11r-11v);
- Chapter Seven: The bodies of the stars (المقالة السابعة في أجرام الكواكب, ff. 11v-12r);
- Conclusion: Tables (الخاتمة في الجداول, ff. 12r-16v).
The treatise contains numerous diagrams and ten tables. Ff. 3 and 5 belong to an astronomical treatise in Persian and were inserted at a later date.
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-3):
الحمد لله الذي رفع السماء بغير عمد فزينها بمصابيح السيارات والثوابت ووضع الأرض الأنام
بلا ممدد فمكنهم فيها التمتع بمنابع ومنابت وجعل أحكام هيئة الأجرام الفلكية مع اختلاف أوضاعها...
Ends (f. 16v, lines 1-3):
وليكن هذا آخر ما أوردنا في هذه الرسالة الكمالية من اللطائف والدقائق والعوارف والحقائق
والمأمول من الإخوان أن يعين الرضاء والصدق وأن يطلعوا على شهور ذلل يصلحوه فإنه [في]
تعاونا لا تعاندا تعاضد الاتماسلا[؟] والحمد لله أولا وآخرا والصلوة على نبيه باطنا وظاهرا
Colophon (f. 16v, lines 4-8):
فرغت عن كتابة هذه الرسالة الشريفة وتقريرات
اللطيفة في وقت العصر يوم أمطار
الثلج في آخر شهر شوال سنة
خمسين وثمانمائة
الهلالية
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- 032-003693965
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
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Codex; ff. i+16+i
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- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100106886576.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1447
- End Date:
- 1447
- Date Range:
- Late Shawwāl 850
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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Material: Wove paper; ff. 3 and 5 are Western laid paper with watermarks; margin repairs use thick wove paper
Dimensions: 232 x 153mm leaf [170 x 91mm written]
Foliation: British Museum Library foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 29 lines per page; vertical spacing 17 lines per 10 cm
Script: Nastaʿlīq
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings and diagrams in red
Decoration: None
Binding: Brown leather binding with tooled border
Condition: Some waterstains; some fore edge margins have been removed (f. 1), or replaced (ff. 8 and 13)
Marginalia: Very few
Seals: ff. 1r and 16v
- Custodial History:
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- East India Company Library: its seal (ff. 1r and 16v);
- Taqī al-Dīn ibn Ghiyāth al-Dīn al-Ḥasanī (تقي الدين بن غياث الدين الحسني): his ownership inscription (f. 1r).
- Source of Acquisition:
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From the library at Seringapatam (Srirangapatna) of Tīpū Sulṭān (ٹیپو سلطان), Nawwāb Fatḥ ‘Alī Khān (نواب فتح علي خان) of Mysore (reg. 1782-99), transferred to Fort William College, Calcutta (Kolkata) in 1799, then deposited at the India Office in 1806 and 1937
- 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 755, pp. 219-20
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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. 802, pp. 269-71
- Schmidl, Petra G., 'Kāshī: Ghiyāth (al-Milla wa-) al-Dīn Jamshīd ibn Mas‘ūd ibn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī [al-Kashānī]', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 613-15
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)