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IO Islamic 1148, ff 1v-63r
- Record Id:
- 040-002501133
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002487824
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100022506199.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023667258.0x000001
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 1148, ff 1v-63r
- Title:
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تحرير المجسطي Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī
طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad
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Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī''s (AD 1201-1274) edition (تحرير) of the Arabic translation of the Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD c 90-c 168), thought to have been translated by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (AD c 809-873).
The copy was completed on 6 Muḥarram 722/25 January 1322, at Sulṭānīyah (in the Zanjan province in the north-west of modern Iran) by Ḥamzah ibn ‘Alī ibn Ḥamzah al-Qazwīnī al-Bayhaqī, known as Sa‘d al-Khurāsānī (حمزة بن على بن حمزة القزويني البيهقي المشهور بسعد الخراساني; see colophon on f. 62r; transcribed below). Two notes next to the colophon, both in the hand of the copyist, state that his exemplar was a copy of the author''s own copy, and that he collated his copy in Muḥarram 723/January-February 1323, at Sulṭānīyah, in the Rashīdīyah Madrasah.
Almost no diacritical points are use, so the following transcriptions are imprecise.
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-5):
الحمد لله مبداء كال مبادئ غاية كل غايب ومفيض كل خير وولي كل هدانة ...
وبعد فقد كنت برهة من الزمان عازمًا على أن أحرّر لنفسي ولسائر طلبة العلم من الإخوان كتاب المجسطي المنسوب إلى
بطلميوس القلوذي ...
Ends (f. 62r, lines )
... وأقول وإذ وقفني الله تعلاى لا تمام ما قصد به وإنجاز ما وعد به فلا قطع الكلام حامدًا له
على الأية ومصليًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه وبردة من آله واحتابه
Colophon (f. 62r, lines )
... وقد اتفق الفراغ من انتساخه يوم الثلثاء
لست خلون من محرّم الحرام عام اثنتين وعشرين وسبعمائة هجرية بمدينة سلطانية أقار الله تعالى برهان بابها بأحواج عباد الله
حالي إلى رحمته حمزة بن على بن حمزة القزويني البيهقي المشهور بسعد الخراساني سائلًا من ربه الهدانة إلى سواء الطريق والتوفيق
لكشف المحصلات بالتحقيق أنّه ولي الإجابة
This text is followed by two short supplements (ff. 62v-63r), both related to Ptolemy''s Almagest. The first is inscribed في تشكل الزهرة في الفصل الثاني من المقالة العاشرة من المجسطي (Fī tashakkulal-zuharah fī al-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqālah al-‘āshirah min al-Majisṭī, ''On the formation of Venus in Part two of Chapter ten of the Almagest''; f. 62v, line 1).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002487824
040-002501133 - Is part of:
- IO Islamic 1148 : Three treatises on astronomy and geometry
IO Islamic 1148, ff 1v-63r : تحرير المجسطي Taḥrīr al-Majisṭīطوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد Ṭūsī,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002487824[0001]/040-002501133
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IO Islamic 1148
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- ff. 1v-63r
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022506131.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1322
- End Date:
- 1322
- Date Range:
- 6 Muḥarram 722
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
- Era:
- AH
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Edition of original Greek text:
- Claudii Ptolemaei Opera quae exstant omnia,. Vol. 1, pt 1, Syntaxis mathematica. Libros I-VI continens, ed. by Johan Ludvig Heiberg (Leipzig: Teubner, 1898)
- Claudii Ptolemaei Opera quae exstant omnia,. Vol. 1, pt 2, Syntaxis mathematica. Libros VII-XIII continens, ed. by Johan Ludvig Heiberg (Leipzig: Teubner, 1903)
Translation of original Greek text:
- Ptolemy''s Almagest, trans. by G.J. Toomer (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998)
Study of Arabic versions:
- Kunitzsch, Paul, Der Almagest: die Syntaxi Mathematica des Claudius Ptolemaus in arabisch-lateinischer Überlieferung (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1974)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
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