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Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 1r-16r
- Record Id:
- 040-003375925
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003375923
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100043782578.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100065379120.0x000001
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 1r-16r
- Title:
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al-Taṣrīḥ fī sharḥ al-tashrīḥ التصريح في شرح التشريح
Lāhūrī, Imām al-Dīn ibn Luṭf Allāh لاهوري، إمام الدين بن لطف الله
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Commentary by Imām al-Dīn ibn Luṭf Allāh al-Muhandis al-Lahūrī thumma al-Dihlawī (إمام الدين بن لطف الله المهندس اللاهوري ثم الدهلوي, d. 1732?) on the Anatomy of the Spheres (تشريح الأفلاك), a summary of theoretical astronomy (علم الهيئة) by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي, d. 1621). The commentary was composed in 1103/1691-92 (see. f. 1v, line 9).
The text contains spaces left blank for diagrams none of which has been filled in.
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-5):
تبارك الدي جعل في السماء بروجًا وجعل فيها سراجًا وقمرًا منيرًا و أرسل إلينا محمدًا رسولًا داعيًا
إليه بإذنه بشيرًا ونذيرًا أما بعد فيقول العبد الضعيف إمام الدين ابن لطف الله
المهندس اللاهوري ثم الدهلوي إن هذا شرح تشريح الأفلاك للعلامة الفهامة
الشيخ بهاء الدين الآملي ...
Ends (f. 16r, lines 14-15):
... فنسبة ارتفاع أعظم الجبال إلى
قطر الأرض أقل من نسبة سبع عرض شعيرة إلى ذراع
Colophon (f. 16r, lines 16-17):
من إفادات مولانا وأوستاذنا الشيخ الحبل المتين مولانا رفيع الملة والدين بدظله (؟)
الوالي (؟)
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003375923
040-003375925 - Is part of:
- Delhi Arabic 1937B : Four texts on astronomy
Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 1r-16r : al-Taṣrīḥ fī sharḥ al-tashrīḥ التصريح في شرح التشريحLāhūrī, Imām al-Dīn… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003375923[0001]/040-003375925
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Delhi Arabic 1937B
- Record Type (Level):
- File
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Ff. 1r-16r
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100065379120.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1800
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 19th century
- Era:
- CE
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Edition:
- Lāhūrī, Imām al-Dīn ibn Luṭf Allāh, Taṣrīḥ fī sharḥ al-Tashrīḥ ([Lucknow]: al-Maṭbaʿah al-Jaʿfarīyah, 1263 [1846-47])
Studies:
- ‘Abbās, Dalāl, Bahā’ al-Dīn al-‘Āmilī : adīban, wa-faqīhan, wa-‘āliman (Bayrūt: Dār al-Ḥiwār, 1995)
- Hashemipour, Behnaz, '‘Āmilī: Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 42-43
- Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.) (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), p. 37r, no. 1179
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)