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Add MS 9599, ff 1r-7r
- Record Id:
- 040-004368893
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003464769
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100166181728.0x000001
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- Add MS 9599, ff 1r-7r
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Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-asṭurlāb رسالة في العمل بالأسطرلاب
Mizzī, Shams [Zayn] al-Dīn Muḥammad مزي، شمس [زين] الدين محمد
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Treatise in ten parts (فصل) and a conclusion (خاتمة) on using the astrolabe by Zayn al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Mizzī (زين الدين محمد المزي, d. 1349).
A title page (f. 1r) reads as follows:
هذه رسالة الأسطرلاب للشيخ
الإمام العلامة زين الدين عبد
الرحمن المزي الحنفي رحمه الله تعلى (!)
A note in the mutilated gutter margin of this title page names Ṭāhir [...] al-Makkī (طاهر [...] المكي) and records something (perhaps the purchase of the manuscript) having taken place 'in the Sūq al-Balāṭ' (في سوق البلاط ; f. 1r) in Tunis.
The text is followed by a brief note giving a fanciful etymology of the Greek word astrolabe, which mentions Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus, here spelt بطليموس الفالوذي, d. c 186) and Kūshyār ibn Labbān (كوشيار ابن لبان, fl. 961).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-3):
الحمد لله الكريم الوهاب الرحيم التواب الذي هدى من شاء فسلك به طريق الصواب
وأضل من شاء فوقع في الشبه والارتياب وأطلع من شاء على ما شاء ويسر به الأسباب
Ends (f. 7r, lines 7-10):
... وإذ قد أتينا على جملة ما يحتاج إليه في العمل بالأسطرلاب مختصرًا
وضربنا على كثير مما لا يفتقر إلى ميقاتي إليه كصرح (!) الشعاعي وتحاويل سني
العالم وتحاويل طوالع المواليد وفروع كثيرة يسنتغنى عنها ويفهم أكثرها
من نحو ما ذكرناه فإليك ذالك ...
Colophon (f. 7r, lines 10-11):
... آخر الرسالة وبالله المستعان وهو حسبنا ونعم
الوكيل وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم تسليمًا
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003464769
040-004368893 - Is part of:
- Add MS 9599 : Collection of Arabic texts on astronomy, astrology and related subjects
Add MS 9599, ff 1r-7r : Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-asṭurlāb رسالة في العمل بالأسطرلابMizzī, Shams [Zayn] al-Dīn… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003464769[0001]/040-004368893
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Ff. 1r-7r
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1800
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Finding Aids:
- Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), item 977, p. 444
- Publications:
- Studies:
- Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.) (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), p. 246, no. 715, item A1
- Charette, François 'Mizzī: Zayn al-Dīn [Shams al-Dīn] Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Mizzī al-Ḥanafī', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al., (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 792-93
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Kūshyār, 961
Mizzī, Shams [Zayn] al-Dīn Muḥammad, 1291-1349
Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy), Claudius, astronomer, c 90-c 168 - Subjects:
- Astrolabes--Early works to 1800
Astrology--Early works to 1800
Astronomical instruments
Astronomy--Early works to 1800