Publication Date
1786
Publication Place
-
[1786-1789]
Subject
Astronomy, Arabic—Tables—Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton, tables (documents), diagrams
Type
kitap
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Library
Princeton University Library
Library Asset ID
9953057893506421
Record ID
dcn583z7010
Library Location
Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 211Y
Date
1786-01-01 T00:00:00 AH/1789-12-31 T:Khasz:Khasz — 1786-1789
Notes
Collection of short treatises and excerpts on astronomy. | Ms. codex., Title supplied by cataloger., Contains tables, charts, and diagrams. Kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms: reading: "Kīkataj") on first fol., Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 150 + ii ; Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals., Layout: 23 lines per page; frame-ruled., Description: Written in medium small Maghribī script in black ink; rubricated., Origin: [Zīj] Copy completed at the beginning of [Dhū al-]Ḥijjah 1200 [Dec. 1786] (colophon, fol. 25a) -- [Zīj Sanjaq Dār] Copy completed on Thursday, the night of 10 Jumādá al-Awwal 1203 [Feb. 6, 1789] (fol. 29b)., Incipit: [Explanation of the Zij of Sanjak Dar] Praise be to God for the one who invented the course of the planets with the orbits of rotation and ruled and made them revolve with carriers on orbits modifying the course and ruled against them... And prayers and peace be upon the one whose rank was raised to the height of the scope of the prophets and messengers and his companions who modified the laws of religion after him... As for what follows, he says, “Fakir, the mercy of his Lord, hoping for His apparent and hidden kindness to Ali ibn Mami al-Hanafi is the month of Karbasa -- [marriage] Praise be to God and whoever is bound to what the one seeking the making of modification needs is what Ibn al-Khatib al-Qastini, known as Ibn Qunfud, said in the first chapter of the index of his marriage, where he said in the first chapter on the names of the signs, the division of the astronomy, the proportion of each sign of its parts, and knowledge of the disposition of multiplication -- [marriage of Sanjak Dar] Praise be to God, who made the sun a light and the moon a light and determined its stages. So that you may learn the number of years, calculations, and prayer... And then here is a summary that I summarized from the new marriage attributed to Sultan Al-Ag Bey -- [The Secret of the Hidden] Praise be to God. If you want to know connection and separation and what is not mixed, you must look at the position of the moon and the position of the planets -- [Arjoza] Praise be to God alone in reading a copy of this rajaz, these verses. This is what he said to Abu Ali, the son of Abu Hussein the Sufi, in the Summer of the Stars and the Planets, Explicit: [Explanation of the marriage of Sanjak Dar] What is great is that He brings us to a good conclusion, for deeds with seals end with the praise of God and His good help, and praise be to God first and last, and may God’s blessings and peace be upon our master and our Lord Muhammad and upon his family. Praise be to God. A benefit found in the treasures of the King Al-Kamil with his plan in knowing the endowment and the month of Ramadan... He followed this table and found that it expels and reverses. It ended with praise of God and his good help. May God’s blessings and peace be upon our master and our Lord Muhammad and peace be upon him. [Table: Names] Completed The Arab months] -- [Marriage] If they agree, then it is valid, otherwise test it again and know that. And here is what I represented of the marriage of (?) the Constantine orator known as Ibn Qunfud, may God have mercy on him -- [Marriage of Sanjak Dar] He responded to the history of Christ three hundred and eleven years and ninety-two days. The history of Alexander is obtained, and God knows best. It ended with the praise and good help of God -- [The Secret of the Hidden] Evaluating the correct marriage, so my emphasis on it, and God knows best, and it is from the handwriting of Sayyid Hamouda Idris, may God be pleased with him, Amen -- [Arjuza] The Bedouin know it as Hula, meaning it is abandoned and abandoned. Our father reminds us in his books, so let us make it from his Lord tomorrow. The Arjuza has been completed in the science of the fixed stars, thanks to God and His good help. 1. fol. 1b-21b: [Sharḥ Zīj Sanjaq Dār] / Aḥmad ibn Māmī al-Ḥanafī. Commentary on the introduction of the Zīj by Sanjaq Dār, a Tunisian recension of the Zīj of Ulugh Beg. The text is followed on follo. 21b by a fāʼidah on the names of the months in Arabic, followed by a table., 2. fol. 22a-25b: Zīj / Ibn Qunfudh. Excerpts from a work on the determination of the position of the stars, with one table followed by another excerpt attributed to the same Ibn Qunfudh., 3. fol. 25b-101a: Zīj Sanjaq Dār / Muḥammad al-Sharīf Sanjaq Dār. Zīj for longitude 41:45° (Tunis), based on the parameters of Ulugh Beg, in two parts After the tables are several fāʼidah (fol. 96b-99a), followed by tables (fol. 99b-101a). One of the fāʼidah is described as the Tarbīʻ al-falak by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Akhḍarī, from his Sirāj ʻilm al-falak (fol. 98a-99a)., 4. fol. 101b-118b: al-Sirr al-Maktūm fī aḥkām al-nujūm [Excerpts] / Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī. Several excerpts on astronomy/logy, with figures and tables. Before the tables are several additions (fāʼidah), the last one apparently written by another hand, with a text attributed to Ḥamūdah Idrīs., 5. fol. fol. 119a-130a: Urjūzat Abī Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān... al-Ṣūfī fī al-kawākib al-thābitah fī al-ṣuwar / Abū ʻAlī ibn Abi al-Ḥusayn al-Ṣūfī. Versified treatise on the fixed stars., 6. fol. 130a-149b: Faṣl fī maʻrifat al-ṭāliʻ min al-kawākib... [etc]. Several short excerpts on astronomy, some identified as being from Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī dhikr al-amṣār(?) wa-al-aqṭār wa-al-buldān (see fol. 131b), followed by figures and tables on fol. 134b-142a: ṣūrat Jabal al-Qamar wa-al-anhār allatī takhruju minhu (fol. 134b); jadwal li-maʻrifat burj al-Shams bi-wāsiṭat al-shuhūr al-ʻajamīyah (fol. 135a); sūrat al-Āfāq al-thamānīyah al-muḥītah bi-Makkah min al-jīhāt al-thamānīyah wa-mā wālahā min al-buldān (fol. 135b); dāʼirah fī maʻrifat jihat al-qiblah ilá jamīʻ al-buldān wa-al-aqālīm... (fol. 136a), etc. These tables are followed on fol. 142b-149b, by more short excerpts, mainly on astronomy. | Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942. | Mach, R. Yahuda, 4873, 5031, 5032, King, D. A Survey of the scientific manuscripts in the Egyptian national library (1986), F54, F53., King, D. Fihris, vol. 2, p. 135 (2/2/5); vol. 2, p. 47 (1/3/2), Sezgin, F. Gas, Bd VI, 232
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