Author
Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
Publication Date
25 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 912 (AH, Lunar Hijri)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Add MS 7492, ff 1r-48r
Record ID
vdc_100143915509.0x000004
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
25 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 912 (AH, Lunar Hijri)
Notes
An anonymous commentary on an astronomical treatise in thirty sections called
al-Mukhtaṣar fī maʿrifat al-taqāwīm
(Abstracts in the Knowledge of Taqawim), also known as
It also requires maʿrifat-i taqwīm
(Three Chapters on the Knowledge of Calendar) by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, d. 1274). The copy was completed at noon on Tuesday, 25 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 912/18 April 1507 by the scribe Dadah ibn Muṣṭafá (Dada ibn Muṣṭafá), in Amasya (Amasya, in modern-day Turkey).
A contents page (
verse
The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'.
of third unnumbered flyleaf) enumerates the thirty chapters and their page number according to the previous Eastern Arabic foliation in red, followed by a table of astrological relations and influences between the seven planets, zodiac signs, and the four elements (f. 2r). The text also contains cosmological diagrams (pp. 11r, 13v, 17r and 29v), sketches of constellations (pp. 25v-26v), and a further astrological table (ff. 34v).
Begins (f. 2v, lines 2-5):
Praise be to Allah who made the partial conditions in syphilis related to the conditions of fakia and
Call communications and prayers on the Prophet Muhammad who emphasized the general rules in the hearing
Minute with the following words and the words of the crown princes from the pure garlic
وأصحابه المشبهين بالنجوم الزاهرة أما بعد فإن المختصر الذي ألفه في التنجيم.
Ends (f. 48r, lines 14-17):
...and their involvement under trade is like the moon in the constellations
المنقلبة and with that suitable for sale cone moon spent on Saad
وللشرى کونه متصلا بصعد ولنقنع من الكلام بهذا القدر حامدین
لمالك القدر ومصلين على Sayyid al-Bashar
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 48r, lines 17-22):
... When the vacancy occurred
This version of the names (!) is a chapter in the hands of 'Abd al-Dha'if given by Ibn
Mustafa in the afternoon row on Thursday
And the twentieth of the month of Dhu al-Qa'dah
In the city of the tenth pilgrimage and thirty
بمقام أماسية
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
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 395 (I), p. 188
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Study on text commented upon:
Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu,
Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.)
, (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), no. 606, pp. 218 A17
