Author
Sharaf al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Umar al-Jaghmīnī al-Khwārizmī
Publication Date
15th century (CE, Gregorian)
Subject
1
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Add MS 23398, ff 66v-86r
Record ID
vdc_100040633808.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
15th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Popular elementary textbook of astronomy by Sharaf al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Umar al-Jaghmīnī al-Khwārizmī (Sharaf al-Dīn Mahmoud ibn Muhammad ibn Umar al-Jaghmini al-Khwarizmi; fl. early 13th century).
The text contains the following diagrams:
(1) The cosmos (f. 67r);
(2) The spheres of the Sun, the stars, Mercury and the Moon (ff. 68v-69r);
(3) Unfilled space left blank for a diagram (f. 84r).
Begins (f. 66v, lines 2-5):
Praise be to God for His bounties, and blessings be upon His Prophet Muhammad and his family, says the poor Abdullah, to the mercy of God.
Mahmoud bin Muhammad bin Omar Al-Jaghmini, may God grant him success. I wrote this book in the form of a scholar’s reminder
After me, for every scholar, I sought summary with explanation and condensation of words into simplification
Meanings according to the possibility and its name, summarized in the form...
Ends (f. 86r, lines 12-17):
...and I have done my best
Revealing the meanings and revealing them, while condensing the words and shortening them into strings
Compliance and service while avoiding boredom and crowding, and perhaps this amount
What you mentioned is sufficient for you to get what you wanted, and it is sufficient for what the signs showed
To him, it is better for me to limit myself to it. Let this be the conclusion of the book, and God knows best
Correctly
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 1343, p. 621
Seçilmiş kaynakça
German translation:
Rudloff, G. and A. Hochheim, 'Die Astronomie des Maḥmûd ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿOmar al‐Ǵaġmînî',
Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft
47 (1893) pp. 213-75
Studies:
Ragep, Sally P., 'Jaghmīnī: Sharaf al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Jaghmīnī al-Khwārizmī', in
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 584-85
Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu,
Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th
-
19th c.)
, (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003) no. 547, pp. 198-99
Suter, Heinrich, 'Die Mathematiker und Astronomen der Araber und ihre Werke',
Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der mathematischen Wissenschaften
10 (1900) pp. 164-65
Sezgin, Fuat,
Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums
, vol. 5 (Leiden: Brill, 1974). p. 115
