Author
ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥammādūsh al-Jazāʾirī
Publication Date
1199 (AH, Hijri)
Subject
1
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Add MS 9598, ff 158v-181r
Record ID
vdc_100157836372.0x00000b
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
1199 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
Treatise on using the celestial globe by ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ḥammādūsh al-Jazāʾirī (Abd al-Razzaq ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Hamadoush al-Jazairi, b. 1695), consisting of an introduction and 90 sections (chapter).
The present copy was completed in 1199/1784-5 by an unnamed scribe (see f. 181r, line 10 below).
In the preface the author mentions that ever since he came into possession of a celestial globe, he could find no instructions for its use other than those presented in the seventh
bāb
of a work on the subject by al-Marrākushī (المراكشي) and so resolved to write his own contribution (f. 158v, lines 7-9). The work referred to is
Jamiʿ al-mabādiʾ wa-al-ghāyāt is the knowledge of al-m
īqāt
(Collection of Principles and Endings in the Science of Meteors), an encyclopaedia of practical astronomy and astronomical instruments written by Sharaf al-Din Abū 'Alī al-Ḥasan ibn 'Alī ibn 'Umar al-Marrākushī (Sharaf al-Din Abu Ali al-Hassan bin Ali ibn Omar al-Marakshi, fl. The section referred to is the seventh
bāb
(Chapter Seven on the Quality of Working with Instruments) of Book Three: Using Instruments (see London, British Library Or 5831, ff. 215-32), which also consists of 91 sections (on the relationship between these two works, see Saʿd Allāh, 1990).
Begins (f. 158v, lines 2-4):
Says Abdul Razzaq ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad
Ibn Hamadush Kan (?) Allahu Amen
Praise be to Allah, Who made the son of the world a proof of His Oneness and a source of sight and revelation
Hearts of the people of knowledge and made the heavens the stars and the earth glasses and made the skies two
Ends (f. 181r, lines 7-10):
...Peace be upon the Muslims and praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds
وصحبه وسلم تسليمًا اللهم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم
Praise be to Allah and Hassan Aun
Sana'a 1199
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 407, xi, p. 194
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Studies:
Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu,
Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c
.)
,
(Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), pp. 241-43 (no. 696).
Saʿd Allāh, Abū al-Qāsim, 'Risālah fī al-kūrah al-falakīyah mansūbah ilá Ibn Hamādūsh al-Jazāʾirī (al-qarn al-thamānī ʿashr mīlādī)',
Annales de l'universit
é d'Alger
, 5 (al-Jazāʾir, 1990), pp. 17-24
[Summary of al-Marrākushī's text]: Sédillot, Louis-Amélie, 'Mémoire sur les instruments astronomiques des Arabes',
Méms. de l’Acad. Royale des Insers, et Belles-Lettres de l’Inst. de France,
1 (1844), pp. 1-229 (Reprint ed. by Fuat Sezgin, Frankfurt an Main: Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften, 1989.)