Publication Date
24 Friday I 836 (AH, Hijri Qamari)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 11210, ff 28r-109v
Record ID
vdc_100141479265.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
24 Friday I 836 (AH, Hijri Qamari)
Notes
A commentary on the preceding text,
al-Bāḥah fī ʿilmay al-ḥisāb wa-al-misāḥah
(Al-Baha fi the sciences of arithmetic and surveying), in which the text of the latter is also fully transcribed (Arithmetic: ff. 28r-87r; Surveying: ff. 87r-109r).
The text was completed on 25 Rabīʿ II 836/19 December 1432 and the transcription of the present copy was completed a month later on the night of 24 Jumādá I of the same year/16 January 1433 (see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 109r, lines 14-19, transcribed below).
The calculation of areas of different shapes are illustrated with red diagrams (f. 90v-103r).
Begins (f. 28v, line 2-5):
Praise be to God, who has counted everything in number and distributed the provisions of His creation in varying and inexhaustible ways
I never give Him much praise, and He does not leave much of the heart without making it obligatory for Him to meet Him
By reparation, he does not commit sins, whether major or minor, without committing them, as is attributed to the ten sins
Root...
Ends (f. 109r, lines 9-13):
...And God helped the one with the intention to the one who composed it even after he praised Kamal
I concluded it in the year six, after thirty-eight hundred, as we said
Praise be to God for everything and the best prayers and peace
Upon the Prophet, his family, and companions, whose names are recorded in the books
May God forgive whoever created it, whoever read it, and whoever saw it
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 109r, lines 14-19):
I finished this explanation on Friday, the twenty-fifth of the month of Rabi` al-Akhir of the year
One hundred and eighty-three hundred and from this copy is the night of Saturday, the twenty-fourth of Jumada
The first of the Sunnah, and he wrote with his mortal hand, appealing to the weakest and most needy of creation
To the pardon of Al-Haqq Ibrahim bin Omar bin Hassan Al-Ribat bin Ali bin Abi Bakr Al-Buqa’i Al-Shafi’i
May God be kind to him, his parents, and all Muslims, and benefit him with what he intended for him. He is near and responsive
To each other...
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