Author
the scribe ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī
Publication Date
24 Friday I 1070 (AH, Hijri)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 5408, ff 138r-147r
Record ID
vdc_100139136389.0x000002
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
24 Friday I 1070 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
Treatise, also known under the title
Hidāyat al-ʿāmil ilá al-rubʿ al-kāmil
(Guiding the worker to the perfect quarter) on the workings of the quadrant, consisting of an introduction and fifteen chapters (
bāb
s).
The copy was completed on 24 Jumādá I 1070/6 February 1660 (see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 138v, lines 14-16, transcribed below) by the scribe ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī (Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Zayn al-Din al-Amili). Next to the
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
A reading certificate of Zayn al-Dīn ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad (Zain al-Dīn ibn Ali ibn Ahmad) dated mid-Shaʿbān 960/late July 1553 was copied from the source manuscript (Image of my grandfather’s handwriting, f. 147r, fore edge margin).
Beginnings (f. 138v, lines 2-3):
Praise be to God, who has drawn on the pages of His creations the conclusive signs and the paths of the fixed planets
In the surroundings of the guided one, with omens and twilights...
Ends (f. 147r, lines 13-14):
...and in this
Destiny is sufficient for whoever God protects, and praise be to God as He deserves His praise and prayers upon Muhammad and his family
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 147r, lines 14-16):
...written by him
The least of the servants is Ali bin Muhammad bin Al-Hasan bin Zain Al-Din Al-Amili, may God forgive their bad deeds on the fourteenth of the month
Jumada al-Awwal in the year 1070
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Ellis, A.G. and Edward Edwards,
A Descriptive List of the Arabic Manuscripts Acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum since 1894
(London: British Museum, 1912), p. 40
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), no. 873, pp. 293-98 (text A16 on p. 296)
De Young, Gregg, 'Sibṭ al-Māridīnī: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Abū ʿAbd Allāh Badr [Shams] al-Dīn al-Miṣrī al-Dimashqī', in
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007), p. 1058
