Author
his student Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Jūzjānī
Publication Date
1182 (AH, Hijri)
Subject
1
Type
kitap
Language
Persian
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Add MS 16659, ff 310v-342v
Record ID
vdc_100148048612.0x00000e
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
1182 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
Treatise on the mathematical sciences (geometry, astronomy, arithmetic and music) excerpted from the works of Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (Abu Ali Al-Hussein bin Abdullah), known as Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), edited and translated into Persian by his student Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Jūzjānī (Abu Ubayd Abd al-Wahid ibn Muhammad al-Jawzjani). The treatise is meant as a supplement to Ibn Sīnā's
Wisdom for ʿAlāʾ
(The Wisdom of Ala'i), more commonly known by its Persian title
The Book of Wisdom for ʿAlāʾ
(Danshnameh Alai), which presented in Persian his teachings on logic, metaphysics, and physics.
Blank spaces have been left in the text for diagrams that were never added.
Contents:
Treatise on the Elements of Geometry (Treatise on Geometry, ff. 310v-320v);
Treatise on the Science of Observation and Organization of the Heavens (Treatise on the Science of Observation and Organization of the Heavens, ff. 320v-332v);
Treatise on the Science of Arithmetic (Treatise on Arithmetic, ff. 332v-338r);
Treatise on the Science of Music (Treatise on the Science of Music, ff. 338r-342v).
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 978, pp. 447-51
Rieu, Charles,
Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum
, 3 vols. (London: The British Museum, 1879-83), vol. 2, pp. 438-39
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Studies:
Dhanani, Alnoor, 'Jūzjānī: Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Jūzjānī', in
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
, edited by Thomas Hockey et al., (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 604-05
Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu,
Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.)
(Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), no. 318, p. 128
