Author
Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Khafrī
Publication Date
18th century (CE, Gregorian)
Subject
1
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
214 x 124 mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IO Islamic 1715
Record ID
vdc_100046777069.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
18th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Supercommentary by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Khafrī (Shams al-Dīn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khafri, d. ca 1550) on the
Memoir on Astronomy
(The Book of Remembrance in the Authority) by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (Nasir al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Tusi; d. 1274). The text is presented as a completion of an earlier
Commentary on Naṣīr's Memoir
(Explanation of the Nusayri Tadhkirah) by ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAli al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī (Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ali al-Husayni al-Jurjani; d. 1413), known as al-Sayyid al-Sharīf (The Noble Master). The composition of the text was completed on 4 Muḥarram 932/21 October 1525 (see Saliba, 1994, p. 19).
The text contains numerous diagrams, and many unfilled spaces left blank for further diagrams especially towards the back of volume. Likewise, only three of the many spaces left blank for rubricated section headings have been filled in (see ff. 65v, 90r and 204v), and the rest have been left blank (see ff. 18v, 49v, 94r, 114r, 118v, 131v, 138v, 145v, 151r, 177v, 181v, 189v, 195r, 229v, 232v, 237v, 240v, 243r, 246r, 248v, 251v, 252v and 257r).
The copy was completed on 24 Dhū al-Ḥijja by Ghulām Muḥammad (Ghulam Muhammad) neglects to mention the year (see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 258r, lines 10-12, transcribed below). The year is not mentioned in the
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
as it currently appears, but seems to have been written, then erased and overwritten with the words 'after Friday prayers' (after Friday prayers).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-5):
You are exalted, O Possessor of the highest throne, and how great is your status. Blessed are you, O Creator of the Most High heavens
How great is your authority, may the peace and blessings of God be upon the master of Al-Wari and his family, Anwar Malik Al-Huda, as for what follows
So the poor says to God, the rich, Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Al-Khufri, when the sciences are most elucidated and most reliable
A statement is the science of form through which the secrets of creative things are revealed and the conditions of subjects become clear
Ends (f. 258r, lines 6-9):
...This is the end of the known dimensions and quantities. As for what follows
The convexity of your greatest orbit is known only to God Almighty, in some versions, and let us conclude the book here, Hamid.
May God Almighty bless us and pray for His chosen Prophet and his good and pure family. God is sufficient for us.
Yes agent
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 258r, lines 10-12):
There has been a void in completing the sequel that Shams al-Din al-Khafri compiled as an explanation of the reminder from his works.
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi at the hand of the poor to God the rich, Ghulam Muhammad, on the twenty-fourth
The month of Dhul-Hijjah is Friday, a time after the Friday prayer
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Loth, Otto,
A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the
India Office
The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors.
(London: Printed by order of the Secretary of State for India in Council, 1877), Item 747, p. 218
Edinme Kaynağı
From the library of Richard Johnson (1753-1807), incorporated into the collection of the East India House in 1807.
Köken
East India Company Library, its seal (ff. 1r and 258v);
Three semi-legible seals, one said by Loth to belong to 'a servant of ‘Ālamghīr' (f. 1r).
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition and translation on text commented upon:
Ragep, F. Jamil,
Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī's Memoir on Astronomy (al-Tadhkira fī ʿilm al-hayʾa)
, 2 Vols., (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1993)
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. 936, pp. 313-14
Saliba, George, 'A Sixteenth-Century Arabic Critique of Ptolemaic Astronomy: The Work of Shams al-Dīn al-Khafrī',
Journal for the History of Astronomy
25, (1994), pp. 15-38
Saliba, George, 'Ḵafri, Šams-al-Din',
Encyclopaedia Iranica
, XV/4 (2010) pp. 341-43
Cooper, Glen M., 'Khafrī: Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Khafrī al-Kāshī', in
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 263-64
