Author
ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAli al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī
Publication Date
15th century (CE, Gregorian)
Subject
1
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Add MS 23398, ff 2r-65v
Record ID
vdc_100040633808.0x000002
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
15th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Commentary 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 (Al-Sayyid al-Sharif), on the
al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī ‘ilm al-hay’ah al-basīṭah
(Summary of simple body science), an elementary textbook of astronomy by Sharaf al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Umar al-Jaghmīnī al-Khwārizmī (Sharaf al-Dīn Mahmoud ibn Muhammad ibn Umar al-Jaghmini al-Khwarizmi; fl. early 13th century). The text contains numerous diagrams.
This copy is defective at the beginning, with the text starting abruptly near the beginning of the text (cf. British Library, Add. MS 23397, f. 4v, line 19).
The text contains the following diagrams:
(1) The cosmos (f. 5r);
(2) The spheres of the Sun and Venus (f. 9r);
(3) The spheres of Mercury and the Moon (f. 9v);
(4) An epicycle (f. 26r);
(5) Apparent motion of the stars (?) (f. 27r);
(6) Apparent motion of the stars (?) (f. 28r);
(7) A planetary circuit with epicycles (f. 33r);
(8) The climes (f. 47v);
(9) Eclipse (f. 61r);
(10) Azimuth of the
qiblah
(f. 62r).
Begins (f. 2r, lines 1-3; defective at beginning):
Intended by the essence in this art, or agreed upon by the intended, since what is outside of them has no purpose attached to it
Of these, the second is the introduction, and the first is related to astronomical objects, which is the first article
Or racism, which is the second article, and clarifying this position calls for more explanation
Ends (f. 65v, lines 11-14):
...Then they multiplied that by twelve to make the days of the lunar year
The terminology is three hundred and fifty-four days, five and sixteen days, and this
The year is a point (!) from the real solar year with ten days and twenty hours
Approximately half an hour, and God knows the true situation, and God (!) is the fate and the situation
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 65v, lines 16-17):
Complete the explanation
Thank God
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 1343, p. 621
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Studies:
Dhanani, Alnoor, 'Jurjānī: ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Ali al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī (al-Sayyid al–Sharīf)' in
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. , 603-04
Ragep, Sally P., 'Jaghmīnī: Sharaf al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Jaghmīnī al-Khwārizmī' in
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 584-85
