Author
ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Masʿūd al-Maḥbūbī al-Bukhārī al-Ḥanafī
Publication Date
one-Rajab 823 (AH, Hijri Qamar)
Subject
1
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
173 x 125 mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Add MS 7484
Record ID
vdc_100046067744.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
one-Rajab 823 (AH, Hijri Qamar)
Notes
Commentary by ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Masʿūd al-Maḥbūbī al-Bukhārī al-Ḥanafī (Ubayd Allah ibn Masoud al-Mahboubi al-Bukhari al-Hanafi, d. 1346 or 47) known as Ṣadr al-Sharīʿa al-Thānī (the second issuer of Sharia) on his own treatise on astronomy. The treatise, without commentary, formed the third and final part of his encyclopaedia of sciences known as the
Adjustment of the Sciences
(Modification of Sciences). The composition of the text was completed at noon on Wednesday 6 Rabī‘ II 747/26 July 1346, in the shrine or district of Shara‘ābād (Maqam Sharā’abad) in Bukhārā (see author’s
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 70r, lines 18-19, transcribed below).
The lemmata of the text commented upon are indicated by the abbreviation م (= متن), and the commentary is indicated by س or ش (= شرح).
The title page (f. 1r) reads:
Book
Amendment to the authority
Khan Sadr al-Sharia
Bukhari
The copy was completed at Bukhārā in mid-Rajab 823/mid-July 1420 by Aḥmad b. Sir?
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 70r, transcribed below).
The text contains numerous diagrams, and some spaces have been left blank for diagrams that were never added (see e.g. f. 68v). A slip of paper containing two diagrams of planetary revolutions has been bound into the volume as f. 18.
This copy was used as the primary witness for the edition prepared by Dallal (1995, see p. 4).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):
M Praise be to God who decorated the sky with constellations after He had perfected its construction, and He said, “We have beautified it, and it has no secrets.”
And blessings be upon His Messenger, who made a luminous lamp, and from His light is luminous, and made his family, his family, and his companions stars.
And the devils of mankind shall be stoned...
Ends (f. 70r, lines 16-18):
If the western height is that amount, a log is erected or a plumb is hung, so the shadow of the log or the shadow of the plumb line
It is the zenith of the qibla. This work does not need explanation, rather it requires knowledge of the astrolabe, and after knowing the work, it is easy, by God
It is a laxative for every eye...
Author's
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 70r, lines 18-19):
... تم تصنيفه ظهيرة يوم الأربعاء السادس من ربيع الآخر سنة سبع وأربعين
Seven hundred in the shrine of Shariaabad from the city of Bukhara. May God Almighty protect them, along with all other Muslim countries, from calamities and fears.
Scribe's
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 70r, written diagonally to main text block, below author's
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
):
تمت كتابته على يد العبد المذنب الجاني
أحمد بن سراج الدين الغجدواني
In the middle of Rajab in the year 823
بفاخرة بخارا صينت عن البلايا
وهي من ممالك السلطان الأعظم
والخاقان المكرم العالم بدقائق العلوم والحكم
معين الدين ظهير الدولة أميرزاده
Big Corgan increased his amendment
His compassion is based on the foundation of faith
From him and his being
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 400, pp. 190
Edinme Kaynağı
Purchased from Mary Rich (née Mackintosh), widow of Claudius James Rich (1786-1821),
Political Resident
A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
in Baghdad (1808-21), 25 March 1825
Köken
Ja‘far al-Ḥusayn (جعفر الحسين): his inscription, dated Wednesday 8 Jumādá II 1015/11 October 1606 (f. 1r);
al-Ḥāj Muḥammad ibn ‘Umar (الحاج محمد بن عمر): his inscription, dated 7 Muḥarram 1165/26 November 1751, and his seal without visible date (f. 1r; the name in the inscription is preceded by the word عبده 'His [i.e. God's] servant', not عبدة 'slave girl' as stated by Dallal 1995, p. 4).
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition, translation and study:
Maḥbūbī, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Masʿūd,
An Islamic Response to Greek Astronomy: Kitāb Taʿdīl hayʾat al-aflāk of Ṣadr al-Sharīʿa
, ed. and trans.by Ahmad S. Dallal (Leiden, New York: E.J. Brill, 1995)
Studies:
Thompson, J.R. Fawcett, 'The Rich Manuscripts',
The British Museum Quarterly
27.1/2 (1963) pp. 18-23
Cooper, Glen M., 'Ṣadr al-Sharīʿa al-Thānī: ʿUbaydallāh ibn Masʿūd al-Maḥbūbī al-Bukhārī al-Ḥanafī', in
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 1002-3
