Author
ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Wafāʿī
Publication Date
1070 (AH, Hijri)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 5408, ff 147v-165v
Record ID
vdc_100139136389.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
1070 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
A short treatise in
bāb
s on the
astrolabe
Ancient instrument for astronomical observations.
quadrant, written by ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muhammad al-Wafāʿī (Abd al-Aziz ibn Muhammad al-Wafa'i, active 15th century) in 843/1439 and based on the works of the
muwaqqit
s (official timekeepers) Jamal al-Din ʿAbd Allāh al-Māridīnī (Jamal al-Din Abdullah al-Mardini, d. 1406) and Shams [also: Zayn] al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Mizzī (Shams [Zayn] al-Din Muhammad Al-Mazi, d. 1349), who was also an instrument-maker (see the
astrolabe
Ancient instrument for astronomical observations.
quadrant made by him in the British Museum: object number 1888, 1201.276 <https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1888-1201-276>).
While the present copy lacks a
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, all other texts in the same volume were transcribed in 1070/1659-60 by the scribe ʿAlī ibn Muhammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī (Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hassan ibn Zayn al-Din al-ʿĀmilī). F. 165v bears a marginal note referring to the text's transmission by the scribe's ancestor Zayn al-Dīn.
Begins (f. 147v, lines 2-4):
Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds, and peace and submission be upon our Prophet Muhammad, the last of the prophets and messengers, and upon his family
And read the collection and after the explanation of the useful concise message, God willing, gather in it among the messages
Interviews with Sheikh Imam Shams al-Din Mohammed al-Mazi and Jamal al-Din Abdullah al-Mardini.
Ends (f. 165r, line 16- f. 165v, line 2):
...between rows
The arc and the rest are the best circles in the east that the rest is smaller than half the arc
In the western direction it can be more and if the noise is easier to exit in the virtue of the district and then hidden from you
Allah knows best
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:
Féhérvari, Géza, 'An Eighth/Fourteenth-Century Quadrant of the Astrolabist al-Mizzī',
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
, 36 (1973), pp. 115–17 and two plates
İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin, and Boris Rozenfeld. 2003. Mathematicians, Astronomers And Other Scholars Of Islamic Civilisation And Their Works (7Th-19Th C.). Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture. P. 261(no. 775)
'Mizzī: Zayn al-Dīn [Shams al-Din] Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Mizzī al-Ḥanafī', in
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al., (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 792-793
