Author
Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Ḥusaynī al-Samarqandī
Publication Date
1605-1610 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject
1
Type
Book
Language
ara,fas
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Add MS 23570, ff 117v-133v
Record ID
vdc_100023431932.0x00000e
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
1605-1610 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Persian translation of a treatise on geometry, the
Ashkāl al-ta’sīs
(Forms of incorporation) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Ḥusaynī al-Samarqandī (Shams al-Dīn Muhammad ibn Ashraf al-Husayni al-Samarqandī, d. 1302; see f. 118v, line 7). The translation was made by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qiwām al-Qāḍī al-Wālishtānī known as Maḥmūd al-Harawī al-Hay’awī (Mahmoud ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Qām al-Qadi al-Wālishtānī, fl. c. 1435; see ff. 118r, lines 16-17), and dedicated to Jamāl al-Dīn Sulṭān Ḥusayn (Jamal al-Din Sultan Hussein; see f. 119r, lines 4-6).
All thirty-five propositions of the
Ashkāl al-ta’sī
s
are commented upon, but the copy is defective at the end, finishing abruptly in proposition thirty-five.
The text is followed by notes in Arabic on geometrical terminology (f. 134r) and a bio-bibliographical note in Arabic on al-Sharīf ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī (d. 1413; f. 135r).
Begins (f. 117v, line 2):
He praised me, praised me, and insulted me by measuring the foot of Shahwar...
Ends (f. 133v, lines 16-17):
The surface of H I is equal, the surface of H E is equal to the surface of H E, and the surface of H E is equal.
Such as a free surface, flat surface (?), equal surface (?), equal surface free surface (?), surface
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Study:
Storey, Charles Ambrose,
Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey
, vol. 2, pt. 1 (London: Luzac & Co., 1958), pp. 7 and 9
