Author
Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
Publication Date
25 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1055 (AH)
Subject
1
Type
Book
Language
Persian
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Add MS 23569, ff 56v-77r
Record ID
vdc_100025652531.0x000003
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
25 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1055 (AH)
Notes
Treatise on practical astronomy (calendar) divided into thirty sections (si fasl) composed in 658/1260 (see Amīn,
Mustadrakāt a‘yān al-shī‘ah
, p. 233) by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, d. 1274). The full title of the work is
Sī faṣl dar ma‘rifat-i taqvīm
(Chapter der Maarifat Calendar).
The text contains thirteen complete diagrams and tables (ff. 58v, 60r, 61r, 63r, 63v, 64r, 68r, 69r, 69v, 70r, 71v, 72r, and 72v), with an unfilled space for a further diagram (f. 68v), and a table into which no data has been entered (f. 70v).
The copy was completed on 25 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1055/11 February 1646 (see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 77r, lines 18-19, transcribed below).
Begins (f. 56v, lines 10-12):
Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, and peace and blessings be upon the best of His creation
Muhammad and his entire family, then what is the summary that you may know?
Calendar including 1 semester...
Ends (f. 77r, lines 13-17):
... As for the sale of the verb, Az Saadi
And Dar Shara Bayd is connected to Saadi Boud and Brin Qas and Ma
An abbreviated form that can be chosen as a name
I will clothe myself more and decorate my cheeks with pleasure
Happy books, where is the knowledge of Kind, I swear
I know
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 77r, lines 18-19):
... Okay, done on the 25th
Dhul-Hijjah in the year 1055
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Studies:
Amīn, Ḥasan,
Mustadrakāt a‘yān al-shī‘ah
, vol. 1, (Bayrūt: Dār al-Taʻāruf, 1987) p. 233
Ragep, F. Jamil, 'Ṭūsī: Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī', in
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
, Thomas Hockey et al., eds., (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 1153-55
Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu,
Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th–19th c.)
, (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003) pp. 211–219
