Author
Badr al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfi‘ī al-Miṣrī al-Dimashqī
Publication Date
17th century (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
205 x 150 mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 2411/1
Record ID
vdc_100066404465.0x000002
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
17th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Treatise on the use of the
astrolabe
Ancient instrument for astronomical observations.
quadrant (Quarter of arches) by Badr al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfi‘ī al-Miṣrī al-Dimashqī (Badr al-Din Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Shafi’i al-Masri al-Dimashqi, b. 1423), known as Sibṭ al-Māridīnī (tribe of al-Māridīnī), timekeeper (timekeeper) of the al-Azhar Mosque at Cairo.
The treatise comprises an introduction, thirty chapters, and a conclusion.
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):
Sheikh Imam Al-Allamah Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Ahmad Abu Al-Mahasin said
Badr al-Din al-Shafi’i, the curator at Al-Azhar Mosque, the son of Sheikh
The righteous, pious and ascetic, the late Jamal al-Din al-Mardini
Ends (f. 38v, lines 2-9):
...And as for the half of the excess that was thickened
There are many of them, so it is correct to place the full slant on [...]
And see if the string is cut from the ladder, hit it in the shadow of the load
He gets what he wants and does not stop working
The ladder is in the arches for its need
To the pocket and account
Praise be to God, Lord of the worlds
Done
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 38v, lines 10-14):
The completion of commenting on this blessed message was on Sunday, the seventh [...]
May God’s blessings and peace be upon our master Muhammad and his family and companions [...]
Until the Day of Judgment
And peace be upon him
And if you find a defect, then spoil the defect, Almighty and Most High
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Rieu, Charles,
Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum
(London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 766, pp. 524-25
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Studies:
Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu,
Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th
-
19th c.)
, (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), no. 873, pp. 293-98 (text A16 on p. 296)
De Young, Gregg, 'Sibṭ al-Māridīnī: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Abū ʿAbd Allāh Badr [Shams] al-Dīn al-Miṣrī al-Dimashqī', in
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007) p. 1058
