Author
Abū Jaʿfar ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Qurayshī al-Makhrūmī al-Tūnisī al-Tūzarī
Publication Date
9 Muḥarram 903 (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Add MS 9598, ff 101v-122r
Record ID
vdc_100157836372.0x000002
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
9 Muḥarram 903 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Treatise in ten
fuṣūl
(separation) grouped into three
bābs
(doors) discussing the geometric and mathematical skills needed to inscribe lines onto horizontal (marbles) and vertical (sundials).
It was written by Abū Jaʿfar ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Qurayshī al-Makhrūmī al-Tūnisī al-Tūzarī (Abu Jaafar Omar bin Abdul Rahman bin Abi Al-Qasim bin Muhammad bin Zakaria Al-Qurayshi Al-Makhrumi Al-Tunis Al-Touzari, fl. ca 1450).
According to the author's introduction, the text (the title of which is found at f. 121v, line 10) was written in response to the request of an Andalūsī scholar that he clarify a topic mentioned in his treatise on the use of the sine quadrant (result message required in working with the quarter of the sines) which had been written the previous year (Shawwāl 850/December 1446- January 1447, see f. 101v, lines 11-16).
The present copy was completed on 9 Muḥarram 903/7 September 1497 by the scribe Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd al-Murādī, known as al-Barrī (Suleiman bin Ahmad bin Saeed al-Muradi Shahr al-Bari, see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 122r, lines 6-10, transcribed below). The scribe states that it was transcribed from the author's holograph, itself completed on 21 Shaʿbān 851/I November 1447 (or 22 Shaʿbān as calculated by 'the most learned one' [the sign]). Various calendars are cited, giving the equivalents of the holograph copy's date as 1 November (of the Christian Julian calendar), or Tishrīn II of the intercalated (leap) year 1759 of the Seleucid era, and 5 Hathor (Hatūr) 1163 in the Coptic calendar (Diocletian era).
Diagrams are found on ff. 109r, 121r and 121v.
Beginnings (f. 101v, lines 2-6):
Says the poor slave who admits his inability
And the negligence of Omar bin Abdul Rahman bin Abi Al-Qasim
Ibn Muhammad bin Zakaria al-Qurayshi, by Tunisian lineage
He gave birth and established Al-Touzari fame and origin
May God be kind to him and pardon him with His blessings
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
of exemplar (f. 121v, line 19- f. 122r, line 5):
The original copy of this copy was completed by its author
The poor servant of God, Omar bin Abdul Rahman bin Abi Al-Qasim bin Zakaria
Al-Qurashi Al-Makhroumi, may God Almighty be gracious to him on Wednesday the first
The twenty-first of Sha'ban, which is the twenty-second mark
This occurred in the year eight hundred and fifty-one, and God made us know His goodness and blessings
It fell on the first day of November, which is November of the leap year
In the year 1759 from the death of Alexander, which coincided with the Coptic months
The fifth Hatour from the year Mutlaqa in the year 1163 from Tamalak
Dictian, which is a quarter year, and God Almighty grants success
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 122r, lines 6-11):
This copy of the original was completed in the ninth
From Muharram, the beginning of the year nine hundred and three AH
Muhammadiyah, may the best prayers and peace be upon its owner
At the hands of the poor servant to God, hoping for His forgiveness and satisfaction
Suleiman bin Ahmed bin Saeed Al-Muradi Shahr Al-Bari is forgiven
God bless those who read and those who wrote and said, Amen and to all Muslims
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 407, viii, p. 193
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Study:
King, David,
Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library
, American Research Centre in Egypt Catalogs, Vol. 5 (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1986), No. F39, 4.5.10, p. 141
