Author
Maḥmūd ibn Mas'ūd Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī (author)
Publication Date
1200/1399
Publication Place
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Qatar National Library
Subject
Astronomy--Early works to 1800 | more | less
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
Codex; ff. iii+172+iii
Library
Digital Library of the Middle East
Library Asset ID
81055/vdc_100052518391.0x000001_ar | 81055/vdc_100052518391.0x000001_en | Add MS 7477
Record ID
81055%2Fvdc_100052518391.0x000001_dlme
Library Location
British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
Date
1200/1399
Notes
Commentary by Quṭb al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Mas‘ūd al-Shīrāzī (Qutb al-Dīn Mahmud ibn Masoud al-Shirazi; c. 1236-1310) on the
Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah (Book of the Ticket in the Authority; see British Library, MS Or. 11209) a treatise on the astronomical system presented in the
Almagestof Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168) by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (Nasir al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Tusi; d. 1274). A Persian note on f. 1r claims that the manuscript is undoubtedly in the hand of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī himself, but the extensive and hyperbolic eulogy for the author with which the text begins (see f. 2v, lines 2-4, transcribed below) argues against this.The text is divided into four books (chapters), each subdivided into chapters (chapters), and further subded into smaller sections variously designated as topics , Sections and Laws.Contents:'Book One: What must be introduced before attempting the aims [of the text], containing three chapters' Chapter, ff. 7r-131r);'Book Three: The arrangement of the Earth and its division into populated and empty [regions] et cetera on account of differences in the placements of the heavenly bodies and the like, containing thirteen chapters' quantity of distances and (heavenly) bodies, containing three chapters' (Chapter Four on Knowing the Quantities of Dimensions and Bodies, containing three chapters, ff. 151r-169v). The beginning of the text as preserved here differs from that of the copy of this text preserved in Add. MS 23393, f. 2v, but corresponds to that of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī's
Final Understanding of the Congnizance of the Spheres as preserved in Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Orientabteilung, MS Peterman I 674, f. 0a, lines 2-5 (see | https://ismi.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/om4-ismi/public/publicWitness.jsp?eid=164549).The | The manuscript contains numerous diagrams and is defective at the end, with only a few words of the text's explicit visible on f. (f. 169r, lines 19-21, defective at the end, cf. Add. MS 23393, f. 177r, line 9ff): ... and engaging in worldly concerns, even judgement and teaching, since time is old, is a scourge and a deception. He has made it a service to the common treasury of the Most Great Lord and the Greatest Served, and a masterpiece of His Highness. Codex; ff. iii+172+iii | Material: Eastern laid paperDimensions: 165 x 120 mm leaf [120 x 90 mm written]Folation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Three slips of paper have been bound into the volume as ff. 95a, 156a, and 160aRuling: No ruling visible; 21 lines per page; vertical spacing 17 lines per 10 cmScript:
NaskhInk: Black ink, with diagrams and some overlinings in redDecoration: NoneBinding: Red leather binding with blind-tooled medallion, pendants and bordersCondition: Minor tidemarks towards the beginning of volume, bleedtrough due to iron-gall inkMarginalia: Numerous towards the beginning of volume, fewer thereafter, by more than one handSeals: f. 2r | more | less
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