Author
the Andalusian astronomer and mathematician Abū al-Qāsim Aṣbagh ibn Muḥammad al-Gharnāṭī Ibn al-Samḥ
Publication Date
14th century (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Add MS 9602, ff 25v-55v
Record ID
vdc_100023486831.0x000002
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
14th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
A treatise on the use of the
astrolabe
Ancient instrument for astronomical observations.
by the Andalusian astronomer and mathematician Abū al-Qāsim Aṣbagh ibn Muḥammad al-Gharnāṭī Ibn al-Samḥ (Abu al-Qasim Asbagh ibn Muhammad al-Gharnati ibn al-Samh, 979-1035). The text is divided into 130 sections (sections). A list of the sections and their titles is found on ff. 25v-28v. This copy is defective at the end, and ends abruptly during section 139 (see ending, f. 55v, lines 17-19, transcribed below).
Begins (f. 25v, lines2- ):
The Book of Working with the Astrolabe was written by Ibn al-Samh, may God have mercy on him, and it has one hundred and thirty chapters.
Chapter One.A. On the description of the astrolabe, the naming of its parts, and its layout...
Ends (f. 55v, lines 17-19):
...The door is closed
In determining the position of the sun using a circle made on the back of the astrolabe, which was done in Talil (?)
There are two (?) stubs (?) in one of them to extend the month and its days, I mean
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Translation:
Ibn al-Samḥ, Aṣbagh ibn Muḥammad,
El "Kitāb al-ʻamal bi-l-asṭurlāb" (Llibre de l'ús de l'astrolabi) d'Ibn al-Samḥ
, Mercè Viladrich i Grau, ed. and trans., (Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 1986)
Study:
Rius, Mònica, 'Ibn al-Samḥ: Abū al-Qāsim Aṣbagh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Samḥ al-Gharnāṭī', in
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
, Thomas Hockey et al., eds., (New York: Springer, 2007) p. 568
Sezgin, Fuat,
Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums
, vol. V (Leiden: Brill, 1974). p. 356 and vol. 6 (Leiden: Brill, 1978). p. 249
