Yazar
the author of
al-Zīj al-ʻAlāʼī
to pass al-Būzjānī's observational data off as his own
The present text is identical with the first ten
bāb
s of a
zīj
attributed to al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʿUmar al-Abharī
Basım Tarihi
16th century (CE, Gregorian)
Tür
Kitap
Dil
ara,fas
Dijital
Evet
Yazma
Evet
Sayfa Sayısı
1
Kütüphane
Katar Dijital Kütüphanesi
Demirbaş Numarası
Add MS 7492, ff 52v-66v
Kayıt Numarası
vdc_100143915509.0x000001
Lokasyon
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Tarih
16th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notlar
Astronomical handbook in ten
bābs
(أبواب), each subdivided into
fuṣūl
(فصول) in the tradition of Abū al-Wafāʾ al-Būzjānī and his colleagues at the Bāb al-Tibn Observatory in Baghdad (أبو الوفاء البوزجاني, d. 998, see f. 52v, line 3). The incipit also mentions the earlier work carried out under caliph al-Maʼmūn (المأمون, reg. 813-33), and the attempt by the author of
al-Zīj al-ʻAlāʼī
to pass al-Būzjānī's observational data off as his own
The present text is identical with the first ten
bāb
s of a
zīj
attributed to al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʿUmar al-Abharī (أثير الدين مفضّل بن عمر الأبهري, d. 1265; see, e.g., Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, Ar 4076), although the present manuscript lacks the tables.
The text is followed by two pages (f. 67v-68r) of verse in Persian, in a different hand, beginning:
جواجه درياب كه جان در تن انسان ادبست
خواجه انوار دل وديده مردان ادبست
Begins (f. 52v, lines 2-7):
أحمد الله على تواتر الآية وأشكره على تظاهر نعمائه حمدا يحق بعظمته
وشكرا يليق بكبريائه وأصلي على محمد خير رسله وأنبيائه وبعد فهذا
زيج وضعته على مقتضي أوساط صححها الشيخ أبو الوفاء محمد ابن أحمد البوزجاني
وأصحابه بأرصاد متواليته وإمتحانات صدرت منهم بعد رصد المأمون
وقد أوردها صاحب الزيج العلأي مدعيا لقلة أنصافه بأنها مرصودة
بآلات اتخذها هو بنفسه من غير اشتهارة بالرصد ...
Ends (f. 66v, lines 3-7):
...إن كان العرض المعدل شماليا حينئذ فالانحراف غربي شمالي
فنأخذ من محيط الدائرة التي سبقت بمدار الانحراف
ونصل من طرفه إلى مركز الدائرة خطا و
نخرجه على الإستقامة فعليه
القبلة والله أعلم
بالصواب
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 395 (III), p. 188-89
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Studies:
Hashemipour, Behnaz, 'Abū al‐Wafāʾ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al‐Būzjānī', in
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al., (New York: Springer, 2007), pp. 188-189
Kennedy, David, 'A Survey of Islamic Astronomical Tables',
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
, 46 (1956), pp. 123-77 [see p. 129, item 29 and p. 133, item 56]
Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu,
Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.)
, (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003): al-Abharī: p. 209 (no. 595); al-Būzjānī: p. 97 (no. 256), A1
Sarıoğlu, Hüseyin, 'Athīr Al‐Dīn Al‐Mufaḍḍal Ibn ʿUmar Ibn Al‐Mufaḍḍal Al‐Samarqandī Al‐Abharī', in
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al., (New York: Springer, 2007), pp. 7-8
