Three astronomical commentaries

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Collection of three astronomical commentaries from the 14th and 15th centuries.

A bibliographical note in English appears on f. 1r, and ff. 2r-3r contain astronomical notes and diagrams.

A number of related notes on scraps of paper have been bound into the volume.

Contents:

(1) al-Jurjānī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad (الجرجاني، علي بن محمد), Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah (شرح الملخص في الهيئة) (ff. 4v-52r);

(2) al-Turkmānī, Kamāl al-Dīn (التركماني، كمال الدين), Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah (شرح الملخص في الهيئة) (ff. 53v-109r);

(3) al-Nīsābūrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad (النيسابوري، الحسن بن محمد), Tawḍīḥ al-Tadhkirah al-N āṣirīyah (توضيح التذكرة الناصرية) (ff. 110v-364v).

Extent and format

Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. ii+364+iii

It is grouped into

Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah شرح الملخص في الهيئة Jurjānī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad جرجاني، علي بن محمد

96 images

Ref: Add MS 23397, ff 4v-52r

Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah شرح الملخص في الهيئة Turkmānī, Kamāl al-Dīn تركماني، كمال الدين

112 images

Ref: Add MS 23397, ff 53v-109r

Tawḍīḥ al-Tadhkirah al-Nāṣirīyah توضيح التذكرة الناصرية Nīsābūrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad نيسابوري، الحسن بن محمد

511 images

Ref: Add MS 23397, ff 110v-364v

Physical characteristics

Material: Paper

Dimensions: 215 x 125 mm leaf [157 x 85 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: Misṭarah ; 27 lines per page; vertical spacing 18 lines per 10 cm

Script: Nasta‘līq

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red

Decoration: Mandorla of blue and gold ink containing inscription in gold (erased) on red field (f. 4r); opening illuminated in blue and gold (ff. 4v-5r);

Binding: Red leather binding with blind tooled medallion and pendants, and two borders of two fillets each, containing stars

Condition: Minor waterstains to upper outer corner, some foxing

Marginalia: Many by various hands

Seals: ff. 4r and 110r.

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Add MS 23397

History of this record

Date(s)

822-828 (AH, Hijri qamari)

Provenance

• Colonel Robert Taylor (1788-1852), Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in Baghdad (1828-43): his seal, undated, with legend عبده تيلر (ff. 4r and 110r);
• Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd al-Ḥaqq al-Ilahī al-Ardabīlī (حسين بن عبد الحق الإلهي الأردبيلي): his inscription and seal, undated (f. 4r);
• Aḥmad ibn Isma‘īl (أحمد ابن إسمعيل): his inscription and seal, undated, with legend (Qur’ān 61:6) مبشرًا برسول يأتي من بعدي اسمه أحمد (f. 4r);
• Muḥammad ‘Alī ibn Maḥmūd al-Tabrīzī (محمد علي بن محمود التبريزي): his inscription, undated (ff. 4r, 54r, 110r);
• Ḥusayn Khādim Bāshá (حسين خادم باشى): his inscription and seal, undated and semi-legible (f. 4r);

Immediate source of acquisition

Purchased from Mrs Taylor, widow of Colonel Robert Taylor (1788-1852), Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in Baghdad (1828-43), 14 April 1860

Related material

Finding aids

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 1342, p. 621

Subjects

Islamic astronomyAstronomy, ArabAstronomy, MedievalAstronomy--Early works to 1800

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