Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hay’ah شرح الملخص في الهيئة Jurjānī, ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad جرجاني، علي بن محمد

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The record is made up of Ff. 2r-65v. It was created in 15th century. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.

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Commentary by ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAli al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī ( علي بن محمد بن علي الحسيني الجرجاني; d. 1413), known as al-Sayyid al-Sharīf (السيد الشريف), on the al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī ‘ilm al-hay’ah al-basīṭah (الملخص في علم الهيئة البسيطة), an elementary textbook of astronomy by Sharaf al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Umar al-Jaghmīnī al-Khwārizmī (شرف الدين محمود بن محمد بن عمر الجغميني الخوارزمي; fl. early 13th century). The text contains numerous diagrams.

This copy is defective at the beginning, with the text starting abruptly near the beginning of the text (cf. British Library, Add. MS 23397, f. 4v, line 19).

The text contains the following diagrams:

  • (1) The cosmos (f. 5r);
  • (2) The spheres of the Sun and Venus (f. 9r);
  • (3) The spheres of Mercury and the Moon (f. 9v);
  • (4) An epicycle (f. 26r);
  • (5) Apparent motion of the stars (?) (f. 27r);
  • (6) Apparent motion of the stars (?) (f. 28r);
  • (7) A planetary circuit with epicycles (f. 33r);
  • (8) The climes (f. 47v);
  • (9) Eclipse (f. 61r);
  • (10) Azimuth of the qiblah (f. 62r).

Begins (f. 2r, lines 1-3; defective at beginning):

مقصودًا بالذات في هذا الفن أو يتوفق عليه المقصود إذ الخارج عنهما لا يتعلق به غرض

منها فالثاني هو المقدمة والأول اما أن يتعلق بالأجسام الفلكية وهو المقالة الأولى

أو بالعنصرية وهو المقالة الثانية وتوضيح هذا المقام يستدعي زيادة بسط في الكلام

Ends (f. 65v, lines 11-14):

... ثم ضربوا ذلك في إثنى عشر فجعل أيام السنة القمرية

الاصطلاحية ثلثمائة وأربعة وخمسين يومًا وخمس يوم وسدسه وهذه

السنة ناقطة (!) من السنة الشمسية الحقيقية بعشر أيام وعشرين ساعة و

نصف ساعة بالتقريب والله أعلم بحقيقة الحال والله (!) المصير والحال

Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 65v, lines 16-17):

نجز الشرح

والحمد لله

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Ff. 2r-65v
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15th century (CE, Gregorian)

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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 1343, p. 621

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Studies:

  • Dhanani, Alnoor, 'Jurjānī: ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Ali al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī (al-Sayyid al–Sharīf)' in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers , ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. , 603-04
  • Ragep, Sally P., 'Jaghmīnī: Sharaf al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Jaghmīnī al-Khwārizmī' in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers , ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 584-85

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