al-Tabṣirah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah التبصرة في علم الهيئة Kharaqī, ʻAbd al-Jabbār ibn ʻAbd al-Jabbār خرقي، عبد الجبار بن عبد الجبار
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The record is made up of Ff. 61r-110r. It was created in 1107. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.
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Treatise on astronomy by Bahā’ al-Dīn (بهاء الدين) and Shams al-Dīn Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Kharaqī (شمس الدين أبو بكر محمد بن أحمد الخرقي, d. 1138-39), elsewhere called Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Jabbār ibn ‘Abd al-Jabbār ibn Muḥammad (أبو محمد عبد الجبار بن عبد الجبار بن محمد). The author's colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. gives his name as Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abū Bakr al-Ḥanafī ( محمد بن أحمد بن أبي بكر الحنفي, see f. 110r, line 9, transcribed below).
According to the author's colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. in this copy, the text was composed in 762/1360-61 more than two centuries after the author's known death date (see f. 110r, line 10, transcribed below).
The text is divided into two parts (قسمان), the first of which is subdivided into twenty chapters (أبواب) some of which are further subdivided into sections (فصول), and the second part is divided into fourteen chapters (أبواب). Lists of the chapter titles are provided for both Part One (ff. 62r-62v) and Part Two (f. 98v).
Blank spaces have been left for diagrams that were never added.
The copy was completed in 1107/1695-96 by Muḥammad Riḍā ibn ‘Azīz Allāh al-Tūnī (محمد رضا ابن عزيز الله التوني, see scribe's colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 110r, lines 12-13, transcribed below).
Begins (f. 61v, lines 3-5):
الحمد لله حق حمده والصلوة على خير خلقه محمد سيد أصفيائه وخاتم أنبيائه وبعد فإن العلماء
والحكماء كانوا قبل زماننا هذا متوقرين (!) على جميع العلوم وتأليفها وإيضاحها وتلخيصها إذ كانت
أوقاتهم صافية عن الشواغل الشوائب وأكنافهم محفوفة بالمنائح والرغائب ...
Ends (f. 110r, lines 4-7):
... وكذلك قوس الليل إذا كانت أعظم كانت
أجزاؤها أكثرًا وقوس النهار أو الليل مقسومة على إثنى عشر مختلف الخارج من القسمة لكن لم ينظر
إلى هذا الإختلاف بل أعتبر عدد الساعات بستين قسمًا كل قسم دقيقة على ما جرت عادتهم في قسمة
الدرج وأجزائها بالأجزاء الستينية
Author's colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 110r, lines 7-10):
... وحين انتهينا إلى هاهنا فلنختم الكتاب بهذا الباب والحمد لله
وحده وصلى الله على محمد وآله وصحبه أجمعين
تعليق محمد بن أحمد بن أبي بكر الحنفي
سنة 762 من الهجرة.
Scribe's colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 110r, lines 10-14):
... تم
كتاب التبصرة في علم الهيئة على
يد العبد محمد رضا ابن عزيز
الله التوني سنة 1107
والحمد لله وحده
On either side of the colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. the scribe has written the following lines (f. 110r):
الخط يبقى زمانًا بعد كاتبه
وكاتب الخط تحت الأرض مدفون
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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 1339, p. 620
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Study and German translation of introduction:
- Wiedemann, Eilhard and Karl Kohl, 'Einleitung zu Werken von al-Charaqī', Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch- Medizinischen Sozietät in Erlangen 58/59 (1926/1927) pp. 203-218, on pp. 209-211 (Reprinted in Wiedemann, Eilhard, Aufsätze zur arabischen Wissenschaftsgeschichte [Hildesheim: G. Olms, 1970] vol. 2, pp. 628–643, on pp. 634-636)
Studies:
- Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th - 19th c.) (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), no. 435, p. 173
- Langermann, Y. Tzvi, 'Kharaqī: Shams al-Dīn Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ahmad al-Kharaqī [al-Kiraqī]', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers , ed. by Thomas Hockey et al., (New York: Springer, 2007) p. 627
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