Four treatises on astronomy

Content

Collection of four treatises on astronomy copied between 15 (?) Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1226/1 (?) December 1811 and 20 Jumādá I 1227/29 (?) May 1812 by Muḥammad Muḥsin ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Dawrī (محمد محسن بن محمد صالح بن محي الدين الدوري, see ff. 1r, 235r, 245v, and 255v), Qāḍī at Ūrdá (? القاضي بالاوردى, f. 245v) for his own use (ff. 1r and 245v).

Contents:

• (1) Qāḍīʹzādah al-Rūmī (قاضي زاده الرومي), Sharḥ al-mulakhkhaṣ fī ‘ilm al-hayʾah (شرح الملخص في علم الهيئة; ff. 1r-100v);
• (2) al-Birjandī (البرجندي), [ Taʿlīqāt ʿalá sharḥ al-mulakhkhaṣ ] ([تعليقات على شرح الملخص]; ff. 102r-235r);
• (3) Fakhrī'zādah al-Mawṣilī (فخري زاده الموصلي), Sawāniḥ al-qarīḥah fī sharḥ al-ṣafīḥah fī ‘ilm al-asṭurlāb (سوانح القريحة في شرح الصفيحة في علم الأسطرلاب; ff. 237r-245v);
• (4) Bahā’ al-Dīn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين العاملي), Tashrīḥ al-aflāk (تشريح الأفلاك; ff. 247r-255v).

A small unfoliated leaf has been been bound into the volume between ff. 113 and 114

Extent and format

Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. i+257+ii

It is grouped into

Sharḥ al-mulakhkhaṣ fī ‘ilm al-hayʾah شرح الملخص في علم الهيئة Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad قاضي زاده، موسى بن محمد

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Ref: Or 8415, ff 1r-100v

[Taʿlīqāt ʿalá sharḥ al-mulakhkhaṣ تعليقات على شرح الملخص] Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين

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Ref: Or 8415, ff 102r-235r

Sawāniḥ al-qarīḥah fī sharḥ al-ṣafīḥah fī ‘ilm al-asṭurlāb سوانح القريحة في شرح الصفيحة في علم الأسطرلاب Fakhrī'zādah al-Mawṣilī, ‘Abd Allāh فخري زاده الموصلي، عبد الله

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Ref: Or 8415, ff 237r-245v

Tashrīḥ al-aflāk تشريح الأفلاك ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين

18 images

Ref: Or 8415, ff 247r-255v

Physical characteristics

Material: Western laid paper

Dimensions: 202 x 140 mm leaf [125-55 x 65-95 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: Misṭarah ; 17-25 lines per page; vertical spacing 13-16 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh ; the scribe is Muḥammad Muḥsin ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Dawrī (محمد محسن بن محمد صالح بن محي الدين الدوري, see ff. 1r, 235r, 245v, and 255v)

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

Decoration: None

Binding: Red leather binding with envelope flap; gold-tooled medallions on boards, and blind-tooled border on boards and flap; xylographic decorated doublure of yellow paper on inner boards and flap; marbled paper visible on inner joints of flap

Condition: F. 1 torn and repaired, minor tidemark to edge

Marginalia: Numerous by more than one hand

Seals: f. 1r

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Or 8415

History of this record

Date(s)

1226-1227 (AH, Hijri qamari)

Provenance

• Muḥammad Muḥsin ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Dawrī (محمد محسن بن محمد صالح بن محي الدين الدوري), Qāḍī at Ūrdá (? القاضي بالاوردى, f. 245v), and scribe of this manuscript: his inscription with date 15 (?) Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1226/1 (?) December 1811 and his seal, with date 1212/1797-8 (f.1r);
• ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (عبد الرحمن): his inscription recording the purchase of this manuscript on 25 Rajab 1263/9 July 1847 (f. 1r).
• Inscription and associated seal impression erased (f. 1r);
• Large seal impression, perhaps endowment statement ( waqfiyyah ), erased (f. 1r).

Immediate source of acquisition

Purchased from Ḥājjī ‘Abd al-Majīd Belshah, 9 November1919

Subjects

Astronomy--Early works to 1800

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