Tarjamah-’i Sab‘ shidād ترجمه سبع شداد

Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 23r-44v

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The record is made up of Ff. 23r-44v. It was created in 19th century. It was written in Persian and Farsi. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.

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Anonymous commentary on the al-Sabʿ al-shidād fī ‘ilm al-hayʾah (السبع الشداد في علم الهيئة) by Ḥusayn ibn Kamāl al-Dīn al-Ṭabāṭabāʾī.

The text contains numerous diagrams.

Begins (f. 23, lines 2-4):

الحمد لله حمد الشاكرين والصلوة والسلام على خير الخلقة محمد وآله وأصحابه أجمعين أما بعد اين

كتاب كتابي است مشتمل بر مقدمه و در مقاله و خاتمه مقدمة در بيان پيش از شروع درين

علم دانستنى است ...

Ends (f. 44v, lines 14-16):

و جرم او يك نخش از دوازده هزار وهفصد وشصت و نه بخش زمين است

و اعظم ثوابت مرصوده دويست و بيست و دو بر ابر زمين است و اصغر

ثوابت مرصوده بيست و سه بر ابر زمينن است. تمت تمام شد

Extent and format
Ff. 23r-44v
It is part of
Four texts on astronomy
140 images
Ref: Delhi Arabic 1937B
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Persian and Farsi in Arabic script
Type
Manuscript item

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British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
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Unrestricted

Archive reference
Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 23r-44v

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19th century (CE, Gregorian)

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Edition of Arabic Text Commented Upon:

  • Ibn Kamāl al-Dīn, Ḥusayn, Sab‘ al-shidād (al-Dihlī: al-Maṭba‘ al-Mujtabā’ī, 1309)

Studies:

  • Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th - 19th c.) (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), p. 428, no. 073
  • Rahman, A., Science and Technology in Medieval India: a Bibliography of Source Materials in Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian (New Delhi: Indian National Science Academy, 1982), p. 297

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Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 23r-44v
Title
Tarjamah-’i Sab‘ shidād ترجمه سبع شداد
Pages
23r:44v
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