Ḥāwī al-mukhtaṣarāt fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-muqanṭarāt حاوي المختسرات في العمل بربع المقنطرات Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad سبط المارديني، بدر الدين محمد بن محمد

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The record is made up of Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. i+38+i. It was created in 17th century. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.

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Treatise on the use of the astrolabe Ancient instrument for astronomical observations. quadrant (ربع المقنطرات) by Badr al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfi‘ī al-Miṣrī al-Dimashqī (بدر الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن محمد بن أحمد الشافعي المصري الدمشقي, b. 1423), known as Sibṭ al-Māridīnī (سبط المارديني), timekeeper (موقّت) of the al-Azhar Mosque at Cairo.

The treatise comprises an introduction (مقدمة), thirty chapters (باب), and a conclusion (خاتمة).

Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):

قال الشيخ الإمام العلم العلامة محمد بن محمد بن أحمد أبو المحاسن

بدر الدين الشافعي الموقت بالجامع الأزهر سبط الشيخ

الصالح الورع الزاهد المرحوم جمال الدين المارديني

Ends (f. 38v, lines 2-9):

... وأما نصف الفضلة التي غلظ

فيها كثيرون فصوابها أن تضع على تمام الميل صـ[...]

وتنظر ما قطع الخيط من السلم اضربه في ظل الحمل

يحصل جيب المطلوب ولا ينتفي أن يعمل

السلم في المقنطرات لاحتياجه

إلى الجيب والحساب

والحمد لله رب العالمين

تمت

Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 38v, lines 10-14):

وكان الفراغ من تعليق هذه الرسالة المباركة يوم الأحد سابع [...]

وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم تسليمًا [...]

إلى يوم الدين

وسلم

وإن تجد عيبًا فسد الخللا جل من لا عيب فيه وعليا

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Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. i+38+i

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Ḥāwī al-mukhtaṣarāt fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-muqanṭarāt حاوي المختسرات في العمل بربع المقنطرات Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad سبط المارديني، بدر الدين محمد بن محمد and an astrolabe quadrant (ربع المقنطرات)

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Physical characteristics

Material: Western laid paper

Dimensions: 205 x 150 mm leaf [140 x 100 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: No ruling visible; 21 lines per page; vertical spacing 15 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings

Decoration: None

Binding: Red leather binding with blind-tooled medallion and borders

Condition: Tidemarks towards head of volume, foxing especially towards back of volume

Marginalia: By numerous hands, some mutilated thourgh page trimming

Seals: None

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Arabic in Arabic script

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Manuscript

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British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

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Unrestricted

Archive reference

Or 2411/1

History of this record

Date(s)

17th century (CE, Gregorian)

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Finding aids

Rieu, Charles, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 766, pp. 524-25

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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. 873, pp. 293-98 (text A16 on p. 296)
De Young, Gregg, 'Sibṭ al-Māridīnī: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Abū ʿAbd Allāh Badr [Shams] al-Dīn al-Miṣrī al-Dimashqī', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers , ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007) p. 1058

Subjects: Astronomy--Early works to 1800
People & organisations: Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī

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Title: Ḥāwī al-mukhtaṣarāt fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-muqanṭarāt حاوي المختسرات في العمل بربع المقنطرات Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad سبط المارديني، بدر الدين محمد بن محمد
Pages: front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1r:38v, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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