Collection of nine manuscripts on mathematics, geometry and the astrolabe

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Title

Collection of nine manuscripts on mathematics, geometry and the astrolabe, [16--?/17--?].

Physical Description

1 v. ([122] leaves) : ill. ; 22 cm.

Language

Arabic; Persian

Notes

16.5 x 22 cm; written surface varies; lines per page vary.

Bound with a flap.

In different scripts: naskhī, naskh taʻlīq, and ruqʻah, in different hands; in black ink with markings and illustrations in red, on yellowish paper; many commentaries, interlinear, on the margins and on slips inserted between the leaves on some of the treatises.

On folio 1a: "Hādhā al-jild mushtamil ʻalá tisʻat risālah: Khulāṣah fī al-ḥisāb, wa-Risālah li-rubʻ al-muqanṭarāt, wa-Risālah li-rubʻ al-jayb, wa-risālat al-muqanṭarāt, wa-Risālat asṭurlāb, wa-ḥāshiyah ʻalá asṭurlāb al-mulaqqab bi-Ḥaydarī, wa-Sharḥ Ashkāl al-taʼsīs li-Qāḍī Zādah, wa-Ḥāshiyah ʻalá rubʻ al-jayb li-Yaḥyá Afandī, wa-Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-jayb."

على الورقة 1أ: "هذا الجلد مشتمل على تسعة رسالة: خلاصة في الحساب، ورسالة لربع المقنطرات، ورسالة لربع الجيب، ورسالة المقنطرات، ورسالة أسطرلاب، وحاشية على أسطرلاب الملقب بحيدري، وشرح أشكال التأسيس لقاضي زادة، وحاشية على ربع الجيب ليحيى أفندي، ورسالة في العمل بالربع الجيب."

In Arabic with one translation from Persian into Arabic.

Provenance

Purchased from Palmyra Bookseller on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2007.

Summary

A Collection of nine manuscripts on mathematics, geometry and the astrolabes (astronomical instruments) by different authors: 1. Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb (a treatise on mathematics) by Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī, 1547-1621 (folios 3a-22b). 2. Dāʼirat rubʻ al-muqanṭarāt (on mathematics and geometry) by Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Tīzīnī, 1425-1505 (folios 23a-28a). 3. Risālat Rubʻ al-jayb (on mathematics and geometry) by Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Ḥalabī al-shahīr bi-al-Tīzīnī, 1425-1505 (folios 28b-32b). 4. Risālat al-Rubʻ al-kāmil (also known by the titles al-Muqanṭarāt and Hidāyat al-ʻāmil) (on mathematics and geometry) by Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Ḥalabī al-shahīr bi-al-Tīzīnī. Copied by Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn Himmat in Āmid (Diyarbakır,Turkey) on 4 Ramaḍān, 1129 (12 August, 1717) (folios 34a-43b) 5. Asmāʼ al-rusūm al-marsūmah ʻalá al-asṭurlāb (on the astrolabe) by anonymous, copied by ʻAlī ibn ʻAlī. Date and place of copying not mentioned. Probably in the 18th century (folios 44a-50b). 6. Risālah fī al-asṭurlāb (also known by the title: Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-asṭurlāb) (on the astrolabe), translated and abridged from a Persian original by Ḥaydar ibn al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥasanī al-Jazzī (i.e. al-Jazarī) (folios 52b-64b), copied by Sayyid Muḥammad al-Qarahʹḥiṣārī in 1095 (1683 or 1684). Place of copying not mentioned, probably in Karahısar, Turkey. 7. Sharḥ Ashkāl al-taʼsīs (on geometry), also known by the title: Tuḥfat al-raʼīs fī sharḥ ashkal al-taʼsīs of Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī (Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Samarqandī, 13th cent.) by Qāḍī Zādah al-Rūmī (Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad, d. ca. 1436) (folios 65a-104b). Copied by Khalīl ibn Ibrāhīm Nashīnkiʼī (?) on 5 Jumāda al-awwal (year not mentioned) at Madrasat Zanjīr Bih. 8. Muqaddimah mukhtaṣarah fī maʻrifat istikhrāj aʻmāl al-layl wa-al-nahār min rubʻ al-dāʼirah al-musamḿ bi-rubʻ al-jayb (on geometry, astronomy and timekeeping), also known by the title: Ḥāshiyah ʻalá rubʻ al-jayb, by Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥaṭṭāb, 1496 or 7-1586 or 7, a Mālikī Islamic law scholar, arithmatician, astronomer and timekeeper (folios 105b-117a). Copied by Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf in 1124 H (1712 or 1713). Place of copying not mentioned. 9. Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab (on geometry and mathematics), also known by the title: al-Risālah al-fatʹḥīyah fī al-aʻmāl al-jaybīyah, by Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, b. 1423 (folios 117b-122a), copied by Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf on 15 Jumādá al-Ākhir 1124 H (20 July, 1712) in the town of Qarah Ḥiṣār Sharqī (probably in Turkey) at Madrasat al-Shaykh Walī.

Variant and related titles

Asmāʼ al-rusūm al-marsūmah ʻalá al-asṭurlāb.

أسماء الرسوم المرسومة على الأسطرلاب.

Ḥāshiyah ʻalá rubʻ al-jayb.

حاشية على ربع الجيب.

Hidāyat al-ʻāmil.

هداية العامل.

Muqaddimah mukhtaṣarah fī maʻrifat istikhrāj aʻmāl al-layl wa-al-nahār min rubʻ al-dāʼirah al-musammá bi-rubʻ al-jayb.

مقدمة مختصرة في معرفة استخراج أعمال الليل والنهار من ربع الدائرة المسمى بربع الجيب.

Muqanṭarāt.

مقنطرات.

Risālah al-fatʹḥīyah fī al-aʻmāl al-jaybīyah.

رسالة الفتحية في الأعمال الجيبية.

Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-asṭurlāb.

رسالة في العمل بالأسطرلاب.

Sharḥ Ashkāl al-taʼsīs.

شرح أشكال التأسيس.

Tuḥfat al-raʼīs fī sharḥ Ashkāl al-taʼsīs.

تحفة الرئيس في شرح أشكال التأسيس.

Format

Archives or Manuscripts

Added to Catalog

December 06, 2012

References

Collection of nine manuscripts on mathematics, geometry and the astrolabe. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Cite as

Collection of nine manuscripts on mathematics, geometry and the astrolabe. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Subjects

Al-Tizīnī, Muhammad ibn Muhammad.

تيزيني، محمد بن محمد.

ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621.

عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين، 1547-1621.

Ḥaṭṭāb, Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad, 1496 or 1497-1586 or 1587.

حطاب، يحيى بن محمد، 1496 or 1497-1586 or 1587.

Jazarī, Ḥaydar ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān.

جزري، حيدر بن عبد الرحمن.

Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad, -approximately 1436.

قاضي‌زادة، موسى بن محمد، ت. ح. 1436.

Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf, 13th cent. Ashkāl al-taʼsīs.