Compendium containing treatises on astronomy, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and shorter extracts and notes on related topics. The title page (f. 7r), which is written by a later hand than that of the main scribe, calls the volume 'a compendium of seven treatises accompanied by various studies (مجموعة سبع رسائل مع مبحثات متفرقة)', and lists only the following seven works:صفيحة الإمكان في أصطرلابما لا بد للفقيه من الحسابكتاب الأكبر [!] لثاودوسي اوس [!]كتاب الكرّة لأوتولوقوسكتاب لثاودوسي اوس [!] في الليل والنهاركتاب لثاودوسي اوس [!] في المساكنفوائد الجمالي في أصول الهندسةThe scribe is Ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥīm Abū al-Qāsim Yaḥyá al-Astar’ābādī (ابن عبد الرحيم أبو القاسم يحيى الأسترآبادي; see ff. 12r, 24r and f. 62r), who copied the manuscript for his own use in Jumādá II 1014/Oct.-Nov. 1605 at Yazd (see f. 62r) and Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1018/Jan.-Feb. 1610 at Qom (see f. 24r)Contents:(1)
(Fā’idah) min Sharḥ shamsīyat al-ḥisāb([فائدة] من شرح شمسية الحساب) (ff. 2v-3v);(2) Short extracts and notes in Persian and Arabic (ff. 4v-6a);(3) Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي),
Ṣafīḥat al-imkān fī aṣṭurlāb(صفيحة الإمكان في أصطرلاب; ff. 7v-12r);(4) Two short extracts on astronomy in Arabic and Persian (ff. 12v-13r);(5) Abū al-‘Alā’ Muḥammad al-Bihishtī al-Isfarā’aynī (أبو العلاء محمد البهشتي الإسفرايني),
Mā lā budda lil-faqīh min al-ḥisāb(ما لا بد للفقيه من الحساب; ff. 14r-24v);(6) Anonymous, Treatise on geometry (ff. 25v-28r);(7) Anonymous, Treatise on ascertaining the levelness of surfaces (ff. 29v-30r);(8) Theodosius (ثاوذوسيوس),
De sphaericis(كتاب الأكر; ff. 30r-62r)(9) Autolycus (أوطولوقس),
De sphaera quae movetur(كتاب الكرة المتحركة; ff. 62r-69v);(10) Theodosius (ثاودوسيوس),
De diebus et noctibus(كتاب ثاوذوسيوس في الليل والنهار; ff. 70r-75r);(11) Theodosius (ثاودوسيوس),
De habitationibus(كتاب ثاوذوسيوس في المساكن; ff 76r-82r);(12) Two short texts on astronomy (ff. 83v-85r);(13) Short mathematical texts, notes and diagrams in Arabic and Persian (ff. 86v-117r);(14) Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Samarqandī (محمد بن أشرف السمرقندي), Fawā’id al-Jamālī fī uṣūl al-handasah (فوائد الجمالي في أصول الهندسة; ff. 117v-133v).Codex; ff. iv+136+ivMaterial: PaperDimensions: 169 x 69 mm leaf [117 x 50 mm written]Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencilRuling:
Misṭarah; 19 lines per page; vertical spacing 16 lines per 10 cmScript:
Nasta‘līq; copied by Ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥīm Abū al-Qāsim Yaḥyā al-Astarābādī for his own useInk: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings and diagrams in redBinding: Morocco leather binding; boards with blind-tooled borders, medallion and pendantsCondition: Minor water damage to upper marginMarginalia: Numerous throughoutSeals: Ff. 2r (erased), 7r, 14r, 30r, 62r, 70r, 76r and 117v
The good manners and quatities of the the great Imam Abu Hanifah, one of the 4th Sunnite Islamic sects. |If you would like to view the Arabic language description in the AUB catalogue, please go to : https://libcat.aub.edu.lb/record=b2619053Condition: Good condition.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 294Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.353a (p.705), transcription finished in Rabīʻ I "shahr Mawlid al-Nabī" 901 [Nov-Dec 1495].Binding: Pasteboards covered in fine dark brown leather; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures in light brown leather ; upper and lower covers feature a large rectangular central field with intricate, repeating geometrical/vegetal pattern, bordered by a relatively narrow frame ; frame contains a series of small panels, in which elements of the central pattern are featured ; pattern continues onto flap ; doublures feature a central medallion with two smaller pendants and corner pieces, all with filigree design over a background of lapis lazuli and outlined in gold paint ; edges of textblock gold-flecked and carry gold-painted vegetal decoration ; sewn in white thread, two stations ; endbands in green and gold ; in very poor condition with lower cover completely detached at spine, front cover and flap both on the verge of detaching, though decoration is in good shape ; evidence of made endpapers in red marbled paper, now removed ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European (Persian) laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and no chain lines visible ; lightly burnished ; relatively thin ; in good condition with some repairs and reinforcements.Decoration: Fine illuminated headpieces (ʻunwān/ʻanāwīn) found at the openings of each of the six books of the work (pp.4-5, 116, 214, 350, 458, 576) ; illuminated marginal decoration surrounds the prose dībāchah (pp.2-3) with lapis lazuli frame filled with a repeating, rectilinear vegetal pattern in gold, white, black, turquoise, and red and tīghs executed in blue ; frontispiece at the opening of the first book carries the first verses set apart in a double-page illumination with exquisite decoration matching the style of the dībāchah pages, but more elaborate ; aside from initial folia, written area surrounded by heavy gold frame and outermost blue fillet ; chapter headings often rubricated or chrysographed and set in cloud-bands of pink and yellow (gold?) cross-hatching ; text of dībāchah and colophon chrysographed.Script: Naskh ; headings and text of opening pages (dībāchah) done in tawqīʻ.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; incipit and facing page in 18 lines per page ; verses in frontispiece for opening book in 7 lines per page ; written area divided mainly into four columns, except on the initial pages of each book, which feature only a single column.Collation: i, III+2 (8), 9 V(98), IV+1 (107), 24 V(347), IV-2 (353), ii ; chiefly quinions, with one anomalous ternion and two anomalous quaternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," in Arabic, reads: "تم الکتاب المثنوی المعنوی المولوی بحمد الله و منه في شهر مولود النبی علیه السلام سنه احدي وتسعمایه الهجریه"Explicit: "قصه کوته کن که رفتم در حجاب هین خمش و الله اعلم بالصواب"Incipit: "هذا کتاب المثنوی وهو اصول اصول اصول [كذا] الدین فی کشف اسرار الوصول والیقین ..."Title from opening (p.2).Ms. codex.Exquisite copy of Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī's didactic poetical work in double verses. Description provided by Derek Mancini-Lander.