Mathematics and Astronomy [IO Islamic 1048]

Mathematics and Astronomy.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1048 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 772 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

772.

1048. Size 8 in.by 53/4in.; foll. 38. Twenty-five, twenty-three, and twenty-one lines in a page.

I.Foll. 1-20. Calculation of various astronomical problems, by an unknown author.

Entitled كفاية المحتاج من الطلاب الى معرفة المسائل الفلكية بالحساب . The work was completed on 23rd Dhu’l-ḳa’dah, 883.

Begins: الحمدلله الذى خلقنا واوجدنا من العدم ... . و بعد فهذه رسالة حسابية مشتملة على قواعد كلية فى استخراج المسائل الفلكية الماخوذة من المقادير الهندسية .

In nineteen chapters.

A good copy, transcribed from a MS. which was written during the author’s lifetime. Collated with another copy, by a different hand.

II.Foll. 21-30. A sciatheric treatise, entitled الدرة البهية فى وضع خطوط فضل الدائر بالطرق الهندسية1 , by MUḤAMMAD B. ‘ALÎ b. Muḥammad b. ‘Alî الشبراملسى Mâlikî Azharî.

Begins: الحمد لله الذى زين السماء الدنيا بزينة الكواكب . The treatise is divided into three parts (قسم) , as follows : I. فى الاصول الهندسية المحتاج اليها فى هذه الرسالة ; II. فى وضع خطوط فضل الدائر ; III. فى تتمات و تنبيهات تتعلق بالقسم الثانى . Each part consists of two chapters.

III.Foll. 31-38. Two introductory treatises on Geometry and Astronomy, by an unknown author.

Beginning: الحمد لله ذكر مقدمتین من الهندسة و الهيئة يستعان بهما على حدود الابواب و براهينها و بعض حدود و ذلك فى ١٤ بابا و خاتمة والله اعلم الباب الاول فى تعريف النقطة و الخط الخ.

The first treatise consist of three, and the second (fol.32) of eleven chapters. They contain chiefly definitions.

The two latter pieces are plainly written, by Nûr al-dîn b. Muḥammad b. Abu’l-su’ûd Yazîdî Shâfi’î.

The first is dated 27th Shawwâl, and the second, 15th Dhu’l-ḥijjah, 1049.

[Gaikwar.]

1 See on the subject, Cat. Bodl. ii. 284.