Mathematics and Astronomy [IO Islamic 622]

Mathematics and Astronomy.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 622 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 755 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

755.

622. Size 9 in. by 6 in.; foll. 16. Twenty-nine lines in a page.

A treatise on the Size and Distance of the Planets and Fixed Stars, by GHIYÂTH AL-DÎN JAMSHÎD b. Mas’ûd b. Maḥmûd KÂSHÎ , who flourished in the earlier part of the ninth century. 1 It is called سُلَّم السماء , and also الرسالة الكمالية , from its dedication to the Wazîr Kamâl al-dîn Maḥmûd. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. iii. 610; Cat. Lugd. iii. 133; Stewart, 104.

This treatise consists of eight books (مقالة) and a خاتمة . The conclusion begins: و ليكن هذا آخر ما اوردنا فى هذه الرسالة الكمالية .

Legibly written in a small Nasta’liḳ hand. Dated end of Shawwâl, 850.

Foll. 3 and 5 belong to an astronomical treatise in Persian, and were inserted at a later date.

[Tippu.]

1 He was one of the assistants of Ulugh Beg, see Ḥ. Kh. iii. 559. The date of his death as given by the latter under the present work, viz. A.H. 919, is incorrect.