Mathematics and Astronomy [IO Islamic 2166] [fragment] المدخل فى الاحكام

Mathematics and Astronomy.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2166 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 733 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

733.

2166. Size 91/4 in. by 63/4 in.; foll. 18. From twenty-three to twenty-five lines in a page.

I. Foll. 1-17. The fifth book of an Introduction to Astrology, entitled المدخل فى الاحكام, and ascribed to ABU’L-ḤUSAIN ṢÛFÎ. This work is possibly identical with Casiri i., p. 260, no. CMXV., but it is not mentioned elsewhere.

The present fragment seems to be the concluding portion of the work.

Begins:

المقالة الخامسة من المدخل فى الاحكام الذى صنفه الفاضل العالم ابوالحسن عبدالرحمن بن محمد (sic ) الصوفى و هى سبعة فصول الفصل الاول فى ممازجات الكواكب و ذكر طرق الاحكام

Well written. Dated Iṣfahân, beginning of Rabî’ I., 917 [= 1511 CE]. Transcribed by ‘Alî Dôst b. Ḳara Yûsuf.

II. Foll. 17v.-18. Another fragment, probably belonging to the same work. It comprises sections 2 and 3 of book iv.

Begins:

الفصل الثانى من المقالة الرابعة فى مطرح الشعاع

The third section is inscribed:

الفصل الثالث من المقالة الرابع (sic ) فى مطرح شعاع الكواكب على مذهب بطلمیوس

Written like no. I.

Cf. Stewart’s Catal. 105, xvii.

[College of Fort William, 1825.]