Mathematics and Astronomy [IO Islamic 681]

Mathematics and Astronomy. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 681 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 742 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 742. 681. Size 81/2 in. by 43/4 in.; foll. 368. Twenty-nine lines in a page. A Commentary on Ṭûsî’s تحرير المجسطى , by ABD AL-‘ALÎ b. Muḥammad al- Ḥusain,- that is, probably, Niẓâm al-dîn ‘Abd al-‘alî b. Muḥammad Barjandî, who flourished towards the end of the ninth century. Cf. Cat. St. Petersb. 111, and below, no. 754. Begins: الحمد لله الذى جعلنا من المتفكرين فى خلق السموات و الارض . This is a commentary by قوله . It is founded upon glosses on the same work, which the author wrote at an earlier period. He speaks of the commentary of Niẓâm al-dîn al-Ḥasan Nîsâbûrî 1 as being too short and insufficient. Written in a small hand. Seal of ‘Aẓîm (?), a servant of Muḥammad Shâh (A.H.1135). [Johnson.] 1 He wrote A.H. 704; cf. Catal. Mus. Brit. 187.