Four treatises on astrolabes and a bibliography of the works of Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرازي) [‎front] (1/246)

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Collection of four early treatises on astrolabes and associated astronomical instruments, bound together with a bibliography of the works of Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرازي).

A table of contents appears on f. 1v.

The scribe (of at least Item 5 [see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 113r, to the left of lines 17-18]) is ‘Alī ibn Yūsuf ibn Marwān (علي بن يوسف بن مروان)

A reader's note at the end of the first text (f. 36v, lines 6-7) is dated 683/1284-5 in the province of Dīyār Muḍar (ديار مضر) of the Jazīrah (in modern Syria, Turkey and Iraq).

A waqfīyah seal and associated ownership inscription (f. 2r) makes it clear that the manuscript was endowded to the madrasah of the Mosque of Abū Ḥanīfah (here called مدرسة الإمام الأعظم) in the al-A‘ẓamīyah (الأعظمية) region of North Baghdad by Mi‘mārzādah Ḥusayn al-Anṣārī al-Qādirī (معمار زاده حسين الأنصاري القادري) in the year 1290/1873-74.

Contents:

• (1) Abū al-Ṣalt (أبو الصلت), Risālah fī al-‘amal bi-al-aṣṭurlāb (رسالة في العمل بالأصطرلاب; ff. 2r-36v);
• (2) al-Farghānī (الفرغاني), al-Kāmil fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb (الكامل في صنعة الأسطرلاب; ff. 37v-85r);
• (3) Kitāb ‘aṣāh al-Ṭūsī wa-hūwa al-asṭurlāb al-khaṭṭī (كتاب عصاة الطوسي وهو الأسطرلاب الخطّي; ff. 86r-104v);
• (4) ‘Alī ibn ‘Īsá al-Asṭurlābī (علي بن عيسى الأسطرلابي), al-‘Amal bi-al-ṣafīḥah al-jāmi‘ah al-ma‘rūfah bi-al-āfāqīyah (العمل بالصفيحة الجامعة المعروفة بالآفاقية; ff. 105r-107v);
• (5) Fihrist kutub Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī al-mutaṭabbib wa-aghrāḍiha (فهرست كتب محمد بن زكريا الرازي المتطبب وأغراضها; ff. 108v-113r).

Extent and format

Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. ii+113+ii

Physical characteristics

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 235 x 165 mm leaf [180 x 125 mm written (ff. 2-85 and 108-113); 175 x 110 mm written (ff. 86-103)]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; the second and third texts (ff. 38-104) are also foliated in Eastern Arabic numerals in red and black ink; there are unfoliated leaves between ff. 36 and 37, and 107 and 108

Ruling: Misṭarah ; 19 to 21 lines per page (ff. 2-85 and 108-113) and 14 to 18 lines per page (ff. 86-103); vertical spacing 10 to 13 lines per 10 cm (ff. 2-85 and 108-113) and 9 to 11 lines per 10 cm (ff. 86-103)

Script: Naskh ; the scribe (of at least Item 5 [see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 113r, to the left of lines 17-18]) is ‘Alī ibn Yūsuf ibn Marwān (علي بن يوسف بن مروان)

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and tables and diagrams in red

Binding: British Museum binding in red leather with gold tooling

Condition: Some water damage and burn (?) marks on ff. 60-61; ff. 37-38 replaced with later paper; some edges torn and replaced

Marginalia: Infrequent, mostly maghribī and mostly in first text

Seals: F. 2r

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Arabic in Arabic script

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