Jāmiʿ al-mabādiʾ wa-al-ghāyāt fī ʿilm al-mīqāt جامع المبادئ والغايات في علم الميقات Marrākushī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī مراكشي، الحسن بن علي

Or 5831, ff 1r-283r

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The record is made up of Ff. 1r-283r. It was created in 3 Ṣafar 1074. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.

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Encyclopaedia of practical astronomy and astronomical instruments by Sharaf al-Din Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Marrākushī (شرف الدين أبو علي الحسن بن علي بن عمر المراكشي, fl. second half of the 13th century). The treatise was composed in in the years 1276-82 (see Charette, 2007, p. 740).

The text is divided into four books (فنون), further subdivided variously into sections (أقسام), chapters (أبواب), parts (فصول), propositions (مقدمات), and questions (مسائل). A list of the four books is found on f. 2r:

  • Book One: Computational Methods (الفن الأول في الحسابيات, ff. 2r-49r);
  • Book Two: The Construction of Instruments (الفن الثاني في وضع الآلات, ff. 49r-188r);
  • Book Three: Using Instruments (الفن الثالث في العمل بالآلات, ff. 188r-270r);
  • Book Four: Questions (الفن الرابع في مطارحات, ff. 270r-285r).

The copy was completed on 3 Ṣafar 1074/6 September 1663 by Kalb (?) ‘Alī ibn Ṣafarqalī Sāwikh (?) Balāghī (كلب علي بن صفرقلي ساوخ بلاغي, see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 283r, transcribed below).

Begins (f. 1v, lines 3-6):

وصلى الله على محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم قال الحسن بن علي بن عمر المراكشي

غفر الله له أما بعد حمد الله والصلوة على محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم فإني رأيت كثيرًا من الناس يخضون

في وضع الآلات الفلكية والتحرير منهم لا يعرف من الحساب والهندسة والهيئة الذي هو مدار ماهم خايضون

فيه ...

Ends (f. 283r, lines 15-22):

... ومن أحاط علمًا بما ذكرته

من المسائل في هذا الكتاب من هذا

الباب قدر على استخراج

كثير من المسائل

بهذه الطريق

أعني طريق

الخبر (!)

والمقابلة

Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 283r, written to either side of explicit):

كتبه العبد الفقير الحقير كلب علي بن

صفرقلي ساوخ بلاغي غفر الله لهما

تحريرًا في تأريخ 3 شهر صفر بالختم والظفر

سنة 1074

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Ff. 1r-283r
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Arabic in Arabic script
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Or 5831, ff 1r-283r

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3 Ṣafar 1074 (AH, Hijri qamari)

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Ellis, A.G. and Edward Edwards, A Descriptive List of the Arabic Manuscripts Acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum since 1894 (London: British Museum, 1912), p. 38

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Translation of Book One and first three sections of Book 2:

  • Marrākushī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī, Traité des instruments astronomiques des Arabes , 2 Vols, trans. by Jean-Jacques Sédillot (Paris: l'Imprimerie Royale, 1834-35) (Reprint ed. by Fuat Sezgin, Frankfurt an Main: Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften, 1989)

Studies:

  • Charette, François, 'Marrākushī: Sharaf al-Dīn Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Marrākushī', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers , ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 739-40
  • Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th - 19th c.) (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), no. 592, pp. 207-8
  • Sédillot, Louis-Amélie, 'Mémoire sur les instruments astronomiques des Arabes' Méms. de l’Acad. Royale des Insers, et Belles-Lettres de l’Inst. de France 1 (1844), pp. 1-229 (Reprint ed. by Fuat Sezgin, Frankfurt an Main: Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften, 1989.)

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