Item Summary

A commentary on al-Muqniʻ, a poem on algebra, by Shihab al-Dīn Ibn al-Hāʼim. Followed by a Turkish text on the quadrant.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب القول المبدع في شرح المقنع ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Qawl al-mubdiʻ fī sharḥ al-Muqniʻ ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 530H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc9306t889x
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1699
Format
Manuscript
Extent
50 leaves : paper ; 180 x 112 (133-160 x 70-76) mm. bound to 180 x 113 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures on title page (fol. 2a) include Janātīʹzādah[?]. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1048.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1491³.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1b: [astronomical inscription]
2. fol. 2a-36b: Kitāb al-Qawl al-mubdiʻ fī sharh al-Muqniʻ / lil-Shaykh Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī. In original colophon is a statement that the commentary was composed in 876 [1472].
3. fol. 37a: [fāʼidah]
4. fol. 38a-49a: Haza Risale-yi rub-ı daire. Text on the quadrant.
5. fol. 49b-50b: [miscellaneous inscriptions including of coordinates of Mecca and other cities among other topics]
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from title page (fol. 2a).
A few marginal notes. Inscriptions and short texts on upper pastedown, fol. 1a, 37a and 49b-50b.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 50 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Description: Written in Fārisī and other scripts ; text of Muqniʻ in red and commentary in black ; overlining in red ; watermarks (fol. 1-37: anchor, countermark, animal (lion?) ; fol. 38-50?: crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: [Qawl al-mubdiʻ] Copied Tuesday 2 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1012 (fol. 36b).
Incipit: [كتاب القول المبدع] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي جبر قلوب اوليائه بحسن المقابلة ... وبعد فيقول فقير رحمه ربه محمد بن محمد بن احمد بن محمد الغزالى الدمشقى اصلا والمصرى مولدا المشهور بسبط الماردينى ... -- [هذا رساله ربع دائره] الحمد الله الذى جعل على البحر الاخضر للفلك قناطر المقنطرات مستقية الى سموات ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من تعليق هذا الشرح المبارك يوم الثلاثاء ثاني شهر ربيع الثاني سنة اثني عشر بعد الالف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والتسليم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم وتسليما کثيرا دائما الى يوم الدين والحمد لله وحده -- [هذا رساله ربع دائره] تمت
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and marbled paper. Covers consist of two layers of paper. Some evidence that the pages have been trimmed.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad -1412—Muqniʻ fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah
Quadrants (Astronomical instruments)—Early works to 1800
Algebra—Early works to 1800
Mathematics, Arab—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
110

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b79997ec-924c-466c-815c-a289721b229f/manifest