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Lot Essay
The texts included in the compendium are:
1. Abdul-Aziz ibn Muhammad al-Qahiri al-Wafa'i ibn al-Aqbai' (AH 811-circa 875/1408-circa 1470 AD): Risalah fi'l 'amal bi'l rub-i al-mujayyab, 'Treatise on the Knowledge of the Construction of Sine Quadrants'. Ibn al-Aqbai' was born in Cairo and was the timekeeper at the al-Muayyad Mosque.
2. Abu Nasr Mansur ibn 'Ali ibn 'Iraq al-Ja'di (d.1036): Risalah fi san'at al-astrulabbi'l tariq al-sina'iila abi 'Abdallah Muhammad ibn 'Ali al-Ma'muni, 'Letter to Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad ibn 'Ali al-Ma'muni on the Construction of the Astrolabe by a Method of Art', dated AH 890/1485-86 AD. Abu Nasr was a pupil of Abu'l Wafa in Baghdad and taught al-Biruni, see B.A. Rosenfeld and E. Ihsanoglu, Mathematicians, Astronomers & Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and their Works (7th - 19th c.), Istanbul, 2003, pp.114 - 115, no. 299, A 11.
3. Salah-ad-Din Musa ibn Muhammad ibn Mahmud Qadi-zadeh al-Rumi (circa 1440): Sharh ashkal al-ta'sis, 'Commentary on the Substantional Propositions of al-Samarqandi' dated 23 Jumada I 890/7 June 1485 AD. Qadi-zadeh al-Rumi was brought to Samarkand from Bursa where he became the astronomy teacher of Ulugh Beg, see Rosenfeld and Ihsanoglu, op.cit., pp.272-273, no. 808, M2.
4. 'Izz-ad-Din Abu'l-Fada'il 'Abdal-Wahhab ibn Ibrahim bin 'Abdul-Wahhab ibn Abi'l Ma'ali al-Khazraji al-Zanjani (D. AH 655/1257-58AD): Risalah kafiyya fi 'ilm al-hisab, 'Sufficient Treatise in the Science of Arithmetic', see Rosenfeld and Ihsanoglu, op.cit. p.207, no.589, M6.
5. Ghiyath-ad-Din Jamshid ibn Mas'ud al-Kashani (D.1436 AD): Al-Muftah, 'Key of Arithmetic', followed by a commentary, see Rosenfeld and Ihsanoglu, op.cit., pp. 269 - 271, no. 802, M1.
1. Abdul-Aziz ibn Muhammad al-Qahiri al-Wafa'i ibn al-Aqbai' (AH 811-circa 875/1408-circa 1470 AD): Risalah fi'l 'amal bi'l rub-i al-mujayyab, 'Treatise on the Knowledge of the Construction of Sine Quadrants'. Ibn al-Aqbai' was born in Cairo and was the timekeeper at the al-Muayyad Mosque.
2. Abu Nasr Mansur ibn 'Ali ibn 'Iraq al-Ja'di (d.1036): Risalah fi san'at al-astrulabbi'l tariq al-sina'iila abi 'Abdallah Muhammad ibn 'Ali al-Ma'muni, 'Letter to Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad ibn 'Ali al-Ma'muni on the Construction of the Astrolabe by a Method of Art', dated AH 890/1485-86 AD. Abu Nasr was a pupil of Abu'l Wafa in Baghdad and taught al-Biruni, see B.A. Rosenfeld and E. Ihsanoglu, Mathematicians, Astronomers & Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and their Works (7th - 19th c.), Istanbul, 2003, pp.114 - 115, no. 299, A 11.
3. Salah-ad-Din Musa ibn Muhammad ibn Mahmud Qadi-zadeh al-Rumi (circa 1440): Sharh ashkal al-ta'sis, 'Commentary on the Substantional Propositions of al-Samarqandi' dated 23 Jumada I 890/7 June 1485 AD. Qadi-zadeh al-Rumi was brought to Samarkand from Bursa where he became the astronomy teacher of Ulugh Beg, see Rosenfeld and Ihsanoglu, op.cit., pp.272-273, no. 808, M2.
4. 'Izz-ad-Din Abu'l-Fada'il 'Abdal-Wahhab ibn Ibrahim bin 'Abdul-Wahhab ibn Abi'l Ma'ali al-Khazraji al-Zanjani (D. AH 655/1257-58AD): Risalah kafiyya fi 'ilm al-hisab, 'Sufficient Treatise in the Science of Arithmetic', see Rosenfeld and Ihsanoglu, op.cit. p.207, no.589, M6.
5. Ghiyath-ad-Din Jamshid ibn Mas'ud al-Kashani (D.1436 AD): Al-Muftah, 'Key of Arithmetic', followed by a commentary, see Rosenfeld and Ihsanoglu, op.cit., pp. 269 - 271, no. 802, M1.