NIZAM AL-DIN AL-HASAN BIN MUHAMMAD BIN HUSAYN AL-A'RAJ AL-QUMI AL-NISHABURI KNOWN AS NIZAM NISHABURI (FL. 13TH/14TH CENTURY): SHARH TADHKIRA AL-TUSI

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NIZAM AL-DIN AL-HASAN BIN MUHAMMAD BIN HUSAYN AL-A'RAJ AL-QUMI AL-NISHABURI KNOWN AS NIZAM NISHABURI (FL. 13TH/14TH CENTURY): SHARH TADHKIRA AL-TUSI

COPIED BY ABU AL-FADA'IL BIN MUHAMMAD KARDUVANI, TIMURID IRAN OR POSSIBLY OTTOMAN TURKEY, ASCRIPTION TO AH 892/1486-87 AD

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NIZAM AL-DIN AL-HASAN BIN MUHAMMAD BIN HUSAYN AL-A'RAJ AL-QUMI AL-NISHABURI KNOWN AS NIZAM NISHABURI (FL. 13TH/14TH CENTURY): SHARH TADHKIRA AL-TUSI
COPIED BY ABU AL-FADA'IL BIN MUHAMMAD KARDUVANI, TIMURID IRAN OR POSSIBLY OTTOMAN TURKEY, ASCRIPTION TO AH 892/1486-87 AD
Also known as Tawdih al-Tadhkira, An important commentary on Nasir al-Din Tusi's Tadhkira (Memoirs) composed in AH 711, on Astronomy, Arabic manuscript on paper, 132ff. plus three fly-leaves (including an index page), each folio with 23ll. of small neat black naskh script verging on nasta'liq, occasional words picked out in red, with numerous diagrams, of the original Tadhkira text in red and of the commentary in black, with occasional marginal notes, catchwords, a few skilful repairs throughout, colophon with signature of Abu al-Fada'il bin Muhammad al-Karudani and date of AH 892, foliated, with Persian and Ottoman seal impressions, some dated, later owners notes to f.1, some dated, a fly-leaf with index in black maghribi script, with marbled paper doublure, in Ottoman stamped reddish brown morocco binding with flap
Text area 7 ¼ x 4 ½in. (18.5 x 11.2cm.); folio 9 5/8 x 6 5/8in. (24.5 x 16.8cm.)

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The author of this work, Nizam al-Din al-Hasan bin Muhammad bin Husain al-A’raj al-Qumi al-Nishaburi, known as Nizam Nishaburi was probably born in Qum in northern Iran, and studied in Nishapur, Khurasan. He was a mathematician and astronomer and worked in the observatory of Al-Shirazi in Tabriz under the Ilkhanid rulers Ghazan Khan (r. 1295-1304 AD) and Uljaytu (r. 1304-1317 AD).

The author states in the text that that the work was commissioned for Mahmud bin al-Ra’is al-Yazdi, that he completed the composition in Rabi’ I AH 711/1311-12 AD, and that he has drawn Tusi’s original diagrams in red and the commentary's diagrams in black.

Some of the later owner's notes read as follow:
1. Ownership inscription and seal impression of Nur-al-Din Muhammad bin Abi al-Qasim bin Habibullah al-Wa’iz al-Isfahani. The seal impression is dated AH. 996 / 1587-88 AD.
2. Ownership inscription of ‘Ali [..], dated Safar AH 1054 / 1644-45 AD
3. Ownership inscription states that the manuscript was owned by Suleyman Durri, the Timekeeper at the mosque of Abu al-Fath Sultan Mehmed Khan (Sultan Mehmet II The Conqueror).

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