QUTB AL-DIN MAHMUD IBN MAS'UD IBN AL-MUSLIH AL-SHIRAZI (1236-1311): KITAB SHARH AL-TADHKIRA FI 'ILM AL-HAY'A
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QUTB AL-DIN MAHMUD IBN MAS'UD IBN AL-MUSLIH AL-SHIRAZI (1236-1311): KITAB SHARH AL-TADHKIRA FI 'ILM AL-HAY'A

COPIED BY THE AUTHOR, TABRIZ, DATED 10 RAMADAN 704/6 APRIL 1305

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QUTB AL-DIN MAHMUD IBN MAS'UD IBN AL-MUSLIH AL-SHIRAZI (1236-1311): KITAB SHARH AL-TADHKIRA FI 'ILM AL-HAY'A
COPIED BY THE AUTHOR, TABRIZ, DATED 10 RAMADAN 704/6 APRIL 1305
A commentary on a treatise on cosmography, Arabic manuscript on ivory paper, 165ff. plus 1 fly-leaf, each with 19ll. of informal black naskh, important words underlined or picked out in red, with several red circular diagrams, opening folio with title and author/copyist's name, colophon dated 10 Ramadan 704, brown leather binding covered in buff paper, some repairs, negligible water staining
Folio 7 x 5 in. (17.8 x 12.7cm.); Text approx. 5 1/8 x 3½in. (13 x 8.9cm.)
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Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi studied medicine and law under his father Mas'ud al-Qadharuni and was later the best pupil of al-Tusi in astronomy and philosophy. He worked as a judge in Sivas, Malatya (Anatolia) and various cities in North-West Iran as well as carrying out various diplomatic missions for Ilkhanid rulers. After one such mission for the Ilkhanid Ahmad Tekudar (1282-1284) in Egypt, al-Shirazi moved to Tabriz and worked in the courts of Ghazan Khan and Uljaytu as well as founding a new astronomical observatory and scientific school in Tabriz (Boris A.Rosenfeld and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and their works (7th-19th Century), [Research Centre for Islamic History Art and Culture], Istanbul, 2003, p. 233).

Immediately following the title on the first page, the author calls himself 'Qutb al-Din', however, further down on the same page he refers to himself as Mahmud bin Mas'ud bin al-Muslih al-Shirazi, the continuation of his title.

This precise text is unrecorded in the above reference book.

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