A COMPENDIUM OF MATHEMATICAL TEXTS
A COMPENDIUM OF MATHEMATICAL TEXTS

PROBABLY IRAN, DATED AH 890/1485-86 AD

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A COMPENDIUM OF MATHEMATICAL TEXTS
PROBABLY IRAN, DATED AH 890/1485-86 AD
Comprising five texts, Arabic manuscript on paper, 95ff. plus 9 fly-leaves, each folio with lines of black naskh or nasta'liq, catchwords, important words and phrases picked out in red, occasional marginal notes, some of the treatise with diagrams in red and black, colophon of the first treatise dated AH 890, some water staining, in later red morocco with gilt borders, brown morocco doublures
Folio 7 1/8 x 5in. (18 x 12.6cm.)

拍品專文

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.

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