Mathematics and Astronomy [IO Islamic 681]

<ul> <li><strong>Mathematics and Astronomy.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 681&nbsp;</strong><strong>in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth">&nbsp;<strong>Otto Loth,&nbsp;</strong></a><strong><em><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a></em>, (volume 1), no. 742&nbsp;here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>742.</p> <p>681. Size 8^1/2 in. by 4^3/4 in.; foll. 368. Twenty-nine lines in a page.</p> <p>A Commentary on <em>Ṭ&ucirc;s&icirc;&rsquo;s </em>تحرير المجسطى , by ABD AL-&lsquo;AL&Icirc; b. Muḥammad al- Ḥusain,- that is, probably, Niẓ&acirc;m al-d&icirc;n &lsquo;Abd al-&lsquo;al&icirc; b. Muḥammad Barjand&icirc;, who flourished towards the end of the ninth century. Cf. Cat. St. Petersb. 111, and below, no. 754.</p> <p>Begins: الحمد لله الذى جعلنا من المتفكرين فى خلق السموات و الارض .</p> <p>This is a commentary by قوله . It is founded upon glosses on the same work, which the author wrote at an earlier period. He speaks of the commentary of Niẓ&acirc;m al-d&icirc;n al-Ḥasan N&icirc;s&acirc;b&ucirc;r&icirc; ¹ as being too short and insufficient.</p> <p>Written in a small hand.</p> <p>Seal of &lsquo;Aẓ&icirc;m (?), a servant of Muḥammad Sh&acirc;h (A.H.1135).</p> <p>[Johnson.]</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>¹ He wrote A.H. 704; cf. Catal. Mus. Brit. 187.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>