Abstract: Compendium on astronomy, comprising an introduction and two parts (maqālah).Binding note: Limp binding. Brown leather with colored paper pastedown. Blind tooled mandorla on both covers.Ms. codex.Title from beginning of text (fol. 3a).13 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Contains diagrams in red and black ink. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. European glazed paper with watermark. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Inscription in Arabic on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Riyāḍiyāt 46". Inscription in Arabic on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 1056/6".According to R. Mach, this copy dates from the 10th or 11th century H.Incipit: الحمد للّه كفآء افضاله والصلوة ... قال الامام الاجلّ ... محمود بن عمر الجغمينى الخوارزمى ان نقل اعزّة الاحباب ... محمد بن بهرام القلانسي ... اشار ان اجمع فى علم الهيئة كتابا يقرن بين الاختصار والبيان ويجمع ايجاز اللفظ الى بسط المعانىExplicit: و لعل هذا المقدار الذى اورد كاف لتحصيل ما ارادوا و ... الاشارة اليه فالاولى ان اقتصر عليه وليكن هذا خاتمة الكتاب والله اعلم بالصواب تم
Abstract: Collection of a compendium on astronomy, with two commentaries.Binding note: Quarter bound with flap (paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, and envelope flap ; dark brown leather spine and fore-edge flap). Paper pastedowns.Contents: 1. fol. 1b-19a: al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah / Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Jaghmīnī.Contents: 2. fol. 20a-89b: Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah / li-Kamāl al-Dīn al-Tūrākānī sic, fol. 20a: actually al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī, see colophon, fol. 89b.Contents: 3. fol. 90a-139a: Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah aceph. / Kamāl al-Tūrākānī.Ms. codex.Title provided by cataloger.Physical description: 17-18 lines per page. Written in medium small taʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Contains diagrams in red and black ink. Light biscuit paper, glossy, with laid lines and chain lines, and pulp visible. Marginal annotations. Several inscriptions and short texts on pastedowns and on fol. 1a, in Arabic and Persian, including a mention of astronomical signs related to events dating to the years 1022 H. and 1073 H., from the margins of a majmūʻah. Kabīkaj on fol. 20a. Last word of verso repeated on next recto. Waqf (see inscription on upper margin of fol. 114a). Margins worm-eaten.Origin: Text 1 and 2 copied in 884 H. 1479 or 1480 (colophons, fol. 19a and 89b). Text 3 ends on a colophon stating that it was written by the author, Kamāl al-Tūrākānī, in Gulistān, on 26 Ramaḍān 755 Oct. 14, 1354 (fol. 139a). This appears to be the colophon of the exemplar, since the text seems to be written by the same hand and on the same paper as the two first text in the volume. See also Princeton University Library. Islamic mss. Garrett no. 505H.
Abstract: Compendium on astronomy, comprising an introduction and two parts (maqālah).Binding note: Marbled paper pasted on brown leather for upper and lower covers.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 2a).13 lines per page. Contains diagrams. The ms. can be divided in three parts in different scripts (and paper?): fol. 2-10; 11-22; 23-30. Fol. 1 and 31 and later fly-leaves of glazed European paper with watermark. Catchword on the verso of most leaves.Inscription in Arabic on a label pasted on the upper cover: "47 Riyāḍīyāt". Inscription in Arabic on a label pasted on the interior of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 65".According to R. Mach, this copy dates from the 10th century H.Incipit: الحمد للّه كفآء افضاله والصلاة ... يقول ... محمود بن محمد بن عمر الجغمينيّ الخوارزمي ... انّى الفت هذا الكتاب فى هيئة العالم تذكرة مني لكل عالم منحريا التلخيص مع البيان وايجاز الالفاظ الى بسط المعانيExplicit: و لعل هذا المقدار الذى اورد كاف لتحصيل ما اردت فليكن هذا اخر الكتاب تم كتاب الملخص فى هيئة الافلاك