Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Or 16420 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Oriental Manuscripts

Persian translation of Chaghnini's treatise on astronomy

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1 copy of Ghiyās̲īyah by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad Haravī

A rare brief treatise on astronomy, completed in 803/1400-1, by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad Haravī, who was apparently vizier to Shah Rukh. Essentially a translation of Chaghmīnī’s Arabic treatise al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī l-hay’a, Ghiyāsiyya comprises a muqaddima and two maqālas. It is dedicated (henced the title) to Ghiyās al-Dīn Sayyid Aḥmad Haravī.

For details on Ghiyāsiyya, see FNKhF I, p. 331, which lists only three manuscripts. Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd Haravī does not appear in Storey, PL, which does however include two Persian commentaries on Chaghmīnī (see PL II/1 E, p. 50. For Chaghmīnī and his Mulakhkhaṣ see Storey, loc. cit.; Brockelmann, GAL I, p. 473 and S I, p. 865.

Begins: Basmala Sipās-i nā-ma‘dūd va sitāyash-i nā-maḥdūd Āfarīdagārī-rāst ki tadvīr-i davāyir-i tis‘a aflāk ... Chunīn gūyad muḥarrir-i īn maqāla va muqarrir-i īn risāla

Ends: Va īn sāl az sāl-i shamsī-i ḥaqīqī kamtarast ba-dah rūz va has[h]t sā‘at va nīm ba-taqrīb Va LLāh a‘lam ... Ba-amr-i Khwāja-’i Āfāq Āṣaf-i sānī ... Ghiyās-i Dawlat va Dīn ... házih al-kitāb (sic) Mulḥaq Chaghmīnī min taṣnīf Mullā ‘Alī al-Kāshifī raḥmat Allāh ‘alayh

Undated: ca. 10th-11th/16th-17th century.

Clear nasta‘līq. 13 lines. Red headings. Thin off-white paper; some light worming. 58 folios. 195 x 149 mm.; text lines 134 x 87 mm. Worn half red goatskin covers, faced with pink and blue marbled paper.

Purchased from M Moin, 30 August 2007.

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 58 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 195 × 149 mm.
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History

Origin: 16th-17th centuries CE ; India or Iran

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.

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