Kamal al-Din Husain al-Wa'iz ibn 'Ali al-Bayhaqi, known as al-Kashifi (d. AH 910/AD 1504-05), Lawa'ih al-qamar, Radiances of the Moon, also called Lawa'ih al-qamar dar ikhtiyar-i sa'at, Radiances of the Moon on the Choice of Hours, the last part of...
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Persian manuscript on paper, 84 leaves, incomplete at end, 25 lines to the page written in naskhi script in black ink, significant words and sentences underlined in red, titles picked out in red, numerous tables and diagrams, catchwords in wide outer margins, contemporary brown morocco, rebacked, 205 x 120 mm.; and Banu Musa, Kitab Ma'rifat misahat al-ashkal al-basita wa'l-kuriyya, Book of the Knowledge of Measuring Plane and Spherical Figures, Persia, 19th Century, Arabic manuscript on beige paper, 20 leaves, 18 lines to the page written in neat naskhi script in black ink, significant words picked out in red, inner margins ruled in gold, catchwords, illustrated with diagrams, one illuminated headpiece, some crude repairs, modern brown morocco
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A. The author, al-Kashifi, from Bayhaq near Marv, was brother-in-law of the poet Jami and friend of the poet Nava'i. He worked in Nishapur, Mashhad and Herat, compiled a commentary on the Qur'an and was also an astronomer. See B. A. Rosenfeld, E. Ihsanoglu, Mathematicians, Astronomers and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and their Works (7th?19th C.), Istanbul 2003, p. 305, no. 898.
B. The author, Banu Musa, was in fact the three sons, Muhammad, Ahmad and al-Hasan, of Musa ibn Shakir, a robber in his youth from Khurasan who became an astrologer. The Abbasid Caliph al-Ma'mun (AD 813?833) took care of the three sons after the death of their father, and they excelled in mathematics, astronomy, geometry and mechanics. Their knowledge of Greek scientific literature was perfect and they led the astronomical observations in Baghdad and organized a school of translators who rendered many Greek scientific manuscripts into Arabic. See B. A. Rosenfeld, E. Ihsanoglu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and their Works (7th?19th C.), Istanbul 2003, pp. 34?36, no. 74.
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Persian manuscript on paper, 84 leaves, incomplete at end, 25 lines to the page written in naskhi script in black ink, significant words and sentences underlined in red, titles picked out in red, numerous tables and diagrams, catchwords in wide outer margins, contemporary brown morocco, rebacked, 205 x 120 mm.; and Banu Musa, Kitab Ma'rifat misahat al-ashkal al-basita wa'l-kuriyya, Book of the Knowledge of Measuring Plane and Spherical Figures, Persia, 19th Century, Arabic manuscript on beige paper, 20 leaves, 18 lines to the page written in neat naskhi script in black ink, significant words picked out in red, inner margins ruled in gold, catchwords, illustrated with diagrams, one illuminated headpiece, some crude repairs, modern brown morocco
199 x 125 mm.(2)
A. The author, al-Kashifi, from Bayhaq near Marv, was brother-in-law of the poet Jami and friend of the poet Nava'i. He worked in Nishapur, Mashhad and Herat, compiled a commentary on the Qur'an and was also an astronomer. See B. A. Rosenfeld, E. Ihsanoglu, Mathematicians, Astronomers and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and their Works (7th?19th C.), Istanbul 2003, p. 305, no. 898.
B. The author, Banu Musa, was in fact the three sons, Muhammad, Ahmad and al-Hasan, of Musa ibn Shakir, a robber in his youth from Khurasan who became an astrologer. The Abbasid Caliph al-Ma'mun (AD 813?833) took care of the three sons after the death of their father, and they excelled in mathematics, astronomy, geometry and mechanics. Their knowledge of Greek scientific literature was perfect and they led the astronomical observations in Baghdad and organized a school of translators who rendered many Greek scientific manuscripts into Arabic. See B. A. Rosenfeld, E. Ihsanoglu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and their Works (7th?19th C.), Istanbul 2003, pp. 34?36, no. 74.
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