This volume contains the following two tracts :. (I) ff 1v-64v : Kadı Mir tercümesi, a compilation, without the author's name provided, from from the mathematical works of Qāḍī Mīr (Ḥusayn ibn Muᶜīn al-Dīn Maybūdī);. (II) ff 66v-255v : İlkilü't-teracim, an Ottoman Turkish translation, with some additional material, of Sharḥ al-hidāyat al-athīriyah (شرح الهداية الاثيرية), a commentary by Qāḍī Mīr on the Hidāyat al-ḥikmah (هداية الحكمة) of Abharī. The translation is by Mehmet İbn-i Mustafa el-Akkermani (died 1174 AH/1760-61 CE). This manuscript is undated, but was likely completed in the 18th century CE.
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- GB 59 Or 12745
- Dates of Creation
- 18th century
- Language of Material
- Turkish
- Physical Description
- 2 texts 255 ff Material : Paper. Foliation : European, 255 ff. Dimensions : 178 mm x 112 mm. Script : Nesih.
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Purchased by the British Museum from Dr. Oskar Rescher in August 1962.