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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Kindī, philosopher, d c 873

1. Add MS 7473, ff 175v-178v

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Add MS 7473, ff 175v-178v
Title:
Risālah fī mulk al-‘arab wa-kammīyatihi رسالة في ملك العرب وكميته Kindī كندي
Scope & Content:
Astrological treatise on Arab hegemony and its duration by the philosopher Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī (يعقوب بن إسحق الكندي; d. ca 873). The colophon (f. 178r, lines 3-4, transcribed below) states that the text was copied from an exemplar dated mid-Rabī‘ I 531/December 1136. Appended to the tex...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
639
Extent:

Ff. 175v-178v

2. Add MS 7514

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Add MS 7514
Title:
Treatise on swordmanship, archery and other military skills [Dhikr al-ʿamal bi-al-sayf] [ذكر العمل بالسيف]
Scope & Content:
Anonymous compendium on military technologies and skills. The manuscript is defective at the beginning and the author's name is unknown. The assumed title 'On Using the Sword' (ذكر العمل بالسف) is taken from a heading on f. 1r. The copy was completed on 9 Rabī' I 739/24 September 1338 by an ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
9 Rabī' al-Awwal 739
Extent:
Codex; ff. iii+65+iii

3. Add MS 23487

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Add MS 23487
Title:
Kitāb al-sūl wa-al-umnīyah fī taʿallum aʻmāl al-furūsīyah كتاب السول والأمنية في تعلم أعمال الفروسية [Aqsarā’ī, Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsá أقسرائي، محمد بن عيسى]
Scope & Content:
A Mamluk manual on horsemanship, military arts and technology, also known as Nihāyat al-sūl wa-al-umnīyah fī taʿlīm ʿamal al-furūsiyya (نهاية السول والأمنية في تعليم عمل الفروسية), attributed to Muḥammad ibn ‘Īsá ibn Ismā‘īl al-Ḥanafī al-Aqsarā’ī (أقسرائي، محمد بن عيسى بن اسماعيل) (died c.1349)....
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
20 Shaʿbān 785
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+166+iv; f. 1 missing.

4. Add MS 23488

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Add MS 23488
Title:
Kitāb al-suʾl wa-al-umnīyah fī taʿlīm al-furūsīyah كتاب السؤل والامنية في تعلم أعمال الفروسية Aqsarā’ī, Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsá أقسرائي، محمد بن عيسى
Scope & Content:
A Mamluk manual on horsemanship, military arts and technology, attributed to Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsá ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ḥanafī al-Aqsarāʾī (محمد بن عيسى بن إسماعيل الحنفي الأقسرائي, d. ca 1349). The copy was completed on 12 Rabīʻ II 1257/ 3 June 1841 by a scribe who names himself in the colophon simply as...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
12 Rabīʻ II 1257
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+154+iii

5. IO Islamic 1249, ff 111v-116r

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IO Islamic 1249, ff 111v-116r
Title:
كتاب إسقلاوس في المطالع Kitāb Isqilawus fī maṭāli‘ Hypsicles إبسقلاوس
Scope & Content:
Arabic version of the Anaphoricus (Ἀναφορικός; في المطالع) by the astronomer and mathematician Hypsicles of Alexandria (Ὑψικλῆς; إبسقلاوس [here written إسقلاوس and إيسقلاوس]; first half of 2nd century BC), translated from the Greek by Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا; d. ca 912), revised by al-Kindī...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Jumādá I 1198
Extent:

ff. 111v-116r

6. Or 2361, ff 165r-168r

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Or 2361, ff 165r-168r
Title:
[Risālah fī khubr taʾlīf al-alḥān] [رسالة في خبر تأليف الألحان] Kindī, Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq كندي، يعقوب بن إسحق
Scope & Content:
Unique copy of the earliest extant Arabic treatise on music, by Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī (يعقوب بن إسحق الكندي; d. ca 873), imperfect at the beginning. It is apparently a summary of an earlier and more extensive work by al-Kindī, no longer extant, entitled Great Book on the Composition of Music...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17 Rabīʿ II 1073
Extent:

Ff. 165r-168r