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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Didactic poetry Digitised Content No

1. Add MS 7556

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Add MS 7556
Title:
Twelve didactic poems on various sciences
Scope & Content:
Collection of twelve didactic poems in the rajaz metre (أراجيز) on jurisprudence (فقه), the calculation of inheritance shares (فرائض), and medicine (طب), grammar (نحو), and other sciences. A descriptive volume title has been written in black ink along the head edge of the folios: 'Poems on scie...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+391+i

2. Add MS 9599, ff 80v-118v

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Add MS 9599, ff 80v-118v
Title:
Commentary on a poem on calendrical calculations
Scope & Content:
Anonymous commentary on an anonymous didactic poem on calendrical calculations. The commentary was composed in 911/1505-06 (see f. 86v, line 17). The author of the commentary frequently refers to the Student's Method on Planetary Equations (منهاج الطالب في تعديل الكواكب), by the mathematician an...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 80v-118v

3. Add MS 9599, ff 255r-312r

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Add MS 9599, ff 255r-312r
Title:
Commentary on al-Urjūzah fī aḥkām al-nujūm (أرجوزة في أحكام النجوم) by ʻAlī Ibn Abī al-Rijāl (علي ابن أبي الرجال) Ibn al-Qunfudh, Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn ابن القنفذ، أحمد ابن حسين
Scope & Content:
Commentary by the scholar and judge (قاضي) of Constantine (قسنطينة, in mod. Algeria) Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī ibn al-Khaṭīb (أبو العباس أحمد بن الحسن بن علي بن الخطيب, d. 1407), known as Ibn Qunfudh (ابن قنفذ) on the Didactic Poem on Astrological Judgments (أرجوزة في أحكام النجو...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17 Rabīʻ II 1222
Extent:

Ff. 255r-312r