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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 7473 Name 'Alī ibn Riḍwān, d c 1068 Digitised Content Platform Qatar Digital Library

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

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