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Or 14270
- Record Id:
- 032-002360268
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002360268
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000094.0x000095
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023384406.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 14270
- Title:
- Three technological treatises
- Scope & Content:
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Volume containing three technological treatises:
- Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-binkamāt (كتاب أرشميدس في عمل البنكامات, ff. 2v-14r);
- Apollonius the carpenter and geometer (أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي), San‘at al-zāmir (صنعة الزامر, ff. 14r-21r);
Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (فرغاني، أحمد بن محمد), al-Kāmil fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb al-shimālī wa-al-junūbī wa-‘ilalihuma bi-l-handasah wa-al-ḥisab (الكامل في صنعة الأسطرلاب الشمالي والجنوبي وعللهما بالهندسة والحساب, ff. 21v-73r).
The title page (f. 2r) reads: Kitāb ‘Amal al-sā‘āt li-Arshimīdas wa-Kitāb ‘Amal al-asṭurlāb lil-Farghānī (كتاب عمل الساعات لأرشميدس وكتاب عمل الأسطرلاب للفرغاني).
The manuscript contains forty-five illustrations and forty-five tables.
The colophon (f. 71r) records the copyist's name as ‘Umar ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah, and the completion date as 28 Shawwāl 691/12 October 1292. A notes on the title page (f. 2r) and beneath the colophon (f. 71r ) identify the copyist as the Ibn Ṭalḥah who authored the Key of Jafr (مفتاح الجفر), a work on shī‘ī apocalyptic and divination. The death date ascribed to Ibn Ṭalḥah the author of the Key of Jafr, however, is 652/1254-5, 39 years before the manuscript was copied.
Notes concerning the astrolabe are found on folio 1r, and a list of illustrations in Farghānī's al-Kāmil fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb (item 2 in this manuscript) is found on folio 1v.
A quire of eight leaves (quaternion) has been lost between folios 24 and 25 (marked 23 and 32 respectively in the Arabic-Indic foliation). Although the quire signatures here are consecutive (the fifth quire beginning on f. 25 and the sixth quire on f. 33), the loss of a quire has between these two quires is further indicated by the fact that the end of Chapter Two (النوع الثاني; begins f. 24v) and the beginning of Chapter Three (ends f. 28r) are both missing.
The box containing this volume also holds the volume's previous binding, and fragments of texts on papers retrieved from the previous binding. Two paper leaves that appear to have been the right and left doublures respectively of the previous binding have been bound into the volume as frontpaper ii and endpaper i.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002360268
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Or 14270, ff 2v-14r : Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-binkamāt كتاب أرشميدس في عمل البنكاماتArchimedes أرشميدس
Or 14270, ff 14r-21r : San‘at al-zāmir صنعة الزامرApollonius the carpenter and geometer أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي
Or 14270, ff 21v-73r : al-Kāmil fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb al-shimālī wa-al-junūbī wa-‘ilalihuma bi-l-handasah wa-al-ḥisab…
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- 032-002360268
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Codex; ff. i+73+i
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000094.0x000095
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1292
- End Date:
- 1292
- Date Range:
- 28 Shawwāl 691
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 254 x 185 mm leaf [198 x 135 mm written]
Foliation: Arabic-Indic foliation in black ink; British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 19 lines per page; vertical spacing 10 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; the scribe is ‘Umar ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah (f. 71r)
Ink: Black carbon ink, with rubricated headings, overlinings and some diagrams in red
Binding: British Museum binding; some quire signatures visible (quaternions)
Condition: Wormholes, some repaired; grime and ink stains frequent
Marginalia: Some corrections and annotations by various hands
Seals: Frontpaper ii and endpaper i
- Publications:
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- On the Construction of Water-Clocks. Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-binkamāt, Donald R. Hill ed. and trans., Turner and Devereux Occasional Papers no. (London, Turner and Devereux, 1976)
- Al-Farghānī On the Astrolabe, Richard Lorch ed. and trans. (Munich: Franz Steiner, 2005)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)