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Or 12802
- Record Id:
- 032-002737443
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002737443
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022564524.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023320613.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 12802
- Title:
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Kitāb al-aḥkām ‘alá al-nisbah al-falakīyah كتاب الأحكام على النسبة الفلكية
Sahl ibn Bishr سهل بن بشر
- Scope & Content:
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A treatise on interrogatory astrology by Abū ‘Uthmān Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isrā’īlī (أبو عثمان سهل بن بشر الإسرائيلي; AD 786-c 845). The copy was produced by an anonymous scribe on the night of 5 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1093 (5 December 1682).
Folio 45r contains an astrological table written by a hand that appears to be later than that of the main scribe.
The text is divided into two chapters, each one subdivided into sections (أبواب). The first chapter gives an introduction to the science of astrology, and the second explains how answers to questions are to be found in the movements of the heavenly bodies. The first chapter of the treatise was translated into Latin as the Liber introductorius ad astrologiam or Introductorius ad scienciam iudiciorum astrorum in interrogationibus; the second chapter was translated as De interrogationibus.
Contents:
- Chapter One (ff. 1v-8v);
- Chapter Two (ff. 8v-44v).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):
قال سهل بن بشر الإسرائيلي اعلم أن البروج الإثنى عشر منها ستة ذكور
وستة الإناث فالحمل برج ذكر نهاري والثور برج أنثى ليلي وكذلك يتلو الذكر
الأنثى والأنثى الذكر إلى آخر البروج ...
Ends (f. 44v, 19-23):
فانظر إلى موضع السعود والنحوس في هذه المواضع الإثنى عشر فكلّ برج كان فيه سعد
وكان صاحبه مسعودَا فأقض على ما ينسب إلى جوهر ذلك البيت بالفرح والخير وأيما برج كان
فيه نحسّا وكان صاحبه منحوسًا أفسد كلّ ما نسب إلى ذلك البيت والله تعالى أعلم بالصواب
وإليه المرجع والمأب وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم تسليمًا
كثيرًا إلى يوم الدين ...
Colophon (f. 44v, 23-26):
... تمت الرسالة لسهل بن بشر الإسرائيلي
تحريرًا في ليلة الأحد المبارك 5 ذي الحجة الحرام
سنة 1093
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002737443
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002737443
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. iii+45+iii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022564524.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1682
- End Date:
- 1682
- Date Range:
- 5 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1093
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 204 x 142 mm leaf [154 x 105 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; quire marks on ff. 10, 20, 30 and 40 indicate quinions
Ruling: Misṭarah; 23 lines per page; vertical spacing 15 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red
Binding: British Museum binding
Condition: Minor water damage in outer margin towards middle of volume
Marginalia: Some on ff. 1r-7r
- Custodial History:
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- ‘Uthmān (عثمان), his endowment statement (waqfīyah), undated (f. 1r);
- Muḥammad ibn al-Shaykh ‘Umar al-Amyātī (?) al-Ḥanafī (محمد بن الشيخ عمر الامياتي), his inscription dated Rajab 1108 (January-February 1697; f. 1r);
- Maḥmūd Nājī (محمود ناجي), his inscription dated 11 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1333 (20 October 1915; f. 2r, top margin);
- Maḥmūd Nājī (محمود ناجي), his inscription dated 15 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1340 (10 October 1922) in which he commemorates the departure of his daughter Anīsah Nājī (أنيسة ناجي) for England to study medicine, and offers prayers for her success and safe return (f. 2r, outer margin).
- Administrative Context:
- Egypt?
- Publications:
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- Ullmann, Manfred, Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1972), pp. 309-10
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)