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Or 15643
- Record Id:
- 032-002739706
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002739706
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022574863.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023484179.0x000002
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 15643
- Title:
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Tuḥfat al-Fuḥūl fī tamhīd al-uṣūl fī ‘ilm al-biḥār تحفة الفحول في تمهيد الأصول في علم البحار
Mahrī, Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad مهري، سليمان بن أحمد
- Scope & Content:
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A manual on the principles of navigational theory by Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Mahrī (سليمان بن أحمد بن سليمان المهري, fl. 16th century), here called al-Muḥammadī (المحمدي), an Indian Ocean navigator from the city of al-Shiḥr (الشحر), Yemen. The treatise is arranged in seven parts (أبواب).
This copy was completed on 15 Jumādá II 1153/7 September 1740 at Ṣuḥār (صحار, in the Sultanate of Oman) by ‘Abd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Ma‘qilī al-Sa‘dī (عبد الله بن أحمد المعقلي السعدي; see colophon, f. 5r, lines 16-18, transcribed below).
Contents:
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):
الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا محمد النبي
بن عبد الله سيد الأولين والآخرين وعىل آله وأصحبه أجمعين
أما بعد فهذا كتاب لطيف حجمه كثير علمه في أصول علم البحر
Ends (f. 5r, lines 11-15):
... تنبيه اعلم أن
أخذ علم كل مكان من أهله فهو من أصح من أخذه من الغير
إلا أن كان الغير قد جربه وهو ممن يعتد به في الفن أو كان
ذلك الغير مجربًا محققًا وصاحب المكان قليل المعرفة بالفن
فمن المحقق أصح وبالله التوفيق وهو حسبنا ونعم الوكيل
Colophon (f. 5r, lines 16-18):
فرغ من نسخه عبد الله بن أحمد المعقلي السعدي ببندر
صحار يوم الربوع في خامس عشر من جمادى الثانية سنة
ثلاث وخمسين ومائة وألف والحمد لله وحده
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002739706
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002739706
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. 5+i
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022574863.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1740
- End Date:
- 1740
- Date Range:
- 15 Jumādá II 1153
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 220 x 145 mm leaf [159 x 104 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 26 lines per page; vertical spacing 16 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; the scribe is ‘Abd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Ma‘qilī (عبد الله بن أحمد المعقلي السعدي)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings
Binding: Morocco binding, with gold tooled borders
Condition: Excellent
Marginalia: None
- Custodial History:
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- Aḥmad ibn Ṣuhayb al-Qaḥṭānī (أحمد بن صهيب القحطاني), his inscription, undated (f. 1r);
- Sa‘d ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Anṣārī (سعد بن عبد الرحمن الأنصاري), his inscription, undated; this inscription refers to Aḥmad ibn Ṣuhayb al-Qaḥṭānī as the Omani (العماني; f. 1r);
- ‘Abd Allāh al-Qaṭāmī ibn ‘Abd al-Wahāb (عبد الله القطامي بن عبد الوهاب), his inscription dated Rajab 1286 (October-November 1869; f. 5r).
- Administrative Context:
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Ṣuḥār, Oman
- Publications:
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Edition:
- Arab Nautical Sciences: Navigational Texts and Their Analysis, vol. 1, Ibrahim Khoury, ed, (Damascus : Arab Academy of Damascus, 1970)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)