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Or 10975
- Record Id:
- 032-003256828
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003256828
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100027678232.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100036006048.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 10975
- Title:
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‘Ajā’ib al-aqālīm al-sab‘ah عجائب الأقاليم السبعة
Suhrāb سهراب
- Scope & Content:
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Treatise on mathematical geography for cartographers by Suhrāb (سهراب; see f. 3, line 1) composed between between 902 and 945 (see LeStrange, 'Description of Mesopotamia and Baghdād', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society [1895], p. 2).
According to the colophon (f. 63r, lines 4-15, transcribed below), this copy was made from the copy of a correct copy that Ibn al-Warraq (ابن الوراق, probably the bibliographer Ibn al-Nadīm [ابن النديم], d. ca 995) said was in the handwriting of the Syriac bishop and lexicographer al-Ḥasan ibn Bahlul (الحسن ابن بهلول, called here ابن البهلول, better known by his Syriac name Bar Bahlūl [ܒܪ ܒܗܠܘܠ]; fl. 10th century) translator from Syriac into Arabic of the Kunnāsh, or medical compendium, of Ibn Serapion (ابن سرابيون; fl. 9th century).
Due to the mention of Ibn Serapion in the colophon, scholars have often attibuted this work to Ibn Serapion. The colophon does not, however, mention Ibn Serapion in order to name him as the author of the ‘Ajā’ib al-aqālīm al-sab‘ah, but rather to identify Bar Bahlūl. Furthermore, since the physician Ibn Serapion is thought to have written his Kunnāsh in 873, while the geographer Suhrāb is thought to have written the ‘Ajā’ib al-aqālīm al-sab‘ah some time between 902 and 945, it is not likely that these two books are the works of the same author (see Ullmann, Die Medizin im Islam [Leiden: Brill, 1970], p. 102 and LeStrange, 'Description of Mesopotamia and Baghdād', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society [1895], p. 2).
This copy is defective at the beginning, and the text on f. 1r starts in the chapter on 'The Sea of Ifrīqīyah, Cyrenaica, Egypt, the Levant and Anatolia', at p. 58, line 4 of the edition by Mžik (Wien: 1930, Leipzig).
The head edge of the volume is inscribed, but the inscription is illegible.
This copy was completed at Baghdad on 23 Ramaḍān 711/2 February 1312 by Maḥmūd ibn al-Muhadhdhī (?) ibn Shawkah al-Asṭurlābī al-Baghdādī (محمود بن المهذي بن شوكة الأسطرلابي البغدادي), who made the copy for his own use (see colophon, f. 63r, lines 5-9, transcribed below).
This copy contains the following diagrams:
- Twelve tables containing the names of mountains with their latitudes and longitudes, coulours and locations of their peaks, arranged by clime and beginning with those south of the equator (ff. 13r-18v)
Begins (f. 1r, lines 1-4):
ثم يمر إلى طول مه ك وعرض م ل ثم يمر إلى طول مول وعرض موك
ثم يمر بمصب نهرين عند طول مه ه وعرض م ه ثم يمر إلى طول
مول وعرض لط ل ثم يمر إلى طول مه ل وعرض لط يه ثم يمر إلى طول
مول وعرض لط ه ثم يمر إلى طول مري وعرض لوي ثم يمر إلى موي
Ends (ff. 62v, line 10-63r, line 3):
... فإذا تكاملت العيون والأنهار
وصحت من أوائلها وجرت إلى أواخر مصباتها وتفرع
بعضها من بعض وصب بعضها إلى بعض فقد استتممت عملها
واحتجت إلى أن تبتدئ بعد ذلك بعمل صور المدن العظام
المشهورة وكيف هيئة كل مدينة منها وإخبارها وصفتها
ونعتها وشربها وانحراف قبلتها حتى تأتي على جميع مدن الأرض
وبالله تستعين. وإن أردت أن تكتب بعد صورة كل
مدينة خبرها فاكتبه إلى جنبها أو حولها فإنه أحسن ما يكون وأظرفه
Colophon (f. 63r, lines 4-15):
نقلت من نسخة نقلت من نسخة صحيحة ذكر
ابن الوراق أنها بخط ابن البهلول الذي أصلح كناش
ابن سرابيون وقوبل بها نسخة أخرى فكانت
فيها زيادة وهي المواضع التي يذكرها حدود البلدان
وقد كتبناها بعد هذا الموضع. وكتب
محمود بن المهذي بن شوكة الأسطرلابي البغدادي
بمدينة السلام لنفسه تعليقًا ووقع الفراغ في يوم
الأربعاء ثالث عشرين رمضان من سنة أحد عشر
وسبعمائة والحمد لله هما هو أهله ومستحقه
وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد المصطفى خاتم النبيين
وعلى آله وعترته الطاهرين وسلم تسليمًا
كثيرًا إلى يوم الدين
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003256828
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003256828
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. i+63+i
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100027678232.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1312
- End Date:
- 1312
- Date Range:
- 23 Ramaḍān 711
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 235 x 150 mm leaf [167 x 110 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Pricking; bounding and ruling lines incised; 15 lines per page; vertical spacing 9 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; the scribe is Maḥmūd ibn al-Muhadhdhī (?) ibn Shawkah al-Asṭurlābī al-Baghdādī (محمود بن المهذي بن شوكة الأسطرلابي البغدادي; see colophon, f. 63r, line 9)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings
Binding: British Museum binding
Condition: Waterstains
Marginalia: Marginal notes by more than one hand; see in particular f. 23r
Seals: ff. 1r, 4r, 9r, 14r, 17r, 24r, 30r, 34r, 41r, 44r, 49r, 56r, 61r, 63r
- Custodial History:
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- Abū Ṭālib (أبو طالب), his seal, dated 1240/1824-5 (ff. 1r [covering earlier, erased seal], 4r, 9r, 14r, 17r, 24r [date especially clear], 30r, 34r, 41r, 44r, 49r, 56r, 61r, 63r);
- W(ladimir) Ivanow (Vladimir Alexeyevich Ivanov, 1886-1970), his inscription dated November 1928, at Shiraz (f. 1r).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased, 12 January 1929, from from Wladimir Ivanow (Vladimir Alexeyevich Ivanov, 1886-1970)
- Publications:
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Edition:
- Kitāb ʿaġāʾib al-aḳālīm as-sabʾa des Suhrāb, edited by H.v. Mžik (Wien: 1930, Leipzig)
Partial edition and English translation:
- LeStrange, Guy. 'Description of Mesopotamia and Baghdād, Written About the Year 900 A.D. By Ibn Serapion. The Arabic Text Edited from a MS. In the British Museum Library, with Translation and Notes', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1895), pp. 1-76 and 255-315
Studies:
- Sezgin, Fuat, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, vol. 13 (Leiden: Brill, 2007), pp. 248-52
- Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 102-03
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Bar Bahlul, Ḥasan, translator, lexicographer, fl 10th century
Suhrāb, fl 0902-0945 - Subjects:
- Geography--Early works to 1800
