Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??
Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...
Add MS 23394
- Record Id:
- 032-003354908
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003354908
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100037573307.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100043804426.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 23394
- Title:
-
Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة
Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
and
al-Tabṣirah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah التبصرة في علم الهيئة
Kharaqī, ʻAbd al-Jabbār ibn ʻAbd al-Jabbār خرقي، عبد الجبار بن عبد الجبار
- Scope & Content:
-
Two treatises on astronomy.
Contents:
(1) al-Ṭūsī (الطوسي) Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة; ff. 2r-60v);
(2) al-Kharaqī (الخرقي), al-Tabṣirah fī ‘ilm al-hay’ah (التبصرة في علم الهيئة; ff. 61r-110r);
The copy was completed in 1107/1695-96 by Muḥammad Riḍā ibn ‘Azīz Allāh al-Tūnī (محمد رضا ابن عزيز الله التوني, see scribe's colophon, f. 110r, lines 12-13).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003354908", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 23394: Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah كتاب التذكرة في الهيئةṬūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003354909", "parent" : "032-003354908", "text" : "Add MS 23394, ff 2r-60v: Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah كتاب التذكرة في الهيئةṬūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn…" },{ "id" : "040-003354910", "parent" : "032-003354908", "text" : "Add MS 23394, ff 61r-110r: al-Tabṣirah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah التبصرة في علم الهيئةKharaqī, ʻAbd al-Jabbār ibn ʻAbd…" }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003354908
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Add MS 23394, ff 2r-60v : Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah كتاب التذكرة في الهيئةṬūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad…
Add MS 23394, ff 61r-110r : al-Tabṣirah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah التبصرة في علم الهيئةKharaqī, ʻAbd al-Jabbār ibn ʻAbd…
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Add MS 23394 - Hierarchy:
- 032-003354908
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 23394
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
-
Codex; ff. ii+111+iii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100037573307.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1695
- End Date:
- 1696
- Date Range:
- 1107
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
-
Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.
Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.
Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.
This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.
- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 335 x 210 mm leaf [275 x 140 (item 1: ff. 2r-60v), 265 x 145 mm written (item 2: ff. 61r-110r)]
Foliation: Eastern Arabic foliation in black ink; British Museum foliation in pencil; mid-quire marks (quinions) in the form of a small circle (or Eastern Arabic numeral 5) in upper left-hand corners of mid-quire versos
Ruling: Misṭarah; 15 lines per page (item 1: ff. 2r-60v), 17 lines per page (item 2: ff. 61r-110r); vertical spacing 6 lines per 10 cm (item 1: ff. 2r-60v), vertical spacing 7 lines per 10 cm (item 2: ff. 61r-110r)
Script: Naskh; the scribe (of at least item 2: ff. 61v-110r) is Muḥammad Riḍā ibn ‘Azīz Allāh al-Tūnī (محمد رضا ابن عزيز الله التوني, f. 110r, lines 12-13)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings, overlinings and diagrams in red
Binding: Black leather binding with red leather spine and blind-tooled border and medallion
Condition: Minor water stains worse towards front of volume
Marginalia: Very few
Seals: ff. 2r, 60v, 61v and 110r
- Custodial History:
-
- Seal, erased (f. 2r);
- Colonel Robert Taylor (1788-1852), Political Resident in Baghdad (1828-43): his seal, undated, with legend عبده تيلر (f. 2r);
- Aḥmad al-Suwaydī (أحمد السويدي): his inscription, without date (f. 2r);
- Inscription, defaced, with date 1228/1813 (f. 2r);
- Seal without name, with date 1114/1702-03 (ff. 60v and 61v);
- Seal, erased (f. 110r).
- Source of Acquisition:
-
Purchased from Mrs Taylor, widow of Colonel Robert Taylor (1788-1852), Political Resident in Baghdad (1828-43), 14 April 1860
- Finding Aids:
-
Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 1339, p. 620
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)