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Or 3624
- Record Id:
- 032-003381767
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003381767
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100049326410.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100066399088.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 3624
- Title:
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al-Zīj al-mukhtār min al-azyāj الزيج المختار من الأزياج
Abū al-ʿUqūl, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad أبو العقول، محمد بن أحمد
- Scope & Content:
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Astronomical handbook (زيج) by Abū al-‘Uqūl Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī (أبو العقول محمد بن أحمد الطبري, fl. ca 1300), teacher of astronomy at the Mu’ayyadīyah Madrasa (المدرسة المؤيدية), in Ta‘izz (تعز), Yemen, under the Rasulid Sultan al-Malik al-Mu’ayyad Dāwūd ibn Yūsuf I (الملك المؤيد داوود بن يوسف, reg. 1296-1321). The zīj is divided into two treatises (مقالتان): Treatise One (المقالة الأولى, ff. 3r-69v) contains the text, while Treatise Two (المقالة الثانية, ff. 70r-199r) contains the tables. Two tables of contents, one for each treatise, are found on f. 2v.
The tenth quire (ff. 77-84) has been bound upside down. A note in English signed W.C. (= William Cureton?) and bound into the volume as f. 200 contains some basic information about the text and manuscript.
The copy was completed on Saturday 13 Shawwāl 1007/8 May 1599 (see colophon, f. 119v, line 5, transcribed below).
Begins (f. 3v, lines 2-4):
الحمد لله الذي خلق السبع الطباق ورفع سمكها فسواها وزينها بالكواكب الظاهرة
الإشراق ليهتدي بها في ظلمات والبر والبحر وحلاها وقدر القمر منازل وأنار به الأغساق
وأوضح به معالم الحساب وجلاها وأبان أياته في الأنفس والآفاق ...
Ends (f. 119v, lines 1-4):
وإذ قد أتينا على ما وعدنا به في أول الكتاب فلنختم المقالة الثانية بما بدأنا به فنقول المحد لله
الذي ليس له كفوء ولا نظير ولا شريك ولا وزير ولا معين ولا ظهير وصلى الله على رسوله سيدنا
محمد البشير النذير السراج المنير وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين وسلم سلامًا متصلًا إلى يوم
الدين وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل ونعم المولى ونعم النصير ...
Colophon (f. 119v, lines 4-5):
... تم الزيجم المختار بعون الله
وحسن توفيقه في يوم السبت ثالث عشر شهر شوال أحد شهور سنة ألف وسبع هجرية على صاحبها وآله وصحبه أفضل الصلاة والتسليم
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003381767
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003381767
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. iv+1+i+200+iv
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100049326410.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1599
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 13 Shawwāl 1007
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Western laid paper
Dimensions: 295 x 200 mm leaf [245 x 140 mm written]
Foliation: Eastern Arabic foliation in black ink; quire signatures (quaternions) in the form of Eastern Arabic numerals in black ink, overlined and circled in red are found in upper edge margins of rectos; British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: No ruling visible; 25 lines per page; vertical spacing 11 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings, punctuation and some elements of tables in red
Decoration: Calligraphic title page (f. 3r), first opening (ff. 3v-4r) has text frame in red
Binding: British Museum half-leather binding
Condition: Some foxing and stains, minor insect damage
Marginalia: Some, by more than one hand
Seals: f. 3r
- Custodial History:
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- Aḥmad [ibn ‘Abd al-Mun‘im] al-Damanhūrī (أحمد [بن عبد المنعم] الدمنهوري, d. 1778), Shaykh al-Azhar (شيخ الأزهر): his inscription recording his endowment of the manuscript to the Mosque of al-Azhar in Cairo, and his seal, date illegible (f. 3r; see also notes to the same effect, without seal, in head margin f. 13r and ca every 10th folio thereafter);
- Ottoman seal with ṭughrá, erased and semi-legible (f. 3r).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased at Sotheby's 8 November 1888
- Finding Aids:
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Rieu, Charles, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 768, pp. 525-26
- Publications:
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Studies:
- Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.), (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), no. 653, p. 230
- King, David A., 'Abū al-‘Uqūl: Abū al-‘Uqūl Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007), p. 10
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)