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Or 9011
- Record Id:
- 032-003464778
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003464778
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100088054078.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100127495451.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 9011
- Title:
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Kitāb Jāmiʻ li-ʻilm aḥkām al-masāʼil
- Scope & Content:
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Comprehensive treatise on the science of prognostication through astrological interrogations. The manuscript does not state the text's author and the title has been derived from the preface (f. 3v, line 17). Confusion regarding the identity of the text and its author is expressed by a note dated 1307/1889-90 by Māhir (?) ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad (ماهر [؟] بن صالح ابن أحمد, f. 2r, see the provenance information in Custodial History).
The list of astrological subjects (f. 3v, lines 13-16) that directly precedes the title of the text given in the preface bears some similarity to the list given by Ullmann (Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam [Leiden: Brill, 1972], pp. 342-43) and Rosenfeld and Ihsanoğlu (Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.) [Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003], no. 635, pp. 226-27) of texts by the astronomer and mathematician Muḥyī al-Millah wa-al-Dīn Yaḥyá Abū ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Shukr al-Maghribī al-Andalusī (محيي الملة والدين يحيى أبو عبد الله بن محمد بن أبي الشكر المغربي الأندلسي, d. ca 1283), usually referred to as Ibn Abī al-Shukr (ابن أبي الشكر). According to the spine title printed on the manuscript's modern binding, the work contained is Ibn Abī al-Shukr's Small Compendium (الجامع الصغير). This identification is, however, not confirmed by comparison with that text in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Arabe 2594 (https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10037568z).
The colophon is dated 26 Rajab 1200 (14 May 1786), but since the scribe specifies that this date was a Monday when in fact it was a Thursday, perhaps Monday 16 Rajab 1200 (4 May 1786) was meant.
A table of contents is found on ff 1r-2r. The copyist has left numerous spaces for diagrams which have not been filled.
Begins (f. 3v, lines 2-10):
الحمد لله رب العزة الفاخرة والقدرة القاهرة والحجج الزاهرة
أحمده على نعمائه المتظاهرة واستغفره للذنوب السالفة
وأستعصمه للأيام المستأنفة وأسأله الصلاة على محمد
عبده الأمين وعلى آله الطيبين الطاهرين صلى الله عليه
وعليهم في الأولين والآخرين ووجدت فيما عبر لنا عن الأولين
مما أودعت كتبها من سرها المكنون مراتب العلم ثلاثة أعلاها
المعرفة وهو علم التوحيد المحمول عليه الخلق وأسفلها العلم
المدرك بالحواس وهو علم الطب وأوسطها العلم المدرك بالقياس
وهو علم النجوم ...
Ends (f. 347r, line 17-347v, line 1):
... وكذلك سهم الحاجة
إذا كان مع الدليل أو في الطالع دل على أمثال طبائعها
في ذلك الموضع وكذلك النحوس وعلى هذا فقس تصب
إن شاء الله تعالى والله سبحانه وتعالى أعلم بغيبه وأحكم
وهو حسبنا ونعم الوكيل ولا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله العلي
العظيم نعم المولى ونعم النصير ختم هذا الكتاب بحمد الله
وحسن توفيقه على التمام والكمال والحمد لله وحده
وصلى الله وسلم على من لا نبي بعده آمين والحمد لله رب
العالمين سبحان ربك رب العزة عما يصفون وسلام
على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين ...
Colophon (f. 347v, lines 1-8):
... وكان الفراغ من
ختم هذا الكتاب المبارك يوم الاثنين المبارك ستة
وعشرين من شهر رجب الفرد سنة ألف ومائتين
من الهجرة النبوية على
صاحبها أفضل
الصلاة وأزكى
التسليم
آمين
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003464778
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003464778
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. i+348+ii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100088054078.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1786
- End Date:
- 1786
- Date Range:
- Rajab 1200
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Physical characteristics:
Material: Western laid paper
Dimensions: 209 x 142 mm leaf [150 x 85 mm written]
Foliation: Arabic alphanumeric (abjad) foliation in black ink, British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 25 lines per page; vertical spacing 17 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink with rubricated headings
Decoration: None
Binding: British Museum binding in maroon buckram
Condition: Minor foxing and tidemarks in gutter at head and tail and in edge margin; iron-gall ink damage has caused discoloration to the paper and in some cases loss of text especially towards centre of volume; silk netting has been applied and paper has been repaired where iron-gall corrosion is particularly severe
Marginalia: Very few (mostly Persian)
Seals: F. 347v; British Museum stamp (ff. 3r and 348v)
- Custodial History:
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- Māhir (?) ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad (ماهر [؟] بن صالح ابن أحمد): his inscription with date 1307/1889-90, recording his purchase of the manuscript at Bursa and expressing his confusion as to the identity of the work it contains (f. 2r);
- Muḥammad Ḥāmid ibn Sulaymān Rīyāḍī (محمد حامد بن سليمان رياضي): his inscription and his seal with date 1173/1759-60 (f. 347v);
- Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān Khawājah Zādah (محمد بن سليمان خواجه زاده): his note in Arabic and Persian on astrological matters related to military operations and troop movement without date, and a horoscope diagram probably by his hand (f. 348v).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Isaac Benjamin Shlomo Ezekiel Yahuda (bookdealer at Cairo and brother of Abraham Shalom Yahuda, d. 1951), 8 October 1921
- Publications:
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Studies:
- Comes, Mercè, 'Ibn Abī al-Shukr: Muḥyī al-Milla wa-ʾl-Dīn Yaḥyā Abū ʿAbdallāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Shukr al-Maghribī al-Andalusī [al-Qurṭubī]' in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 548-49
- Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.), (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), no. 635, pp. 226-27
- Ullmann, Manfred, Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1972), pp. 342-43
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)