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Add MS 7492
- Record Id:
- 032-003693959
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003693959
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100106885028.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143617160.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 7492
- Title:
- Four treatises on astronomy and calendrics
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
- (1) Sharḥ mukhtaṣar fī maʿrifat al-taqāwīm (شرح مختصر في معرفة التقاويم, ff. 1r-48r);
- (2) Dar yāftan-i avval-i sāl-i suryāni (در يافتن أول سال سرياني, f. 48v);
- (3) Anonymous treatise on the calculation of days and months (ff. 49v-52r);
- (4) al-Abharī (الأبهري), al-Zīj al-shāmil (الزيج الشامل, ff. 52v-66v).
According to the colophon to the first text (f. 48r, lines 17-22, the only colophon in the volume), it was completed at noon on Tuesday, 25 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 912/18 April 1507 by the scribe Dadah ibn Muṣṭafá (دده ابن مصطفى), in Amasya (أماسية, in modern-day Turkey).
The second text treats the same subject as the third, but is written in Ottoman Turkish.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Tree:
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- 032-003693959
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Add MS 7492, ff 1r-48r : Sharḥ mukhtaṣar fī maʿrifat al-taqāwīm شرح مختصر في معرفة التقاويم
Add MS 7492, f 48v : Dar yāftan-i avval-i sāl-i suryāni در يافتن أول سال سرياني
Add MS 7492, ff 49v-52r : Anonymous treatise on the calculation of days and months
Add MS 7492, ff 52v-66v : al-Zīj al-Shāmil الزيج الشامل [Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī, al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʿUmar أثير…
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ii+1+i+47+iii+20+iii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100106885028.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
Farsi
Persian
Turkish, Ottoman - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1507
- End Date:
- 1507
- Date Range:
- 25 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 912
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Thin, burnished Western laid paper
Dimensions: 196 x 131mm leaf [133 x 69 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil (older pencil foliation crossed out on ff. 50r-68r [formerly 49r-67r]); Eastern Arabic foliation in red ink (to f. 48r, end of first text in volume)
Ruling: Misṭarah; 21 lines per page; vertical spacing 16 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; the scribe is Dadah ibn Muṣṭafá (دده ابن مصطفى, see f. 48r, lines 18-19)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red
Decoration: None
Binding: Beige British Museum half leather binding
Condition: Good condition, a few ink stains and smudges
Marginalia: Intermittent marginal notes throughout, interlinear Persian explanations towards front of volume
Seals: ff. 2r and 66v; British Museum stamps: ff. 1r, 31r, 43r, 48v, 58r and 68v
- Custodial History:
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- Inscription (Qur'ān 48:1), with date 1130/1717-18 (f. 1v);
- Seals (Qurʾān 36:58, ff. 2r and 66v);
- Abū Muḥammad (أبو محمد): his ownership note (f. 1r)
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from Mary Rich (née Mackintosh), widow of Claudius James Rich (1786-1821), Political Resident in Baghdad (1808-21), 25 March 1825
- Finding Aids:
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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 395, pp. 188-89.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)