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Or 11210
- Record Id:
- 032-003693971
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003693971
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100106889047.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100128928281.0x000002
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 11210
- Title:
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A treatise on arithmetic and geometry, with its commentary
Biqāʿī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar بقاعي، إبراهيم بن عمر
- Scope & Content:
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Rough holograph copies of a short treatise on arithmetic and mensuration (geodesy) in verse form (urjūzah) entitled al-Bāḥah fī ʿilmay al-ḥisāb wa-al-misāḥah (الباحة في علمي الحساب والمساحة, ff. 2r-27r), followed by a commentary upon it entitled Ibāḥat al-bāḥah (إباحة الباحة, ff. 28r-109v, both by Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar al-Biqāʿī (إبراهيم بن عمر البقاعي, d. 1480).
According to the authorial colophon on the final folio of the commentary - a replacement - the present copy was completed on the night of 24 Jumādá 836/16 January 1433 (see colophon, f. 109r, lines 14-19), when its author was around 25 years old.
Content:
- (1) al-Biqāʿī (البقاعي), al-Bāḥah fī ʿilmay al-ḥisāb wa-al-misāḥah (الباحة في علمي الحساب والمساحة, ff. 2r-27r);
- (2) al-Biqāʿī (البقاعي), Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar, Ibāḥat al-bāḥah (إباحة الباحة, ff. 28r-109v).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003693971
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Or 11210, ff 2r-27v : al-Bāḥah fī ʿilmay al-ḥisāb wa-al-misāḥah الباحة في علمي الحساب والمساحةBiqāʿī,…
Or 11210, ff 28r-109v : Ibāḥat al-bāḥah إباحة الباحةBiqāʿī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar بقاعي، إبراهيم بن عمر
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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ff. i+109+i
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100106889047.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1433
- End Date:
- 1433
- Date Range:
- 24 Jumada 836
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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Material: Shiny, Eastern laid paper with chain lines grouped in threes
Dimensions: 185 x 140mm leaf (excluding guards) [127 x 93mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Eastern Arabic quire markings
Ruling: Misṭarah; 15 lines per page; vertical spacing 15 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; the scribe is the author, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar al-Biqāʿī (إبراهيم بن عمرالبقاعي, d. 1480).
Ink: Black ink, with occasional rubricated editorial markings
Decoration: None
Binding: British Museum buckram binding; remains of previous envelope flap visible (f. 1r)
Condition: Completely disbound and rebound with each folio guarded; shadow of previous pentagon flap visible on f. 1
Marginalia: Extensive corrections and notes in the author-scribe's hand
Seals: ff. 3r and 28r
- Custodial History:
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- Muṣṭafá Ṣidqī (مصطفى صدقي, d. 1183/1769-70), Ottoman bibliophile and poet: his ownership seal with date [1]179/1765-66 (f. 3r)
- Aḥmad ibn Nāṣir al-Din ibn ʻAlī al-Biqāʼī (أحمد ابن ناصر الدين بن علي البقاعي): his ownership statement (ff. 3r and 28r)
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Oskar Rescher (1884-1972), 10 May 1930
- Publications:
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Biographical information:
- Brockelmann, Carl, History of the Arabic Written Tradition: Volume 1, trans. by Joep Lameer. Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one, The Near and Middle East; volume 117/2 (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016), p. 154
- Saleh, Walid, "al-Biqāʿī", in Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, edited by Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, Everett Rowson. Consulted online on 10 December 2020
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)