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Or 14293
- Record Id:
- 032-003693973
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003693973
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100106890134.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100141530579.0x000002
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
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- Or 14293
- Title:
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Yatīmat al-ʿaṣr fī al-madd wa-al-jazr يتيمة العصر في المد والجزر
Ibn Mīmī, ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ابن مِيمي، عبد القادر بن أحمد بن علي
- Scope & Content:
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A wide-ranging treatise on natural phenomena relating to the seas, by ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Mīmī al-Baṣrī (عبد القادر بن أحمد بن علي بن مِيمي البصري, d. 1674). The text, also known as Wary al-zand bi-al-jazr wa-al-madd (وري الزند بالجزر والمد), was composed in 1084/1673 and the present copy was completed, according to a colophon (see below, f. 122v, lines 15-16) in a different hand, in Baṣrah on 14 Jumādá II 1085 (6 September 1674). Folios 1, 2 and 41 are replacements.
The treatise describes the known seas and islands and their associated creatures and marvelous phenomena; seafaring; and the tides and theories concerning their cause. It also discusses various cosmological, astronomical, zodiacal, calendrical, and meteorological subjects and describes regional rivers, citing throughout numerous authorities including relators of hadīth, pre-Islamic philosophers and numerous scholars of the Islamic era.
Marginal notes on ff. 35r, 99v and 112r identify the author's frequently-mentioned shaykh (شيخنا) as the pre-eminent theologian and sufi Ibrāhīm ibn Haṣan al-Kūrānī al-Shahrazūrī al-Shahrānī (1616-1690), said to be Ibn Mīmī's personal teacher (وهو شيخ المؤلف).
Diagrams:
- Schematic diagram of the confluence (مجمع البحرين) of the Green (i.e. Atlantic), Black, Persian, and Rūmī (i.e. Mediterranean) seas (f. 18v).
- Cosmological diagram (on a replacement folio), showing the relationship between the stations of the moon and the seasons of the year, the planets and sublunary creations (f. 41v)
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-5):
الحمد لله الذي خلق الماء وكون منه الأرض والسماء أنشأها
واحدة واحدة رتقا رتقا وفتقها سبعا سبعا فتقا فتقا رفع السماء
بقدرته وزينها بالكواكب والجمال ودحى الأرض بحكمته وأرساها
بالجبال...
Ends (f. 122v, lines 11-15):
...ففي دقائق
التقدير المحكمة في رقائق التصوير عليها يدور أمر الأيات القاهرة
والمعجزات الظاهرة ومنها تنشاء الكرامات الباهرة خلق الله
من هذه السماء ملائكته ليس لهم عبادة إلا إرشاد الخلق
إلى أنوار الحق...
Colophon (f. 122v, lines 15-17):
...تم هذا لكتاب (!) بعون عناية الملك الوهاب يوم الأحد يوم أربعة عشر
في جمادى الثاني سنة ١٠٨٥
وقد وقع فراغه في البصرة المجيد
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003693973
- Is part of:
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-003693973
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. i+125
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100106890134.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1674
- End Date:
- 1674
- Date Range:
- 14 Jumādá II 1085
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 228 x 120mm leaf [164 x 83mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Eastern Arabic foliation in black ink. Foliation of f. 77a has been added by cataloguer
Ruling: Misṭarah; 15 lines per page; vertical spacing 9 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with keywords and text frames in red
Decoration: Two diagrams (ff. 18v and 41v)
Binding: Blind-tooled, brown leather frame enclosing paper covers, stamped with a floral central medallion and pendants, with green and purple endbands
Condition: Water damage to fore edge margins; paper repairs to folio edges throughout; only a fragment of the tailband remains
Marginalia: Very few, but see Scope and Content
Seals: ff. 122v, 123v and 124r (all erased); British Library stamps: ff. 1r and 123v
- Custodial History:
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- Note with date Rajab 1262/June-July 1846 [erased] (f. 124r);
- Purchase note and seal (name and seal erased) with date 1290/1873-74 (f. 123v);
- Ownership note and seal (name and seal erased), with visible date 1323/1905-06 f. 124r).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased 1985
- Publications:
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- Brockelmann, Carl, History of the Arabic Written Tradition: Volume 2, trans. by Joep Lameer. Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one, The Near and Middle East; volume 117/2 (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016), p. 435
- Ahlwardt, Wilhelm, Die Handschriften-verzeichnisse der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin, Vol. 5 (Berlin: A. Asher & Co, 1893), No. 6053, pp. 377-78
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)