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032-003719840
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Add MS 22672
Title:

[Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb wa-dhikr ālātihi wa-ajzāʾih كتاب العمل بالأسطرلاب وذكر آلآته و أجزائه]

Ibn al-Ṣaffār, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ابن الصفار، أحمد بن عبد الله

Scope & Content:

A treatise in 42 short sections (باب) on the construction and use of the astrolabe, by Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Ṣaffār al-Ghāfiqī al-Andalusī (أبو القاسم أحمد بن عبد الله بن عمر بن الصفار الغافقي الأندلسي, d. 426/1035). The author’s name is given in the present copy as Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad [...], known as Ibn al-Ṣaffār al-Andalūsī (أبو القاسم محمد بن أحمد [...] الشهير بابن الصفار الأندلوسي, f. 3v, lines 2-3). Based on the calculation given on f. 27r, lines 1-2, the text was composed in 413/1023. The text was translated into Latin, Hebrew and Castilian in the medieval period.

The final chapter presents methods for calculating the beginnings of the Christian (عجمية) years and months, summarised in a circular diagram at the end of the volume (f. 27v).

F. 1 is a 19th-century Western paper flap adhered to the inside front cover, containing an explanation of the manuscript’s content in English (f. 1v).

Begins (f. 3v, lines 1-6):

...وصلى الله على سيدنا وآله وصحبه

قال الشيخ أبو القاسم محمد بن أحمد بن عبد الله

(!) بن عمر الشهير بابن الصفار الأندلوسي

تغمده الله برحمته وأسكنه فسيح جنته

باب ذكر رسالة الأسطرلاب والأسماء الواقعة عليها

أول ذلك الحلقة وتسمى العلاقة...

Ends (f. 27r, line 17-f. 27v, line 3):

...وبما ذكرنا يعرف كم يمد لتأريخ مولد

المسيح عليه السلام قبل تأريخ الهجرة إن شاء الله تعالى والدا

ئرة المذكورة هي المرسومة في آخر الورقة وأنظر ذلك وهي

لمعرفة مداخل السنين العجمية وشهورها وقد تقدم كيف العمل بها

Colophon (f. 27v, lines 4-6):

انتهى وكفى والحمد لله ووفى وسلام على

عباده الذين اصطفى وصلى الله

على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله

Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Additional Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
Codex; ff. 27+ii
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Arabic
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
18th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Western laid paper with watermark and countermark of Dutch papermaking firm C & I [J] Honig

Dimensions: 186 x 110 mm leaf [120 x 66 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; previous Western Arabic pagination in pencil (cancelled)

Ruling: Misṭarah; 17 lines per page; vertical spacing 14 lines per 10 cm

Script: Maghribī

Ink: Black ink, with text frames in blue chapter headings in red and blue ink, and overlinings in red

Decoration: Text frames in blue; chapter headings alternate red text with blue vocalisation and blue text with red vocalisation

Binding: Dark green buckram binding

Condition: Some staining

Marginalia: Very few

Seals: None

British Museum stamp: ff. 3r, 12r, 20r, 27v

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, 22 January 1859

Finding Aids:

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 976, p. 444

Publications:
  • Millás Vallicrosa, José María, Las traducciones orientales en los manuscritos de la Biblioteca de la Catedral de Toledo (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1942), pp. 261–84
  • Millás Vallicrosa, Josep Maria, ‘Los primeros tratados de astrolabio en la España Árabe’, in Revista del Instituto Egipcio de Estudios Islámicos, 3 (1955), pp. 35-49 (for study in Spanish); 47–76 (for edition of text in Arabic)
  • Rius, Mònica, 'Ibn al-Ṣaffār: Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar al-Ghāfiqī ibn al-Ṣaffār al-Andalusī', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007), pp. 566-56
  • Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.), (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), no. 312, A1, pp. 121–22 (or 313, p. 122)
  • Samsó, Julio, On Both Sides of the Strait of Gibraltar: Studies in the History of Medieval Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghrib, Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 1, Vol. 144 (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2020), pp. 376-77
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Ibn al-Ṣaffār, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh, d 1035,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/80591625
Subjects:
Astronomical instruments
Astronomy--Early works to 1800