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Arundel Or 10, ff 105v-108v
- Record Id:
- 040-002430250
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002409588
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000006217.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023901480.0x000006
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel Or 10, ff 105v-108v
- Title:
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Untitled work on the virtues and uses of the letters
Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥarālī أبو الحسن الحرالي
- Scope & Content:
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A short, untitled treatise on the properties and uses of the letters and associated magical practices. The treatise is attributed to Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥarālī, who may be identical with the author of works on astronomical instruments Abū al-Ḥasan (or al-Ḥasan ibn) ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Marrākūshī (d. ca 660 AH/AD 1262).
The text has been written vertically on the folios, and the folios are in reverse order. The foliation has been reversed to take into account the direction of the text.
Begins (f. 105v, lines 2-3):
قال الشيخ أبو الحسن الحرالي أنت سألتني عن الحروف وطبائعها ووجوه منافعها فاعلم أن ذلك يؤخذ
يؤخذ (!) من مراتب الحروف التي تبتني عليها معرفة طباعها وتنشأ من ذلك وجوه منافعها ...
Ends (f. 108v, lines 8-10):
... حجرًا من
مراعة بغل وضعه تحت المائدة من جهة من لا تريد أن يأكل فيكون ذلك. قلب من عرس وكبده
تربطهما في جلد إبل وعلقه على الكاتب فإنه يغلط في حسابه ويخطئ
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002409588
040-002430250 - Is part of:
- Arundel Or 10 : Medical compendium
Arundel Or 10, ff 105v-108v : Untitled work on the virtues and uses of the lettersAbū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥarālī أبو الحسن الحرالي - Hierarchy:
- 032-002409588[0006]/040-002430250
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel Or 10
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- ff. 105v-108v (foliation reversed)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000005583.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1312
- End Date:
- 1313
- Date Range:
- 711-712
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 174 x 124 mm leaf [130 x 94 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling:
- Misṭarah; 11 lines per page; vertical spacing 8 lines per 10 cm (ff. 4v-27v);
- Misṭarah; 15 lines per page; vertical spacing lines per 10 cm (ff. 28v-104r and 109r-174r);
- No ruling visible; average 18 lines per page; 16 lines per 10 cm (ff. 105v-108v)
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and over lining in red
Binding: British Museum binding in brown leather
Condition: minor waterstains, some foxing and light grime from thumbing, some folios torn and repaired (e.g. ff. 10, 11 and 68)
Marginalia: Occasional marginal annotations and corrections
- Custodial History:
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See note on f. 28r of one Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Khalīl (?) ibn al-Ḥaṣūn (?) who inspected and copied the texts on ff. 28v-104r and 109r-174r on 17 Jumādá II 829/26 April 1426.
Front paper i verso contains an anonymous bookplate with motto ‘NULLIUS IN VERBA’.
Folio 4r contains stamp inscribed ‘Soc. Reg. Lond. ex dono Henr. Howard Norfolciensis’.
- Administrative Context:
- Aleppo
- Finding Aids:
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- Cureton, William, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum 1846-71), pp. 456-57 (Item 984)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)