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Add MS 23390, ff 50v-87v
- Record Id:
- 040-002625443
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002614540
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022551640.0x000001
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- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023587816.0x000002
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- ISAD(G)
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- Add MS 23390, ff 50v-87v
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‘Uyūn al-ḥaqā’iq wa-īḍāḥ al-ṭarā’iq عيون الحقائق وإيضاح الطرائق
‘Irāqī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad عراقي، محمد ابن أحمد
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An exhaustive treatise on the magical arts based upon writings attributed to Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Galen as well as more recent authorities. The author's name is given in full as Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, known as al-‘Irāqī in Khusrawshāh (أبو القاسم أحمد ابن محمد المعروف بالعراقي بخسروشاه; f. 52r, lines 20-21). The treatise was written in the latter half of the 13th century since its preface mentions the reigning Mamluk Sultan, al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Rukn al-Dīn (i.e. Baybars I al-Bunduqdārī, r. 658/1260-676/1277; f. 50v, line 6), his son Barakah (f. 51r, line 18), and his vizier Bahā’ al-Dīn (f. 51r, line 5; see Holmyard's introduction to Abu al-Qāsim al-ʿIrāqī's, Kitāb al-ʿilm al-muktasab, 1923, p. 3). It begins with a dedicatory preface (ff. 50v-51r, line 20), and an introduction that includes a list of the treatise's thirty chapters (أبواب; ff. 51r, line 20-52v, line 3).
Begins (f. 50v, lines 2-3):
الحمد لله الذي أطلع لنا من مشارق الأرض شموسًا لا يتم خط سياح الملك
والشريعة المحمدية الأبهم وهديهم من الضلالة لحفظ رعيته من المؤمنين
Ends (f. 87v, lines 13-17):
اعلم يا أخي أن هذه الحروف يتعلق بالكواكب السبعة
السيارة ومعرفة خواصها وما يناسب كل حرف
منها إلى أي معدن فافهم ومعك الله لطاعته
وجنبك عن معصيته والله حسبي
ونعم الوكيل
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-002614540
040-002625443 - Is part of:
- Add MS 23390 : Fī raf‘ al-ashyā’ al-thaqīlah في رفع الأشياء الثقيلة Hero of Alexandria إيرن الإسكندراني…
Add MS 23390, ff 50v-87v : ‘Uyūn al-ḥaqā’iq wa-īḍāḥ al-ṭarā’iq عيون الحقائق وإيضاح الطرائق… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002614540[0002]/040-002625443
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ff. 50v-87v
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- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022551545.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
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Studies:
- Holmyard, Eric J., 'Abu l-Qāsim al-‘Irāqī', Isis 8.3 (1926), pp. 403-26
- ‘Irāqī, Muhammad ibn Ahmad, Kitāb al-ʿilm al-muktasab fī zirāʿat al-dhahab: Book of knowledge concerning the cultivation of gold, Eric John Holmyard, ed. and trans., (Paris: P. Geuthner, 1923)
- Ullmann, Manfred, Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1972), pp. 391-92
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
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