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Add MS 9602, ff 25v-55v
- Record Id:
- 040-002745941
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002745939
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022579784.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023486831.0x000002
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- ISAD(G)
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- Add MS 9602, ff 25v-55v
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Kitāb al-‘amal bi-l-asṭurlāb كتاب العمل بالأسطرلاب
Ibn al-Samḥ, Aṣbagh ibn Muḥammad ابن السمح، أصبغ بن محمد
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A treatise on the use of the astrolabe by the Andalusian astronomer and mathematician Abū al-Qāsim Aṣbagh ibn Muḥammad al-Gharnāṭī Ibn al-Samḥ (أبو القاسم أسبغ بن محمد الغرناطي بن السمح, 979-1035). The text is divided into 130 sections (أبواب). A list of the sections and their titles is found on ff. 25v-28v. This copy is defective at the end, and finishes abruptly during section 129 (see ending, f. 55v, lines 17-19, transcribed below).
Begins (f. 25v, lines2- ):
كتاب العمل بالأسطرلاب مما وضعه بن السمح رحمه الله وعرد أبوابه مائة وثلثون بابًا.
الباب الأول .ا. في صفة الأسطرلاب وتسمية أجزائه وتخطيطه ...
Ends (f. 55v, lines 17-19):
... الباب قكط
في معرفة موضع الشمس بدائرة تعمل في ظهر الأسطرلاب وقد عمل في طهر الا
سطرلاب دليلتين (؟) يكون في الواحدة منها لتمد الشهر وأيامها أعني
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-002745939
040-002745941 - Is part of:
- Add MS 9602 : Two treatises on astrolabes
Add MS 9602, ff 25v-55v : Kitāb al-‘amal bi-l-asṭurlāb كتاب العمل بالأسطرلابIbn al-Samḥ, Aṣbagh ibn Muḥammad… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002745939[0002]/040-002745941
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
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Ff. 25v-55v
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022579782.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 14th century
- Era:
- CE
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Translation:
- Ibn al-Samḥ, Aṣbagh ibn Muḥammad, El "Kitāb al-ʻamal bi-l-asṭurlāb" (Llibre de l'ús de l'astrolabi) d'Ibn al-Samḥ, Mercè Viladrich i Grau, ed. and trans., (Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 1986)
Study:
- Rius, Mònica, 'Ibn al-Samḥ: Abū al-Qāsim Aṣbagh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Samḥ al-Gharnāṭī', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Thomas Hockey et al., eds., (New York: Springer, 2007) p. 568
- Sezgin, Fuat, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, vol. V (Leiden: Brill, 1974). p. 356 and vol. 6 (Leiden: Brill, 1978). p. 249
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)