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Or 5479, ff 37v-85r
- Record Id:
- 040-002913190
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002913187
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025071724.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100030447153.0x000004
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 5479, ff 37v-85r
- Title:
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al-Kāmil fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb al-shimālī wa-al-junūbī wa-‘ilalihumā bi-l-handasah wa-al-ḥisab الكامل في صنعة الأسطرلاب الشمالي والجنوبي وعللهما بالهندسة والحساب
Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr فرغاني، أحمد بن محمد بن كثير
- Scope & Content:
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Earliest known Arabic treatise on the construction of the astrolabe, by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Farghānī (أحمد بن محمد الفرغاني; fl. ca 820-860). This manuscript was erroneously dated to the 12th/19th century by Lorch (Al-Farghānī On the Astrolabe [Munich: Franz Steiner, 2005], p. 17) perhaps on the basis of the first two leaves of the text (ff. 37 and 38), which are nineteenth-century replacements of lost leaves.
The text contains sixty-two diagrams and tables:
Geometric diagrams (ff. 39r, 40r, 41r, 42r, 42v, 44r, 45r, 45v, 47r, 47v, 49r, 50v, 52v, 53r and 55r);
Twenty-five tables for the construction of an astrolabe (ff. 56r-68r);
Rule (مسطرة) of astrolabe (f. 71v);
Rete (شبكة) of astrolabe (f. 71v, 77r);
Plate (صفيحة) of astrolabe (f. 73r, 74r and 74v);
Location of diagram missing from exemplar noted (f. 80v);
Mater (أم) of astrolabe (f. 76r and 76v, 79r and 81v, 83r and 84r).
Begins (f. 37v, lines 2-4):
قال أحمد بن محمد الفرغاني إن المتقدمّين من العلماء الحساب والنجوم
إنّما أدركوا علم حركات الفلك وما يعرض فيه بالمواظبة على النظر والقياس
وكان أكثر ما استدلوا به من آلات المقاييس الآلة التي تسمّى ذات الحلق
Ends (ff. 84v, line 20-85r, line 2):
... وذلك ما لا يحتاج إلى أكثر منه وإن أحدًا إذا أراد
أن يعمل الأسطرلاب لموضع من الأرض مما يجوز عرضه خمسين جزءًا إلى تسعين جزءًا
ففيما وصفنا لاسخراج ذلك من الجدول المفرد بهذا الباب
ما يستدل به على كل ذلك بإذن الله تعالى
Colophon (f. 85r, lines 3-6):
تم الكتاب بحمد الله وحسن التوفيق وصلاته على
جميع أنبيائه الكرام والحمد لله
وحده عل نعمائه
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002913187
040-002913190 - Is part of:
- Or 5479 : Four treatises on astrolabes and a bibliography of the works of Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد…
Or 5479, ff 37v-85r : al-Kāmil fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb al-shimālī wa-al-junūbī wa-‘ilalihumā bi-l-handasah wa-al-ḥisab… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002913187[0002]/040-002913190
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Or 5479
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Ff. 37v-85r
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100030447153.0x000004
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Publications:
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Edition/translation:
- Al-Farghānī On the Astrolabe, Richard Lorch ed. and trans. (Munich: Franz Steiner, 2005)
Study:
- DeYoung, Gregg, 'Farghānī: Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī' in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Thomas Hockey et al., eds., (New York: Springer, 2007) p. 357
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr, astronomer; also known as Alfraganus, fl 813-861,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123418280,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/64358682 - Subjects:
- Astrolabes--Early works to 1800
Astronomy--Early works to 1800
