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Or 7716, ff 118v-127r
- Record Id:
- 040-002919749
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002919717
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025524923.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025776470.0x000002
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 7716, ff 118v-127r
- Title:
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al-I‘lām bi-shadd al-minkām الإعلام بشدّ المنكام
Muḥammad al-Ṣūfī محمد الصوفي
- Scope & Content:
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Treatise on the use of sand-clocks (منكام, pl. مناكيم) by the Egyptian mathematician and astronomer Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ ibn ‘Īsá ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣūfī al-Miṣrī (شمس الدين محمد بن أبي الفتح بن عيسى بن الصوفي المصري, fl. late 15th-early 16th century; see. f. 125v, lines 2-3). The text is divided into 5 short chapters (أبواب), an introduction (مقدمة) and a long conclusion (خاتمة).
The treatise contains six diagrams (ff. 122v and 123r) and one table (124v).
This text is followed (ff. 125v, line 4-127r) by a description of a sand-clock called the tarjihār (ترجهار) extracted from Kitāb minhaj al-ṭullāb fī ‘amal al-aṣṭurlāb (كتاب منهج الطلاب في عمل الأصطرلاب) by the Yemeni Rasulid sultan al-Malik al-Ashraf ‘Umar ibn Yūsuf ibn ‘Umar ibn ‘Alī ibn Rasūl (الملك الأشرف عمر بن يوسف بن عمر بن علي بن رسول; d. 1296).
Begins (f. 118v, lines 2-3):
الحمد لله رافع الدرجات لمن شد عزيمة قصده في تحرير العمل وواضع البركات
لمن سد ساعات عمره عن تكرير الخلل الذي فتح دقائق الفهوم الفكرية ...
Ends (f. 125v, lines 1-3):
وكان ذلك أضبط للوقت واحر زوادق لما قصدناه فوجب إذا على مريد التحقيق
مراعاة ما ذكرنا والله الموفق ...
Colophon (f. 125v, line 3):
... والحمد لله وحده والصلوة على من لا نبي بعده
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002919717
040-002919749 - Is part of:
- Or 7716 : Three treatises on astrology, astronomy and time-keeping
Or 7716, ff 118v-127r : al-I‘lām bi-shadd al-minkām الإعلام بشدّ المنكامMuḥammad al-Ṣūfī محمد الصوفي - Hierarchy:
- 032-002919717[0002]/040-002919749
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Or 7716
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Ff. 118v-127r
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100025776470.0x000002
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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:
- Fazlıoğlu, İhsan, 'Ibn Abī al-Fatḥ al-Ṣūfī: Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ al-Ṣūfī', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Thomas Hockey et al., eds., (New York: Springer, 2007), p. 547
- Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th–19th c.), (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), pp. 300-303
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)