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Delhi Arabic 1916 vol 2

Record Id:

040-003320390

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003320385

MDARK:

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SLARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100065934803.0x000001

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Delhi Arabic 1916 vol 2

Title:

al-Juz’ al-thānī min kitāb al-masā’il الجزء الثاني من كتاب المسائل

Qaṣrānī, Ya‘qūb ibn ‘Alī قصراني، يعقوب بن علي

Scope & Content:

Volume two of the Book of Interrogations (كتاب المسائل), an extensive treatise on astrological interrogations by Abū Yūsuf Ya‘qūb ibn ‘Alī al-Qarshī al-Qaṣrānī (أبو يوسف يعقوب بن علي القرشي القصراني, fl. late 9th century).

An illuminated frontispiece (f. 1r) contains the following title in its upper panel: الجزء الثاني من كتاب المسائل.

According to the scribe's colophon (f. 182r, lines 1-4, transcribed below), replaced by a different but roughly contemporary hand from text found on a folio now lost, the copy was completed on Thursday during the last 10 days of Rajab 640/15 January 1243 by Ismā‘īl ibn Kūnj al-Mārkurdī al-Badrī (إسمعيل بن كونج الماركردي البدري) also known as al-Mārkurdīnī (الماركرديني; see Cairo, Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣrīyah, MS Ādāb 2041, dated 641/1243-44).

A note in the lower right corner of f. 179v states that it marks the point at which according to the author of the note many copies of this text end.

Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-8):

الفصل التاسع عشر في معرفة صناعة اللص إذا أردت

معرفة صناعة اللص فانظر لذلك من كينونة عطارد في بيوت الكواكب

ونظر الكواكب إليه فإنه إن كان عطارد في بيته من غير نظر النحوس

إليه وهو في وتد أو ما يلي وتدًا فهو كاتب وإن كان في بيت المريخ

أو بمنظره فإنه خياط وإن كان في بيت الزهرة وناظره المريخ فأمزج

طبيعتهما وأحكم عليه في ذلك نحو ما بينت في كتاب المواليد من صفة

معرفة صناعة المولود في جميع أبوابه إن شاء الله تعالى

Ends (f. 181v, lines 6-11):

... وإن كان في وتد

فالبرج المنقلب ساعات وذو جسدين أيام والثابت شهور وفي التوالي

المنقلب أيام وذو جسدين شهور والثابت سنين وفي الزوائل

المنقلب شهور وذو جسدين سنين والثبت أيام وإن كان فاسدًا

من النحوس فإلى أن يخرج ويقع في بيته أو شرفه أو حده أو ينظر

إلى السعود فيكون كذلك الذي يسأل عنه فرحًا وصلاحًا بإذن الله

Author's colophon (f. 181v, lines 12-15):

تم الكتاب بكمال ما قصدنا له والحمد لله

ولي الحمد وأهل (؟) الفضل وصلى الله على محمد نبيه

المصطفى وعلى آله الطيبين الطاهرين وسلم كثيرًا

وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل

(Followed by collation note, without date)

Scribe's colophon (original lost and replaced; f. 182r, lines 1-6):

واقف الفراغ منه يوم الخميس لأخير عشرة ليلةً بقيت من شهر رجب الفرد

الواقع في سنة أربعين وستمائة للهجرة العربية على صاحبها أفضل

الصلاة والسلام على يد المفتقر إلى الله تعالى إسمعيل بن كونج المار

كردي البدري عفا الله عنه حامدًا لله تعالى ومصليًا على نبيه

[Space of two lines left blank]

هذه التكملة المكتبية أعلاه بقية ما وجد بخط كاتب نسخة مسائل القصراني

على صفة المشروحة أعلاه وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003320385
040-003320390

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Delhi Arabic 1916 : Kitāb al-masā’il كتاب المسائلQaṣrānī, Ya‘qūb ibn ‘Alī قصراني، يعقوب بن علي

Delhi Arabic 1916 vol 2 : al-Juz’ al-thānī min kitāb al-masā’il الجزء الثاني من كتاب المسائلQaṣrānī, Ya‘qūb…

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032-003320385[0002]/040-003320390

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Codex; ff. iii+182+iii

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https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100065934803.0x000001

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Languages:

Arabic

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1243

End Date:

1243

Date Range:

Rajab 640

Calendar:

Hijri qamari

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper

Dimensions: 245 x 150 mm leaf [190 x 110 mm written]

Foliation: Foliation in a mix of Coptic and Eastern Arabic numerals in brown ink, mutilated but visible on most folios; Eastern Arabic foliation in black ink (ff. 12 and 13 in the India Office foliation are both marked 12 in the Eastern Arabic foliation; the Eastern Arabic foliation skips from 62 to 66); India Office Library foliation stamped in black ink (bound in the following order 1-11, 32-36, 13, 12, 14-31, 37-182); quire signatures (quinions, many with middles marked) are found on ff. 17r, 27r, 29r, 39r, 49r, 59r, 81r, 99r, 109r, 119r, 129r, 139r, 148r, 158r, 168r and 176r.

Ruling: Misṭarah; 17 lines per page; vertical spacing 9 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh; the scribe is Ismā‘īl ibn Kūnj al-Mārkurdī al-Badrī (إسمعيل بن كونج الماركردي البدري; see f. 182r, lines 3-4)

Ink: Brown

Decoration: Illuminated frontispiece (f. 1r)

Binding: Blue half-leather India Office binding

Condition: Some insect damage in places repaired by lamination with silk gauze; all folios guarded; stains; minor water damage towards lower outer corner

Marginalia: Very few, some by hand of scribe including collation notes and others by another hand in black ink

Seals: f. 182v

Custodial History:

Long, semi-legible inscription (f. 1r, upper);

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Sha‘bān (أحمد بن محمد بن شعبان): his inscription, without date (f. 1r, lower);

The Government of India, its seal with central legend 'Delhi MSS' (f. 182v).

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876

Administrative Context:

Egypt (Cairo?)

Publications:

Studies:

Burnett, Charles, ‘Al-Kindi on Judicial Astrology: "The Forty Chapters"’, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 3.1 (1993), pp. 77-117 (see pp. 85-86)

Burnett, Charles, Keiji Yamamoto and Michio Yano, ‘Al-Kindī on Finding Buried Treasure’, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 7.1 (1997), pp. 57-90 (see pp. 62 and 66-71)

Pingree, David and Wilferd Madelung, ‘Political horoscopes relating to late 9th century ‘Alids’, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 36.4 (1977), pp. 247-75

Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.), (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), p. 46, no. 95

Sezgin, Fuat, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, vol. 7 (Leiden: Brill, 1977), pp. 138-39

Ullmann, Manfred, Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1972), pp. 314-15

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