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Delhi Arabic 1665, ff 7v-39v
- Record Id:
- 040-003892943
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003693956
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100121701232.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100158211420.0x000001
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Arabic 1665, ff 7v-39v
- Title:
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[Kitāb al-asṭurlāb كتاب الأسطرلاب]
Kūshyār ibn Labbān كوشيار بن لبان
- Scope & Content:
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A treatise in four chapters (fuṣūl) on the use and construction of the astrolabe, by Kūshyār ibn Labbān al-Jīlī (كوشيار بن لبان بن باشهري بن الجيلي, fl. 961).
The text contains three diagrams (ff. 34r, 23v and 24v) and three tables:
- Solar declination to north and south (جدول الدرجات في الشمال والجنوب, f. 17r);
- Table of altitudes [measured in] digits and feet [of shadow] (جدول إرتفاع الأصابع والأقدام, f. 23r);
- Geographical coordinates with longitude measured from the Canary Islands and latitude from the Equator (جدول طول البلدان من جزائر الخالدات والعرض من خط الإستواء, ff. 38v-39v).
Begins (f. 7v, lines 1-3):
الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلوته على نبيه محمد وآله أجمعين
قال الكيا أبو الحسن كوشيار بن لبان الجيلي رحمه الله
الأصطرلاب كلمة يونانية ومعناه ميزان الشمس....
Ends (f. 38r, lines 1-5):
....ومن
خط وتر الأرض إلى هذه الزاوية ونختم الكتاب لهذا
الفصل والفصل لهذا الباب والحمد لله حق حمده وحسبنا
الله ونعم المعنى وصلى الله عن سيدنا محمد وآله وصحابه
أجمعين
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003693956
040-003892943 - Is part of:
- Delhi Arabic 1665 : Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab رسالة في العمل بالربع المجيبSibṭ al-Māridīnī,…
Delhi Arabic 1665, ff 7v-39v : [Kitāb al-asṭurlāb كتاب الأسطرلاب]Kūshyār ibn Labbān كوشيار بن لبان - Hierarchy:
- 032-003693956[0002]/040-003892943
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Delhi Arabic 1665
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Ff. 7v-39v
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100158211420.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- ca 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Storey, C.A., A.J. Arberry, and R. Levy, Preliminary unpublished descriptions of about 1,000 Arabic manuscripts on philosophy, tradition, science, poetry, literature and history, 1930-40 (BL Mss Eur D563), f. 1054
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Studies:
- Bagheri, Muhammad, 'Ibn Labbān, Kūshyār: Kiyā Abū al‐Ḥasan Kūshyār ibn Labbān Bāshahrī al‐Jīlī (Gīlānī)' in Thomas Hockey et al. (eds.), The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Springer Reference (New York: Springer, 2007), pp. 560-61
- Mimura, Taro, 'Too Many Arabic Treatises on the Operation of the Astrolabe in the Medieval Islamic World: Athīr Al-Dīn Al-Abharī’s Treatise on Knowing the Astrolabe and His Editorial Method' in Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures (Leiden: Brill, 2019), pp. 367–405
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)