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Or 5591, ff 3r-18r
- Record Id:
- 040-003955111
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003477110
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100131604659.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100144149585.0x000001
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 5591, ff 3r-18r
- Title:
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al-Kitāb fīhi manāzil al-qamar wa-mā fīhā min al-ikhtīyārāt wa-al-aʻmāl wa-dhālika min qawl Hirmis al-ḥakīm wa-ghayrih الكتاب فيه منازل القمر وما فيها من الاختيارات والأعمال وذلك من قول هرمس الحكيم وغيره
Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
- Scope & Content:
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Treatise on astral elections, or choosing propitious times to begin various actions, judging by the stations of the Moon.
The treatise belongs to the genre of Islamicate occult scientific literature known as the pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica, which takes its name from the fact that it is made up of texts purporting to be accounts of the teachings of Hermes on various subjects transmitted by Aristotle sometimes explicitly for the benefit of his pupil Alexander the Great.
This text is number 1 (ا) in the present collection.
Begins (f. 3v, lines 1-5):
قال أرسطاطاليس إن هرمس قال منازل
القمر ثمانية وعشرين منزلة أولهم
الشرطين وهو اثنا عشر درجة نا دقيقة
وعشرين ثانية من الحمل
قال هرمس ...
Ends (f. 18r, lines 10-13):
... فان ذلك
كله محمود العاقبة ناقي البركة حسن الخاتمة ومن ولد فيه إن كان
ذكر أو أنثى كان سعيدًا ميمونًا مباركًا حسن السيرة
تم حساب المنازل بحمد الله تعالى والحمد الله وحده
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003477110
040-003955111 - Is part of:
- Or 5591 : Collection of Arabic astrological and divinatory texts, and a fragment of a Persian manuscript
Or 5591, ff 3r-18r : al-Kitāb fīhi manāzil al-qamar wa-mā fīhā min al-ikhtīyārāt wa-al-aʻmāl wa-dhālika min qawl Hirmis… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003477110[0001]/040-003955111
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Or 5591
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Ff. 3r-18r
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100144149585.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1462
- End Date:
- 1463
- Date Range:
- 0867
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Finding Aids:
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Ellis, A.G. and Edward Edwards, A Descriptive List of the Arabic Manuscripts Acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum since 1894 (London: British Museum, 1912), p. 38
- Publications:
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Studies:
- Sezgin, Fuat, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, vol. 4 (Leiden: Brill, 1971), p. 42, item 5
- Sezgin, Fuat, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, vol. 7 (Leiden: Brill, 1979), pp. 54-5, item 4
- Ullmann, Manfred, Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1972), p. 292
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)