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Add MS 9598, ff 139v-157v
- Record Id:
- 040-004067717
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003463237
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100139686128.0x000001
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- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100157836372.0x00000c
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- ISAD(G)
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- Add MS 9598, ff 139v-157v
- Title:
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Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-kūrah al-falakīyah كتاب العمل بالكرة الفلكية
Qusṭā ibn Lūqā قسطا بن لوقا
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A treatise on the use of the celestial globe by Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا; ca 820-912).
This work, in 65 short bābs (باب), was widely disseminated through at least two Arabic recensions. The present version of the text is dedicated to Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yaḥyá (أبو الحسن عبد الله بن يحيى, see f. 139v, line 3-4).
The work was very influential in Europe in the medieval period, having been translated into Latin (1256 or post-1271), Castilian (in 1259), Hebrew (before 1301), and Italian (in 1341).
Begins (f. 139v, lines 3-6):
ألفه قسط (!) بن لوقا اليوناني لأبي الحسن عبد الله
بن يحيى قال الفاضل عرفه فضلًا على الخصوص بكمال الفضيلة
قليل في كل مكان وزمان فأما في هذا الزمان فمعدوم البتة خلا
سير أطال إليه بقاءه
Ends (f. 157v, lines 4-9):
...وعد ما بين
العلامتين من الأجزاء فما خرج لدفين (؟) أجزاء ذلك الكوا
كب عن سمت الرأس في ذلك البلد إن شاء الله تعالى
تم كتاب العمل بالكرة الفلكية من كلام قسطا بن لوقا
اليوناني والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة
والسلام على سيدنا محمد
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Additional Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003463237
040-004067717 - Is part of:
- Add MS 9598 : A collection of treatises on astronomical instruments and their use
Add MS 9598, ff 139v-157v : Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-kūrah al-falakīyah كتاب العمل بالكرة الفلكية Qusṭā ibn Lūqā… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003463237[0013]/040-004067717
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- File
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Ff. 139v-157v
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100157836372.0x00000c
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1660
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- Late 17th century
- Era:
- CE
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Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 407, x, pp. 193-94
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Translation:
- Worrell, W, 'Qusta Ibn Luqa On The Use Of The Celestial Globe' Isis, 35 (1944), pp. 285-293
Studies:
- Dekker, Elly, 'The transmission of celestial cartography from the Arabic-Islamic world to Europe: Celestial maps in MS Schoenberg ljs 057', in Cartography Between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic World, 1100-1500 (Leiden, Brill: 2021), pp. 91-112
- Lorch, Richard and José Martínez Gázquez, 'Qusta ben Luca. De sphera uolubili', Suhayl 5 (2005), pp. 9–62
- Samsó, Julio, 'Qusṭā ibn Lūqā and Alfonso X on the celestial globe', Suhayl, 5 (2005), pp. 63–79
- Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.), (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), p. 59 (no. 118), A1.
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- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)