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Add MS 9599, ff 7v-13r
- Record Id:
- 040-004368894
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003464769
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100166182861.0x000001
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- Add MS 9599, ff 7v-13r
- Title:
- Mukhtaṣar fī al-ʻamal bi-al-asṭurlāb wa-rubʻ al-muqanṭarāt wa-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab مختصر في عمل بالأسطرلاب وربع المقنطرات والربع المجيبIbn al-Shāṭir, ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ابن الشاطر، علي بن إبراهيم
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Introductory text in three sections (فصول) on the use of the astrolabe, the astrolabe quadrant (رُبْع المُقَنْطَرات), and the sine quadrant (الرُبْع المجَيَّب) by ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Shāṭir (علاء الدين أبو الحسن علي بن إبراهيم ابن الشاطر, d. 1360), timekeeper (مُوَقِّت) of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.
The text is followed by two short notes (فائدتان) on astronomical subjects (f. 13r), and a tested method of keeping a traveller safe by means of seven stones and letters, prayers and adjurations (f. 13v).
Begins (f. 7v, lines 2-4):
الحمد لله رب العالمين حمدًا يليق بجلاله وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه أجمعين
وبعد فإنه يقول العبد الفقير إلى الله تعلى (!) علي بن إبراهيم بن محمد بن الشاطر الموقت
بالجامع الأموي رأيت أن أختصر رسالة في العمل بالأسطرلاب وربع المقنطرات والربع المجيب
Ends (f. 12v, line 18-13r, line 2):
إن أردت حصة مغيب الشفق من المنقنطرات الغربية وانظر ما بين الموري وعلامة
طلوع الشمس من أجزاء الحجرة فما كان فهو حصة طلوع الشمس أو مغيب
الشفق والله أعلم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وصحبه وسلم تسليمًا
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003464769
040-004368894 - Is part of:
- Add MS 9599 : Collection of Arabic texts on astronomy, astrology and related subjects
Add MS 9599, ff 7v-13r : Mukhtaṣar fī al-ʻamal bi-al-asṭurlāb wa-rubʻ al-muqanṭarāt wa-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab مختصر في… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003464769[0002]/040-004368894
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Ff. 7v-13r
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1800
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Finding Aids:
- 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 977, p. 444
- Publications:
- Studies:
- Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.) (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), p. 255, item A11
- King, David A., 'Ibn al-Shāṭir: ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al., (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 569-70
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Ibn al-Shāṭir, ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm, 1304-1375
- Subjects:
- Astronomical instruments
Astronomy--Early works to 1800