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Add MS 9599, ff 51v-52v
- Record Id:
- 040-004368917
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003464769
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100166198836.0x000001
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
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- Add MS 9599, ff 51v-52v
- Title:
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Fragment of an astrological commentary
- Scope & Content:
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Fragment of a commentary on an astrological work or works by Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Marrākushī (أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد المراكشي, d. 1321), known as Ibn al-Bannā’ (ابن البناء).
The fragment begins with a didactic poem on astrology (ff. 51v, line 2-52r, line 2) before moving to the subject of planetary transits (ترحيل الدراري, ff. 52r, line 3-52v, line 17).
Given the context, the text mentioned at the end of the present fragment as 'Ibn Bannāʼ's Canon' (قانون ابن البناء, f. 52v, lines 16-17) is probably his Canon on the Transit of the Sun and Moon to the Stations and Knowledge of the Times of Night and Day (قانون لترحيل الشمس والقمر للمنازل ومعرفة أوقات الليل والنهار, see Rosenfeld and Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.), p. 242, no. 696, item A2).
Following the fragment, there is a slip of paper tipped into the volume bearing on one side (f. 52a-v) a 'glorious seal' (الخاتم الجليل) containing the names of the first four Caliphs and instructions for the seal's magical use. On the other side (f. 52a-r) is an unfinished diagram containing the names of the four major Islamic schools of law and the Caliph ʻUthmān.
Begins (f. 51v, lines 2-3):
وشرف الشمس بيت الحمل سقوطها الميزان يا ذا العقل
وزهرة لها بحوت شرف سقوطها العذراء حقًا يعرف
Ends (f. 52v, lines 13-17):
... وقد أدرك
بها أبو العباس ابن البناء درجة في زمانه وذالك بترحيل الدراري
في البروج ورصدها في الدرج والدقائق والثواني وثوالث وبذالك
يبلغ الإنسان ما أراد وهذا الترحيل السابق يقال إنه من قانون
ابن البناء رحمه الله تعلى (!)
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003464769
040-004368917 - Is part of:
- Add MS 9599 : Collection of Arabic texts on astronomy, astrology and related subjects
Add MS 9599, ff 51v-52v : Fragment of an astrological commentary - Hierarchy:
- 032-003464769[0010]/040-004368917
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Ff. 51v-52v
- 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. 445
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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. 242, no. 696, item A2
- Samsó, Julio, 'Ibn al-Bannāʾ: Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān al‐Azdī al-Marrākushī', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007), pp. 551-52
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Ibn al-Bannā’, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, mathemetician, astronomer, 1256-1321
- Subjects:
- Astrology--Early works to 1800
Astronomy--Early works to 1800