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Add MS 9599, ff 80v-118v
- Record Id:
- 040-004368923
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003464769
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100166203005.0x000001
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- Add MS 9599, ff 80v-118v
- Title:
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Commentary on a poem on calendrical calculations
- Scope & Content:
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Anonymous commentary on an anonymous didactic poem on calendrical calculations. The commentary was composed in 911/1505-06 (see f. 86v, line 17). The author of the commentary frequently refers to the Student's Method on Planetary Equations (منهاج الطالب في تعديل الكواكب), by the mathematician and astronomer Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Marrākushī (أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد المراكشي, d. 1321), known as Ibn al-Bannā’ (ابن البناء, cf. f. 86v, line 3), and to the Crown of Zījes and Sufficient for the Needy (تاج الأزياج وغنية المحتاج) by Ibn Abī al-Shukr al-Andalusī (ابن أبي الشكر الأندلسي, d. ca 1290, cf. f. 86v, lines 12-13 and 16).
The text of the poem commented upon is rubricated and introduced by the letter ṣād (أصل = ص); the commentary is introduced by the letter shīn (شرح = ش). The author of the poem is referred to as 'the versifier' (المناظم, cf. f. 86v, line 7).
The commentary contains sixteen tables (ff. 86r, 87v-88r, 94r-94v, 100r, 105v-107r, 110v-112v, and 117v).
The copy begins abruptly and is defective at end. Since, however, f. 80r is blank and the text begins on f. 80v, no text can be missing from the beginning of this copy. It is not clear how or even whether the geometrical definitions on f. 114v and the two following astronomical diagrams (ff. 115r-116r) fit within the text of the commentary.
Begins (f. 80v, lines 1-3):
وبعث صلى الله عليه وسلم وهو أتى أربعين سنة وتوفي أبو
طالب وهو أتى تسع وأربعين سنة وثمانية أشهر وإحدى وعشرين
يومًا ...
Ends (f. 118v, lines 23-26, defective at end):
وتقسم هذه الدوائر أيضًا دائرة البروج التي في سطح هذا الفلك
بإثنى عشر قسمًا متساوية وتلك الأقسام الإثنى عشر من جميع الفلك
تسمى بروجًا والقسم التي فيها دائرة البروج تسمى أيضًا بروجًا وكل
واحد من أقسام جميع الفلك تسمي باسم الشكل من أشكال الكواكب التي
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003464769
040-004368923 - Is part of:
- Add MS 9599 : Collection of Arabic texts on astronomy, astrology and related subjects
Add MS 9599, ff 80v-118v : Commentary on a poem on calendrical calculations - Hierarchy:
- 032-003464769[0016]/040-004368923
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Ff. 80v-118v
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1800
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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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 977, p. 445
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Studies:
- Comes, Mercè, ‘Ibn Abī al‐Shukr: Muḥyī al‐Milla wa‐ʾl‐Dīn Yaḥyā Abū ʿAbdallāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al‐Shukr al‐Maghribī al‐Andalusī [al‐Qurṭubī]’, in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007), pp. 548-49
- Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.), (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), pp. 227, no. 635, item A1 and 388, no. 1252, item A1
- 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
Maghribī, Muḥyī al-Dīn, Ibn Abī al-Shukr, astronomer, mathematician, d 1283 - Subjects:
- Astronomy--Early works to 1800
Didactic poetry