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Add MS 16659, ff 16v-24v
- Record Id:
- 041-004053090
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002094420
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100134501785.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100148048612.0x000005
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
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- Add MS 16659, ff 16v-24v
- Title:
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Sharḥ risālat Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān شرح رسالة حي بن يقظان
Ibn Zaylah ابن زيلة
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Commentary by Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṭāhir ibn Zaylah (أبو منصور الحسين بن طاهر بن زيلة, d. 1048) on the Epistle of Alive Son of Awake (رسالة حي بن يقظان), a philosophical allegory by his teacher Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). For the text commented upon, see previous item (ff. 13v-15v).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002094420
040-002094445
041-004053090 - Is part of:
- Add MS 16637-16880 : A collection of Oriental Manuscripts, from No. 16,637 to No. 16,880 inclusive, presented by the sons of Major William Yule, of…
Add MS 16659 : Compendium of philosophical and scientific texts by and about Avicenna (ابن سينا)
Add MS 16659, ff 16v-24v : Sharḥ risālat Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān شرح رسالة حي بن يقظانIbn Zaylah ابن زيلة - Hierarchy:
- 032-002094420[0020]/040-002094445[0005]/041-004053090
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 16637-16880
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Ff. 16v-24v
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100148048612.0x000005
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1768
- End Date:
- 1769
- Date Range:
- 1182
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- 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 978, pp. 447-51
- Rieu, Charles, Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols. (London: The British Museum, 1879-83), vol. 2, pp. 438-39
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Edition and French translation of text commented upon, including French translation of much of Ibn Zaylah's commentary:
- Rasāʾil al-shaykh al-raʾīs Abī ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā fī asrār al-ḥikmah al-mashriqīyah. Traités mystiques d'Abou Alî al-Hosain b. Abdallah b. Sînâ ou d'Avicenne, edited by August Ferdinand Mehren, 4 fascicles (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1889-99), fasc. 1
Studies of text commented upon
- Kukkonen, Taneli ‘Ḥayy b. Yaqẓān’, in Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, edited by Kate Fleet et al. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_30417 (accessed 16 October 2019)
- Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.) (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), no. 317, p. 127, item PH7
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)