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Add MS 16659, ff 258v-310r
- Record Id:
- 041-004053115
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002094420
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100134507363.0x000001
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- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100148048612.0x00000d
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- Add MS 16659, ff 258v-310r
- Title:
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Ḥikmat-i ʿAlāʾī حكمة علائي
Avicenna ابن سينا
- Scope & Content:
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Persian summary of his own philosophical teachings by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), written for the Kākūyid amir ʿAlāʾ al-Dawlah Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Rustam Dushmanziyār (علاء الدولة أبو جعفر محمد بن رستم دشمنزيار, reg. ca 1008-1041).
The text is divided into three sections:
- Logic (علم منطق, ff. 258v-271r);
- Metaphysics (علم برين, ff. 271v-295v);
- Physics (علم زيرين و علم طبيعي, ff. 295v-310r).
The text is often known by the title The Book of Wisdom for ʿAlāʾ (دانشنامه علائى).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002094420
040-002094445
041-004053115 - 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 258v-310r : Ḥikmat-i ʿAlāʾī حكمة علائيAvicenna ابن سينا - Hierarchy:
- 032-002094420[0020]/040-002094445[0013]/041-004053115
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 16637-16880
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
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Ff. 258v-310r
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100148048612.0x00000d
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- Languages:
- Farsi
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1768
- End Date:
- 1769
- Date Range:
- 1182
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Finding Aids:
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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
- Publications:
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Translations:
- The 'Metaphysica' of Avicenna (ibn Sīnā). A Critical Translation-Commentary and Analysis of the Fundamental Arguments in Avicenna's 'Metaphysica' in the 'Dānish Nāma-i ʿAlāʾī' ('The Book of Scientific Knowledge'), Parviz Morewedge (ed.) (New York: Columbia University Press, 1973)
- Avicenna, Le Livre de science, translated by Mohammad Achena and Henri Massé, 2 vols., 2nd edition (Paris: Les Belles Lettres/UNESCO, 1986)
Study:
- 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. 124, item E3
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)