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Add MS 16659, ff 310v-342v
- Record Id:
- 041-004053118
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002094420
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100134507835.0x000001
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- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100148048612.0x00000e
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- Add MS 16659, ff 310v-342v
- Title:
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Risālah dar ʿilm-i rīyāz̤īyāt (رساله در علم رياضيات)
Jūzjānī, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid جوزجاني، عبد الواحد
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Treatise on the mathematical sciences (geometry, astronomy, arithmetic and music) excerpted from the works of Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), edited and translated into Persian by his student Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Jūzjānī (أبو عبيد عبد الواحد بن محمد الجوزجاني). The treatise is meant as a supplement to Ibn Sīnā's Wisdom for ʿAlāʾ (حكمة علائي), more commonly known by its Persian title The Book of Wisdom for ʿAlāʾ (دانشنامه علائى), which presented in Persian his teachings on logic, metaphysics, and physics.
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Contents:
- Treatise on the Elements of Geometry (رساله در اصلهاى هندسه, ff. 310v-320v);
- Treatise on the Science of Observation and Organisation of the Heavens (رساله در علم رصد وهيات سمان, ff. 320v-332v);
- Treatise on the Science of Arithmetic (رساله در ارثماطيقى, ff. 332v-338r);
- Treatise on the Science of Music (رساله در علم موسيقى, ff. 338r-342v).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002094420
040-002094445
041-004053118 - 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 310v-342v : Risālah dar ʿilm-i rīyāz̤īyāt (رساله در علم رياضيات)Jūzjānī, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002094420[0020]/040-002094445[0014]/041-004053118
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 16637-16880
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Ff. 310v-342v
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100148048612.0x00000e
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- Languages:
- Farsi
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1768
- End Date:
- 1769
- Date Range:
- 1182
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
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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
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Studies:
- Dhanani, Alnoor, 'Jūzjānī: Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Jūzjānī', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, edited by Thomas Hockey et al., (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 604-05
- Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.) (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), no. 318, p. 128
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)