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Add MS 16659, ff 421v-422v
- Record Id:
- 041-004053137
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002094420
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100134519725.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100148048612.0x000029
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 16659, ff 421v-422v
- Title:
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Suʼāl ʻan al-shaykh al-raʼīs qaddasa sirrah سؤال عن الشيخ الرئيس قدس سره
and
Jawābuhu ʻan al-shaykh al-raʼīs qaddasa sirrah جوابه عن الشيخ الرئيس قدس سره
Avicenna ابن سينا
- Scope & Content:
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Short essay on space by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The text is a response to a question posed to him in his youth by an unnamed person.
In the present manuscript, this text does not have a title as such, but rather begins with the question labelled 'question to the Chief Shaykh [i.e., Avicenna], may his secret be sanctified' (سؤال عن الشيخ الرئيس قدس سره), before moving to the main portion of the text labelled 'its answer from the Chief Shaykh, may his secret be sanctified' (جوابه عن الشيخ الرئيس قدس سره). In other manuscripts, this text appears under the following titles: the Epistle on Expanse (رسالة في الوسعة), Space (الفضاء), the Epistle on Place (رسالة في المكان) and the Book for a Theologian (كتاب إلى بعض المتكلمين).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002094420
040-002094445
041-004053137 - 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 421v-422v : Suʼāl ʻan al-shaykh al-raʼīs qaddasa sirrah سؤال عن الشيخ الرئيس قدس سرهandJawābuhu… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002094420[0020]/040-002094445[0027]/041-004053137
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 16637-16880
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Ff. 421v-422v
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100148048612.0x000029
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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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- 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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Study:
- Gutas, Dimitri, Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition. Introduction to Reading Avicenna’s Philosophical Works, 2nd ed., including an Inventory of Avicenna’s Authentic Works (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2014), p. 446
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)