Two technological treatises

Name: Two technological treatises
Author: Key of Jafr

Title	Two technological treatises
Author	Key of Jafr
Publication Date:	28 Shawwāl 691 (CE, Gregorian)
Type	Book
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Pages Count	1
Physical Dimensions	254 x 185 mm
Library:	Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID	Or 14270
Record ID	vdc_100000000094.0x000095
Library Location	British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date	28 Shawwāl 691 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes	Volume containing two technological treatises: Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-binkamāt (كتاب أرشميدس في عمل البنكامات) (ff. 2v-21r); Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (أحمد بن محمد الفرغاني), al-Kāmil fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb al-shimālī wa-al-junūbī wa-‘ilalihuma bi-l-handasah wa-al-ḥisab (الكامل في صنعة الأسطرلاب الشمالي والجنوبي وعللهما بالهندسة والحساب) (ff. 21v-73r). The title page (f. 2r) reads: Kitāb ‘Amal al-sā‘āt li-Arshimīdas wa-Kitāb ‘Amal al-asṭurlāb lil-Farghānī (كتاب عمل الساعات لأرشميدس وكتاب عمل الأسطرلاب للفرغاني). The manuscript contains forty-five illustrations and forty-five tables. The colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 71r) records the copyist's name as ‘Umar ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah, and the completion date as 28 Shawwāl 691/12 October 1292. A notes on the title page (f. 2r) and beneath the colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 71r ) identify the copyist as the Ibn Ṭalḥah who authored the Key of Jafr (مفتاح الجفر) , a work on shī‘ī apocalyptic and divination. The death date ascribed to Ibn Ṭalḥah the author of the Key of Jafr , however, is 652/1254-5, 39 years before the manuscript was copied. Notes concerning the astrolabe Ancient instrument for astronomical observations. are found on folio 1r, and a list of illustrations in Farghānī's al-Kāmil fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb (item 2 in this manuscript) is found on folio 1v. A quire Collection of papers folded in half and stitched together to form a gathering of folios. of eight leaves (quaternion) has been lost between folios 24 and 25 (marked 23 and 32 respectively in the Arabic-Indic foliation). Although the quire Collection of papers folded in half and stitched together to form a gathering of folios. signatures here are consecutive (the fifth quire Collection of papers folded in half and stitched together to form a gathering of folios. beginning on f. 25 and the sixth quire Collection of papers folded in half and stitched together to form a gathering of folios. on f. 33), the loss of a quire Collection of papers folded in half and stitched together to form a gathering of folios. has between these two quires is further indicated by the fact that the end of Chapter Two (النوع الثاني; begins f. 24v) and the beginning of Chapter Three (ends f. 28r) are both missing. The box containing this volume also holds the volume's previous binding, and fragments of texts on papers retrieved from the previous binding. Two paper leaves that appear to have been the right and left doublures respectively of the previous binding have been bound into the volume as frontpaper ii and endpaper i.
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Gruplandırıldığı Yer	Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-binkamāt كتاب أرشميدس في عمل البنكامات Archimedes أرشميدس 24 images Ref: Or 14270, ff 2v-14r San‘at al-zāmir صنعة الزامر Apollonius the carpenter and geometer أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي 15 images Ref: Or 14270, ff 14r-21r الكامل في صنعة الأسطرلاب الشمالي والجنوبي وعللهما بالهندسة والحساب al-Kāmil fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb al-shimālī wa-al-junūbī wa-‘ilalihuma bi-l-handasah wa-al-ḥisab فرغاني، أحمد بن محمد Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad 104 images Ref: Or 14270, ff 21v-73r

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Two technological treatises

Author Key of Jafr

Publication Date 28 Shawwāl 691 (CE, Gregorian)

Type Book

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Pages Count 1

Physical Dimensions 254 x 185 mm

Library Qatar Digital Library

Library Asset ID Or 14270

Record ID vdc_100000000094.0x000095

Library Location British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Date 28 Shawwāl 691 (CE, Gregorian)

Notes Volume containing two technological treatises: Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-binkamāt (كتاب أرشميدس في عمل البنكامات) (ff. 2v-21r); Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (أحمد بن محمد الفرغاني), al-Kāmil fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb al-shimālī wa-al-junūbī wa-‘ilalihuma bi-l-handasah wa-al-ḥisab (الكامل في صنعة الأسطرلاب الشمالي والجنوبي وعللهما بالهندسة والحساب) (ff. 21v-73r). The title page (f. 2r) reads: Kitāb ‘Amal al-sā‘āt li-Arshimīdas wa-Kitāb ‘Amal al-asṭurlāb lil-Farghānī (كتاب عمل الساعات لأرشميدس وكتاب عمل الأسطرلاب للفرغاني). The manuscript contains forty-five illustrations and forty-five tables. The colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 71r) records the copyist's name as ‘Umar ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah, and the completion date as 28 Shawwāl 691/12 October 1292. A notes on the title page (f. 2r) and beneath the colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 71r ) identify the copyist as the Ibn Ṭalḥah who authored the Key of Jafr (مفتاح الجفر) , a work on shī‘ī apocalyptic and divination. The death date ascribed to Ibn Ṭalḥah the author of the Key of Jafr , however, is 652/1254-5, 39 years before the manuscript was copied. Notes concerning the astrolabe Ancient instrument for astronomical observations. are found on folio 1r, and a list of illustrations in Farghānī's al-Kāmil fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb (item 2 in this manuscript) is found on folio 1v. A quire Collection of papers folded in half and stitched together to form a gathering of folios. of eight leaves (quaternion) has been lost between folios 24 and 25 (marked 23 and 32 respectively in the Arabic-Indic foliation). Although the quire Collection of papers folded in half and stitched together to form a gathering of folios. signatures here are consecutive (the fifth quire Collection of papers folded in half and stitched together to form a gathering of folios. beginning on f. 25 and the sixth quire Collection of papers folded in half and stitched together to form a gathering of folios. on f. 33), the loss of a quire Collection of papers folded in half and stitched together to form a gathering of folios. has between these two quires is further indicated by the fact that the end of Chapter Two (النوع الثاني; begins f. 24v) and the beginning of Chapter Three (ends f. 28r) are both missing. The box containing this volume also holds the volume's previous binding, and fragments of texts on papers retrieved from the previous binding. Two paper leaves that appear to have been the right and left doublures respectively of the previous binding have been bound into the volume as frontpaper ii and endpaper i.

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Gruplandırıldığı Yer Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-binkamāt كتاب أرشميدس في عمل البنكامات Archimedes أرشميدس 24 images Ref: Or 14270, ff 2v-14r San‘at al-zāmir صنعة الزامر Apollonius the carpenter and geometer أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي 15 images Ref: Or 14270, ff 14r-21r الكامل في صنعة الأسطرلاب الشمالي والجنوبي وعللهما بالهندسة والحساب al-Kāmil fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb al-shimālī wa-al-junūbī wa-‘ilalihuma bi-l-handasah wa-al-ḥisab فرغاني، أحمد بن محمد Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad 104 images Ref: Or 14270, ff 21v-73r