Author
Theophrastus
Publication Date
1182 (AH, Hijri)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Add MS 16659, ff 368v-369v
Record ID
vdc_100148048612.0x000011
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
1182 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
Extract on the causes of thunder and lightning from the work on meteorology by Theophrastus (Θεόφραστος, Theophrastus, d. ca 287 BC) commonly, as here, misattributed to Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (Abu Ali). الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037, see Gutas,
Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition
[2014], p. 523).
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
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
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition:
Avicenna, 'Fī dhikr asbāb al-raʻd', in
Majmūʻ rasāʼil al-shaykh al-raʼīs
(Ḥaydarābād al-Dakkan: Dāʼirat al-Maʻārif al-ʻUthmānīyah, 1353 [1934])
Studies:
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. 523
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. 126, item Ph4
