كتاب التفهيم لاوائل صناعة التنجيم تصنيف الاستاذ الجليل ابي الريحان محمد بن احمد البيروني اطال الله في المعالي بقاه

Kitāb al-Tafhīm li-awāʼil ṣināʻat al-tanjīm taṣnīf al-ustādh al-jalīl Abī al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī aṭāla Allāh fī al-maʻālī baqāhu.

Author
Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 973?-1048 [Browse]
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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[1872]
Description
iii, 121, iii leaves: paper ; 217 x 151 (155 x 90) mm. bound to 225 x 160 mm.

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    Summary note
    Neat copy of a treatise on astrology, composed for Rayḥānah bint al-Ḥasan, Ghazna 420/1029 (Ullmann).
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from title page (fol. 1a).
    • Physical description: 27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of magenta (occasional light green and yellow for diagrams, see fol. 44b, fol. 68b-69a). Contains diagrams and tables. Thick European paper with watermark. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Inner margin worm-eaten ; fragile.
    • Collation: Paper, fol. iii + ; iii (fly-leaves; wove paper) 1-9¹⁰ 10¹⁰ (-1, fol. torn out between fol. 93 and 94) 11¹⁰ 12¹⁰ (+2 at end of quire) iii (fly-leaves; wove paper) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the quires are numbered using Arabic numerals.
    • Inscription in Western numerals in pencil on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1361". Inscription in Roman script on fol. (i)a: "AM 16644" (crossed out ; repeated on fol. 1a). Inscription in Arabic numerals on fol. (i)a: "42".
    • Origin: According to colophon, copied by Aḥmad al-Shāhah(?) and completed on 24 Sh[awwāl] 1288 [Jan. 6, 1872] (fol. 120b, followed by verses of poetry).
    • Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما الى يوم الدين ان الاحاطة بهيئة العالم وكيفية شكل السماء والارض وما بينهما على وجه الاخبار الماخوذ بالتقبيد
    • Explicit: فقد جهلها المنسوبون اليها فضلا عن المنتفين عنها والله المستعان وعليه التكلان وان يدخلنا بفضله دار الغفران
    Binding note
    Quarterbound. Disbound.
    Provenance
    Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Mach, R. Yahuda, 5061
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 475 (1/3) ; SI
    • Ullmann, M. Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften, p. 335
    Other format(s)
    Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
    OCLC
    221289381
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