كتاب احكام الاعوام

Title:

كتاب احكام الاعوام

Alternative title:

Kitāb Aḥkām al-aʻwām taʼlīf ʻAlīshāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Qāsim al-Khwārizmī al-maʻrūf bi-ʻAlāʼ al-Munajjim al-Bukhārī
Aḥkām-i aʻvām

Creator:

Bukhārī, ʻAlī Shāh ibn Muḥammad, active 13th century

Date:

1743

Description:

Abstract: Treatise on astrology, composed probably in, or not long after 690/1291 (Storey and beginning of text, fol. 1b), comprising two parts (maqālah): Dar kayfīyat-i aʻmāl-i tasyīrāt (4 bāb) and Dar aḥkām-i ṭāliʻ-i taḥvīl (8 bāb), with tables. See description of contents in the preamble of the text (fol. 2a-3b). For a more detailed description of contents and a longer incipit, see David King, Fihris.Binding note: Quarter bound with flap in marbled paper and brown leather. Paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from tail of text block. The same title appears in the preamble of the text as "Aḥkām al-aʻwām" (fol. 2a, l. 18).Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within a single red line. European paper with watermark; frame-ruled. Note mentioning the number of pages in the volume on the margin of the colophon (fol. 133b).Collation: Paper, fol. iii, 133, iii; iii (fly-leaves, with inscription on the first recto) 1-13¹⁰ 14² (+1 at beginning of quire) iii (fly-leaves); the last word of the verso is repeated on the next recto.Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Raqm 17".Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Wednesday 27 Ramaḍān 1156 Nov. 14, 1743 by Ibn al-Ḥājj Ḥusayn Ṣabīḥ al-shahīr bi-al-Qusṭanṭinīyah.Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله العليم الحكيم والصلوة على نبينا محمد المصطفى الحليم العظيم وعلى اله واصحابه وسلم تسليما كثيرا عظيما مولف اين كلام ومصنف اين احكام العبد الفقير عليشاء بن محمد بن قاسم الخوارزمى المعروف بعلاء المنجم البخارى خرسه الله عن النوائيب چنين مى نمايد كه از شهر همدان در اواسط شهر مبارك رمضان سنه 688 باميد زيارت كعبه اسلام

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Sources

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Astronomy, Arab—Iran—History—13th century—Sources

Provenance:

Impression of a stamp with inscription reading: "al-Sayyid Aḥmad Muḥsin" on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Extent:

iii, 133, iii leaves: paper, ill. ; 210 x 150 (166 x 108) mm. bound to 210 x 155 mm.

Publisher:

1743

Rights:

https://rbsc.princeton.edu/services/imaging-publication-services

Identifier:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 232Y
Electronic Resource
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Is part of:

Robert Garrett
Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
Collections Donated to Princeton University Library

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