Risālat al-fawāʼid fī al-raʼy al-muḥaṣṣal min al-aqdamīn jawhar al-ajrām al-samāwīyah wa-bayān madhhabihum al-muḥaqqaq ʻinda al-shaykh رسالة الفوائد في الرأي المحصل من الأقدمين جوهر الأجرام السماوية وبيان مذهبهم المحقق عند الشيخ Avicenna ابن سينا

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Treatise on the nature, generation and terrestrial influence of the heavenly bodies 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).

Extent and format

Ff. 504v-508v

It is part of

Compendium of philosophical and scientific texts by and about Avicenna (ابن سينا)

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Ref: Add MS 16659

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript item

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Add MS 16659, ff 504v-508v

History of this record

Date(s)

1182 (AH, Hijri qamari)

Related material

Finding aids

• 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

Select Bibliography

Edition:

• Avicenna, Majmūʻat al-rasāʼil , edited by Muḥyī al-Dīn Ṣabrī al-Kurdī (Cairo: Maṭbaʻat Kurdistān al-ʻIlmīyah, 1328/[1910]), pp. 257-79

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. 447

Subjects

Astronomy--Early works to 1800Philosophy -- Early works to 1800Astrology--Early works to 1800

People & organisations

Avicenna

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Risālat al-fawāʼid fī al-raʼy al-muḥaṣṣal min al-aqdamīn jawhar al-ajrām al-samāwīyah wa-bayān madhhabihum al-muḥaqqaq ʻinda al-shaykh رسالة الفوائد في الرأي المحصل من الأقدمين جوهر الأجرام السماوية وبيان مذهبهم المحقق عند الشيخ Avicenna ابن سينا, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Add MS 16659, ff 504v-508v, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100148048612.0x00001b> [accessed 2 October 2024]

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