Urjūza fī maʻrifat tadākhul al-shuhūr wa-ass al-shahr
- Holding institution:
- Cambridge University Library
- Data provider:
- Cambridge University Library
- Title:
- Urjūza fī maʻrifat tadākhul al-shuhūr wa-ass al-shahr
- Alternative title:
- Compendium of competence in knowing faculties and characteristics
- Creator:
- Anonymous
Ibn al-Raqqām, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, d. 1315 or 16 - Date:
- undated
- Description:
- Khulāṣat al-ikhtiṣāṣ fī maʻrifat al-qūwā wa-al-khawāṣṣ Contains Ibn al-Raqqām’s Kitāb khulāṣat al-ikhtiṣāṣ fī ma‘rifat al-qūwā wa’l-khawāṣṣ [Compendium of competence in knowing faculties and characteristics], preceded by an anonymous poem on agriculture. As stated in the incipit, Ibn al-Raqqām’s treatise is an abridgement of Ibn Waḥshīya Ibn Waḥshīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 9th cent. ’s Al-Filāḥa al-Nabaṭīya. The work consists of an agricultural tract in fifteen chapters, and an account of 309 plants, with their actions and properties, which are listed and numbered in the table of contentsLayout: 23 linesScript: Clear Naskh, black inkAdditions: Catchwords in the interior bottom-margin of versos marginalia Marginal commentaries in black ink marginalia Numbers referring to the index of plants written in red ink in the margins of ff. 30v-118v
- Language:
- Arabic
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Extent:
- Leaf: (height: 215 mm, width: 163 mm)
Written: (height: 175 mm, width: 115 mm) - Publisher:
- Cambridge University Library
- Rights:
- Images made available for download are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC 3.0)
This metadata is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. - Identifier:
- MS Qq.54
- Format:
- Codex
- Is part of:
- Oriental Manuscrupts: Islamic Manuscripts Collection