Urjūza fī maʻrifat tadākhul al-shuhūr wa-ass al-shahr

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:

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Identifier:

MS Qq.54

Format:

Codex

Is part of:

Oriental Manuscrupts: Islamic Manuscripts Collection

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