Book on the configuration of the orb.

Title:

Book on the configuration of the orb.

Creator:

Dunash ibn Tamim, active 10th century

Date:

13--?

Description:

One of two known manuscripts of the Arabic original of the Book on the configuration of the orb, otherwise known through its use by Maimonides and through Latin translations, which are often attributed to the Abbasid court astrologer Māshāʼallāh. 14th-century copy of a 10th-century cosmological treatise with discussion of the theory of the four elements, meterology, geology, and astronomy, with the material on natural philosophy presented from an Aristotelian perspective. Manuscript is incomplete (25 chapters and parts of 4 additional chapters out of 39 in the complete work) and misbound; the correct order of pages is: p. 21–23, 1–2, 27–30, 23–26, 35–48, 11–12, 9–10, 13–14, 17–19, 7–8, 3–6, 15–16, 19–20, 31–34, and 49–50 (Taro Mimura).

Language:

Arabic

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Codices (bound manuscripts)
Diagrams
Treatises
Manuscripts, Arabic--14th century
Manuscripts, Medieval
Four elements (Philosophy)--Early works to 1800
Islamic philosophy--Early works to 1800
Islamic cosmology--Early works to 1800
Physics--Early works to 1800

Geographic region:

Seville?, Spain

Provenance:

Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, October 2002.Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Extent:

Written in 21 long lines.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania

Rights:

These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 439: Book on the configuration of the orb. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.
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Identifier:

LJS 439

Is part of:

OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World

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