Name: Book on the configuration of the orb
Author: Dunash ibn Tamim, active 10th century دنش بن تميم

Dunash ibn Tamim, active 10th century دنش بن تميم

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Identifierljs439

Title at the sourceBook on the configuration of the orb

Author at the sourceDunash ibn Tamim, active 10th century دنش بن تميم

Date1300

LanguageArabic

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Stated licencehttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Four elements (Philosophy)--Early works to 1800 Codices (bound manuscripts)Islamic philosophy--Early works to 1800 DiagramsIslamic cosmology--Early works to 1800 TreatisesPhysics--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Arabic--14th centuryManuscripts, Medieval

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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, LJS 439. Seville?, Spain, 1300. 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). Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Franklin