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Photos of a ms of al-Bīrūnī’s "Al-ǧamāhir fī maʻrifat al-gawāhir"

Object identifier ARC_819
Type Item

Titles

Title
Al-Beruni, Muh. Ibn Ahmad: K. al-ǧamāhir fī (maʻrifa) al-gawāhir. Ueber Edelsteine. Aus einer Bibliothek in Kaisarie Bl. 1-145. Berlin mss simulata or. 47
Type
formal title
Title
Photos of a ms of al-Bīrūnī’s "Al-ǧamāhir fī maʻrifat al-gawāhir"
Type
supplied title

Description

Photographic reproduction of a manuscript of al-Bīrūnī’s «Al-ǧamāhir fī maʻrifat al-gawāhir» preserved in Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, or. 47, ff. 1-145.

Notes

Al-Bīrūnī, «Kitāb al-Ğamāhir fī maʻrifat al-ğawāhir,» ed. By F. Krenkow, Haydarabad, 1936. Paul Kahle was the supervisor of two dissertations on this work by al-Bīrūnī: 1) Mohammed Jahia Haschmi, «Die Quellen des Steinbuches des Bērūnī», Gräfenhainichen 1935. 2) Ṭāqī al-Dīn al-Hilālī, «Die Einleitung zu al-Bīrūnīs Steinbuch mit Erläuterungen übersetzt von Taḳī ed-Dīn al Hilālī», Leipzig 1941.

Languages

Arabic

Archivistic typology and Extent

Extent
127
Archivistic typology
photo(s)

Dimensions in mm

Height
120
Width
175

Individual

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