Article ID: CBB001551287

The Arabic Original of (ps.) Māshā'allāh's Liber de Orbe: Its Date and Authorship (2015)

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Liber de orbe, attributed to Māshā'allāh (d. c.815), a court astrologer of the Abbasid dynasty, was one of the earliest Latin sources of Aristotelian physics. Until recently, its Arabic original could not be identified among Arabic works. Through extensive examination of Arabic manuscripts on exact sciences, I found two manuscripts containing the Arabic text of this Latin work, although neither of them is ascribed to Māshā'allāh: Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Ms. or. oct. 273, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania University Library, MS LJS 439. In this paper, I describe these two manuscripts in great detail, so that I confirm their originality of the Liber de orbe, and then by analysing the contents of the Arabic text, I deny the attribution to M sh 'all h, and identify the title and author as Book on the Configuration of the Orb by Dūnash ibn Tamīm, a disciple of Isaac Israeli (c.855--c.955).

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Authors & Contributors
Burnett, Charles
Hashemi, S. Ahmad
Gee, Teri
Yamomoto, Keiji
Veit, Raphaela
Tibi, Selma
Concepts
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Translations
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Medicine
Astronomy
Mathematics
Time Periods
9th century
Medieval
10th century
Ancient
13th century
11th century
Places
Baghdad (Iraq)
Middle and Near East
Greece
Europe
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