Hayʾaẗ al-aflāk

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Hayʾat al-aflāk

Title (arabic)	هيئة الأفلاك
Title (translit)	Hayʾat al-aflāk
Author	Qusṭā ibn Lūqā al-Baʿalbakī
Language	Arabic
Subject	Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam
Notes	This text describes both the celestial and terrestrial realms. A codex table of contents (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Seld. 11) attributes the work to Qusṭā ibn Lūqā. But this t of c and the attribution are in a different hand than the witness itself and the text itself is anonymous. A passage from the work using the distance between Palmyra and Raqqa to find the size of the Earth is found in Damascus, Ẓāhiriyya 4489, f. 12a-b, where it is attributed to Muḥammad ibn Mūsā under the title “Ḥarakat al-aflāk”, which see.
ismi_id	269616

Manuscript Witnesses

1 witnesses:

Hayʾat al-aflāk_Oxford_Bodleian Library, Oxford Univ._Selden_A11

Literature References

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