Las tablas de calendario en el manuscrito árabe medievalLa tabla de códigos ('alāmāt) de la Risāla kāfiyat al-sayb fī-l-'amal bi-l-ğayb de 'Izz al-Dīn b. Mas'ūd (795/1392)

  1. Maravillas Aguiar Aguilar
Aldizkaria:
Revista Chilena de Estudios Medievales

ISSN: 0719-2215 0719-689X

Argitalpen urtea: 2022

Zenbakia: 22

Orrialdeak: 8-15

Mota: Artikulua

DOI: 10.4067/S0719-689X2022000200008 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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The table format is used in the medieval Arabic manuscript to display data in texts of geography, medicine, astronomy, astrology. Calendar tables constitute a specific category to which the table of madhal (‘entry’) or 'alamat (‘codes’) belongs. This type of table is used to determine which day of the week starts any month of any Arabic year. The present article analyzes the context of the table of madhal or 'alamat preserved in the Risala kafiyat al-sayb fi-l-'amal bi-l-gayb (Compendium on the Use of the Sine Quadrant) by the qadi al-qudat al-maliki 'Izz al-Din b. Mas'ud (Cairo, 795/1392). We conclude that this kind of expression of contents was maintained throughout the centuries by textual tradition, since this type of table is not strictly necessary to convert dates from one calendar to another