Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, ar. 2775
undated; 10th/16th c. (de Slane), 9th/15th c. (Vajda).
Or.:unknown; unknown scribes.
Prov.:a statement by Yūsuf b. Muḥammad b. Mūsā al-Azharī dated 976/1568-9 (101r). A tughra dated 1020/1611-2 (1r). A statement by Muḥammad b. Nūr al-Dīn … al-Ḥanafī, with an unclear date, perhaps 1039/1629-30 (1r). The number ‘1172’, perhaps a date (
Cod.: paper, 173 ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in the upper left corner of rectos; a similar individual foliation for ff. 1–75, 76–101 and 102–173; several quire numbers written out in the upper left corner of rectos, additional quire numbering in Arabic-European numerals running from back to front in the upper right corner of versios (i.e., at quire ends); occasional catchwords, sometimes incorrect as added after a folio went loss). Three clear and thick naskh hands (1r–6v, 7r–101r, 102v–173v). Third hand (including the Ptolemaic work): dynamic, with bowls of descenders; mostly dotted ductus with numerous shaddas, vowels and tanwīns. 57 images (79r–130v) and some magical letters (171r) to be carved on talismans. Codex in good condition; some smudges and moisture stains, several folios lost (e.g., between ff. 90 and 91, 95 and 96, around 124–126 and after 173). Dimensions: 17½×13 cm; lines per page: 16 (1v–5v), 9 (6r–v), 13 (7r–101v), and 11 (102v–173v). Cover over marbled paper pasteboards. Type III binding.
Cont.: mineralogy and astral magic. —
Bibl.: William MacGuckin de Slane, Catalogue des manuscrits arabes, Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1883–1895, p. 500; George Vajda, Notices de manuscrits arabes rédigées par George Vajda (Arabe 2760-2800) (unpublished typescript, MS arabe 7300/1), Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1940–1969, pp. 24–26; Lucia Raggetti, ‘The ‘Science of Properties’ and its Transmission’, in Justin Cale Johnson (ed.), In the Wake of the Compendia. Infrastructural Contexts and the Licensing of Empiricism in Ancient and Medieval Mesopotamia, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015, pp. 159–176, here pp. 171–174; Lucia Raggetti, ‘Rolling Stones Do Gather: MS Istanbul Aya Sofya 3610 and Its Collection of Mineralogical Texts’, in Alessandro Bausi, Michael Friedrich and Marilena Maniaci (eds), The Emergence of Multiple-Text Manuscripts, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020, pp. 215–245, here pp. 227–230; Liana Saif, ‘A Preliminary Study of the Pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica: Texts, Context, and Doctrines’, al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 29 (2021), pp. 20–80, here pp. 30–31 and 68; Coulon:2021, pp. 168–169. BnF Archives et manuscrits: https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc306882.
169r–173v
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\169r\ 〈…〉 قال بطلميوس الحكيم إنّ الدعاء المستجاب له أوقات وخواصّ روحانيّات الكواكب واتّصالاتها وقراناتها وذلك أن النفوس الجزئيّة متّصلة بروحانيّاتها لأنّ الجزء من الكلّ والكلّ من الجزء. وقال بطلميوس إذا رصدوا اقتران السعيدين أعني الزهرة والمشتري — \173v\ وأمرك أنّك على كلّ شئ قدير بحقّ هذه الأحرف والأسماء التي أعرف صورتها || = Pseudo-Ptolemy, al-Duʿāʾ al-mustajāb (B.5.3)
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