PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Kolkata, National Library of India, Buhar Arabic 353

[Black-and-white microfilm scans of the textblock.]
Single work: Arabic. Date:

undated, c. 19th c. (Hidāyat Ḥusain).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

an oval seal of the Jalāliyya library in Bohar, West Bengal, dated 1306/1888-9 (1r, 18v). Two different stamps of the Imperial Library (1r, 10v, 19r), one dated 22 December 〈19〉04 (1r).

Cod.: paper, 19 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in the upper left corner of rectos; catchwords). A single black naskh hand; almost fully dotted ductus with rare vowels. Red ink not discernible on the scans available to us. Pseudo-Ptolemy's verba numbered in abjad notation. Dimensions: 8×5¼ in (≈20.5×13.5 cm), written area: 5×2¾ in (≈12.5×7 cm); 10 lines per page. Codex apparently in good condition; some stains affecting the readability on f. 1v.

Cont.: astrology. — Index: recent title page (1r); Ptolemaica (1v–19r).

Bibl.: M. Hidāyat Ḥusain, Catalogue raisonné of the Būhār Library, vol. II: Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Būhār Library, Calcutta: Imperial Library, 1923, p. 387 (no. 353).

1v–⁠19r

\1v\ كتاب الثمرة لبطلميوس الحكيم تمام الكتب الأربعة التي ألّفها في الأحكام لسورس تلميذه. قال بطلميوس قد قدّمنا لك يا سورس كتبًا فيما يؤثّره الكواكب في عالم التركيب كثيرة المنفعة في تقدمة المعرفة وهذا الكتاب ثمرة ما اشتم{لت عليه تل}ك الكتب وما خلّص عن التجربة منها — \19r\ وإن كان ذو الذواية (كذا) تسير وسيره أبدًا يكون من المغرب إلى المشرق فإنّ الخارجيّ يأتي من بعيدة الأقاليم وإن لم يكن سائرًا فإنّ الخارجيّ من حضرة ذلك الإقليم.

= Pseudo-Ptolemy, Kitāb al-Thamara (B.1.1)

, version with 102 verba. — Title: Kitāb al-Thamara li-Baṭlīmus al-ḥakīm al-ḥakīm tamām al-Kutub al-Arbaʿa allatī allafa-hā fī l-aḥkām li-Sūrus talmīdhi-hi (1v). — Additional title: Kitāb al-Thamara fī aḥkām al-nujūm (1r). — Index: author’s introduction, 1v; 102 verba, 1v–19r. — No colophon or marginalia. Verba 63–64 subsumed under a single verbum 65; verba 99–100 subsumed under a single verbum 100, so that the total number of verba is seemingly 100. Verbum 97 (here: 96) before verba 95–96 (here: 97–98), as in al-Ṭūsī’s commentary (C.3.4).