Cod.: paper, I+198+I^a ff. (foliated with corresponding Hindu-Arabic and Arabic-European numerals on rectos; quires numerated at the center top of versos with Arabic and zimām numerals and with Arabic numbers written out in full; catchwords in some of the works by a later hand). A single clear naskh hand in brown. Substantially dotted ductus; occasional vowels and shaddas; occasional hamzas; kāfs are indicated with a second smaller kāf above. Centered work, book and chapter titles in brown or red naskh or thuluth; occasional titles in a later black hand. Abjad notation overlined in brown. Very few tables and numerous diagrams in a limited number of works; diagrams and tables in red with abjad notation in brown; few blank spaces left for diagrams. Dimensions: 326×235 mm, written area: 215×155 mm (Qatar Digital Library); 27 lines per page. Mold and moisture stains; occasional rewriting in black of fainted text; some burns; restorations. Covers in reddish leather over paper pasteboards with fillets. Half-bound. Type III binding.

Cont.: philosophy, history, mathematics, astrology, astronomy, and astrometeorology. — Index: table of contents in a different hand (1r); Muḥammad b. Zakarīyāʾ al-Rāzī, Kitāb al-sīra al-falsafiyya (1v–5v); Bakr b. Qāsim b. Abī Thawr al-Mawṣulī for his master Abū ʿUthmān Saʿīd b. Yaʿqūb al-Dimashqī, Maqāla fī l-Nafs (6r–12r); Thābit b. Qurra, Masāʾil allātī saʾala ʿan-hā Abū Mūsā ʿIsā b. Asad (12v–16v); Abū l-Najā l-Fāriḍ, Kitāb al-Khamsīn masʾala fī kasr al-manṭiq (16v–26v); Sinān b. Thābit, Sīyāsat al-nufūs (26v–28r); Yaḥyā b. ʿAdī, Tahdhīb al-akhlāq (28r–31r; cf. Gerhard Endress, The Works of Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī. An Analytical Inventory, Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1977, p. 82); anonymous, Risāla Tataḍammana ādāb wa-ḥikma (31v–33r); Ḥasan b. Sahl b. al-Shamkh b. Ghālib, Qawl fī l-Akhbār allātī yukhbiru bi-hā kathīrūn (33v–40v); Abū l-Qāsim b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Isḥāq al-Zajjājī, Sharḥ Risālat Adab al-kātib li-Abī Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh b. Muslim b. Qutayba (41r–58v); Ibn Abī Ṭāhir, al-Mukhtaṣar fī l-qirānāt (59r–63v); anonymous, al-Juzʾ al-awwal min Kitāb al-Jafr fī l-tabṣira fī Sharḥ al-shuhūr al-ʿarabiyya wa-l-rūmiyya wa-burūji-hā wa-mā fī-hā wa-manāzil al-qamar wa-l-anwāʾ wa-ṭulūʿ al-manāzil wa-ghurūb al-naẓāʾir wa-dhikr al-tawārikh wa-l-riyāḥ wa-hubūbi-hā wa-l-ʿalāmāt al-ṣādiqa wa-l-barāhīn al-nayyira al-wāḍiḥa wa-l-qamar ʿinda l-ṭulūʿ wa-l-maghīb mim-mā qāla-hu Arisṭūṭālīs min ḥarakāt al-ḥayawān wa-ʿalāmāt al-sharāb wa-ghayri dhālika wa-ḥawādith al-jaww wa-ʿalāmāt al-nayyirāt wa-l-andāʾ wa-l-amṭār mim-mā istakhraja min Kitāb Dāniyāl wa-Sulaymān b. Dāwud ʿalay-himā l-salām wa-shahada bi-dhālika l-falāsifa wa-l-ʿamāliqa (64r–81r); Ptolemaica (81v–102v); Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. al-Zarqīlah al-Ṭulayṭulī, Kitāb al-ʿAmal bi-l-ṣafīḥa al-zījiyya al-mawḍūʿa li-taqwīm al-kawākib wa-taʿlīl al-taʿdīl ʿala mā tūjibu-hu al-hayʾa al-falakiyya (103r–107v); Thābit b. Qurra, Kitāb fī Ḥisāb ruʾyat al-ahilla (108r–113r); Ibn Sīnā, Risāla fī Mā taqarrara ʿinda-hu fī ḥujaj al-muthbitīn li-l-māḍī mubdāʾan zamāniyyan wa-taḥlīli-hā ilā l-qīyāsāt (113v–121v); Nicomachus of Gerasa (tr. Thābit b. Qurra), Kitāb al-Madkhal ilā ʿilm al-ʿadad (122r–164r); Apollonius of Perga, Fī l-Ashkāl al-ṣanawbariyya or Kitāb al-Makhrūṭāt (164v–172v); Abū Maʿshar, al-Qawl fī l-Namūdhārāt (173r–175v); Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq al-Kindī, Risāla fī Mulk al-ʿarab wa-kamiyyati-hi (175v–178r); anonymous, fuṣūl on philosophy (178r–178v); Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Riḍwān, Dalīl mūjaz ʿalā ḥadath al-ʿālam (178v); Abū l-Majd b. ʿAṭīya, Maqāla fī l-Ḍarb wa-l-qisma bi-l-hindī min ghayr maḥw wa-la naql (179r–188r); Ibn Sīnā, Maqāla fī l-Nafs (188v–198v). Blank: none.

Bibl.: William Cureton and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens, pars II, London: Curatorum Musei Britannici, 1852, pp. 205–209 (no. CCCCXXVI); Bernard R. Goldstein, The Arabic Version of Ptolemy’s Planetary Hypotheses, Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1967, p. 5; Régis Morelon, ‘La version arabe du Livre des hypothèses de Ptolémée’, Mélanges de l’Institut Dominicain d’Etudes Orientales 21 (1993), pp. 7–85, here p. 9. Qatar Digital Library: https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023601232.0x000001.