5 Ramaḍān 1288/15 November 1871 (227v).

unknown, probably Turkey (the scribe also copied works in Turkish in MSS Cairo, al-Azhar, Ḥalīm 35124 and Istanbul, Süleymaniye, Ragıp Paşa 662); copied by al-faqīr al-sayyid Aḥmad al-Hāmī, one of the students of al-sayyid Muḥammad al-Khulūṣī (227v).

no statements of ownership or seals; according to the catalogue, this manuscript was bought in 1929 in Istanbul by Oskar Rescher (d. 1972).

Cod.:

European brown paper, I+227+I^a ff. (foliated with small Hindu-Arabic numerals in black in top recto folios and with Arabic-European numerals in pencil in bottom verso folios, catchwords). A single clear black naskh hand; book headings in red; chapter headings in red introduced by the term faṣl; words introducing new sections or paragraphs in red; numerous proper names in red; numerals mostly in abjad notation in red; occasional Hindu-Arabic numerals mostly in red; ductus consistently dotted; substantial lām alif muḥaqqaq and yāʾ rājiʿa; no shaddas but substantial hamzas; no vowels. Substantial diagrams; minor tables; diagram lines in red; abjad notation in diagrams in blue; diagram labels in black; table lines in red; table headings in red and black; abjad notation in tables in red and blue. Dimensions: 234x161 mm; written area: 168x97 mm; 27 lines per page. No moisture stains. Original brown leather covers with rhomboidal silver decoration. Type II binding.

Cont.:

astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v-227v). Blanks: none.

Lit.:

Helene Loebenstein, Katalog der arabischen Handschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek: Neuerwerbungen 1868-1968 Teil 1: Codices mixti ab Nr 744, Vienna: Hollinek, 1970, 177, no. 2363.