PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Ayasofya 4853

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Collection of more than 25 works: Arabic and Persian. Date:

undated; ‘possibly beginning of the 7th/13th c.’ (Mahdawī, p. 338 n. 2).

Or.:

unknown; numerous unknown scribes.

Prov.:

an oval seal with the tughra of Sultan Bāyazīd II (r. 1481–1512) (2r, 132v). Statement of endowment in favour of Sultan Maḥmūd I (r. 1730–1754), received by Aḥmad Shaykh Zāda, inspector of endowments ‘in the two Holy Shrines’, with his seal (1v); seal of Sultan Maḥmūd I (2r).

Cod.: paper, I+134+Ia ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals at the centre bottom of rectos, with ‘78’ repeated; a similar foliation in the right margin of rectos, crossed out when not matching the other; no catchwords). At least ten different naskh hands in black and brown (1v–64v, 65v–76v, 77v–78bisr, 79r–94v, 95v–99v, 99v–101v, 101v–102v, 103v–110r, 111v–120r, 121v–134r). Ptolemaic hand (111v–120r): brown ink; mostly dotted ductus with tanwīns, occasional vowels and hamzas, no shaddas; red for title and verba numbering in Hindu-Arabic numerals, sometimes overlined. Neatly drawn geometrical diagrams only in the treatise on ff. 121v–134r. Codex damaged by insects; binding seemingly loose. Dimensions: 17×12 cm; 21 lines per page (15–16 on 95v–99v; 24–26 on 101v–102v). Persian safīna. Type III binding.

Cont.: philosophy, medicine, mysticism, astrology and astronomy. — Index: table of contents of the collection (1r); an older table of contents (2r); a collection of treatises by Ibn Sīna and Pseudo-Ibn Sīna: Risāla al-Arzāq (2v–6r; Mahdawī no. 23); Risāla Īḍāḥ barāhīn mustanbaṭa fī masāʾil ʿawīṣa (6v–8v; no. 38); Risāla fī l-Akhlāq (9r–13r; no. 13); Faṣl ayḍan min kalāmi-hī … fī l-akhlāq (13r); Ajwiba ʿan ʿasharat masāʾil (13v–18r; no. 6); al-Ajwiba ʿan masāʾil Abī l-Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī (18r–31r; no. 5); Risāla al-Firdaws (31r–40r; no. 192); Masʾalatān ayḍan min kalāmi-hī (40r–41r; no. 109); al-Jumal min al-adilla al-muḥaqqiqa li-baqāʾ al-nafs al-nāṭiqa (41r–45v; no. 52); Dustūr ṭibbī (45v–47v; no. 73); Risāla al-Nayrūziyya (47v–50v; no. 127); Risāla fī l-Ḥadath (50v–51r; no. 55); Risāla fī Khaṭaʾ man qāla inna l-kammiyya jawhar (51r–52r; no. 67); Risāla fī Khtilāf al-nās fī amr al-nafs wa-amr al-ʿaql, or Risāla ilā Kiyā (52r–53v; Mahdawī no. 12, Reisman no. I.B.c); Maqāla fī Khaṭaʾ man qāla innaal-kammiyya jawhariyya wa-man qāla inna shayʾan huwa jawhar wa-ʿarḍ maʿan (53v–59r; Mahdawī no. 68); Risāla fī Ithbāt al-nubūwa (59r–64v; no. 3) Risāla fī l-Qaḍāʾ wa-l-qadr (65v–76v; no. 100); some added notes in Persian (77v, 78v–78bisr); Risāla fī Jawhar al-ajsām al-samāwiyya (79r–87v; no. 53); Risāla fī l-Wusʿa (88r–89r; no. 129); several fāʾidas, some with material from the Mubāḥathāt (89r–94v; Mahdawī no. 200, Reisman nos I.A.c.1, I.A.c.2); Risāla al-Ṭayr (95r–99v; Mahdawī no. 88); Fawāʾid min Kitāb al-Taʿlīqāt (99v–101v); Maqāla fī l-Ishāra ilā ʿilm al-manṭiq (101v–102v; no. 28); Risāla fī Aqsām al-ʿulūm al-ʿaqliyya (103v–110r; no. 32); Ptolemaica (111v–120r); Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Ḥall-i mushkilāt-i muʿīniyya (121v–134r). Blank: 65r, 77r, 78r, 78bisv, 103r, 110v–111r, 120v–121r.

Bibl.: Yaḥyā Mahdawī, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi muṣannafāt-i Ibn-i Sīnā, Tehran: Dānishgāh-yi Tihrān, 1954; Muḥammad Taqī Dānishpazhūh, Fihrist-i mīkrūfīlmhā-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Markazī-yi Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, vol. I, Tehran: Dānishgāh-yi Tihrān, 1969 (1348 H.S.), pp. 472–473 (microfilm F 438); David C. Reisman, The Making of the Avicennan Tradition. The Transmission, Contents, and Structure of Ibn Sīnā’s al-Mubāḥaṭāt (The Discussions), Leiden: Brill, 2002, pp. 50–51 and 65.

111v–⁠120r

\111v\ كتاب الثمرة لبطلميوس في الأحكام وهو مائة فصل ١ قال بطلميوس علم النجوم منك ومنها ٢ وليس للعالم بها أن ينبّئ بصورة الفعل الشخصيّة كما ليس للحاسّ أن يقبل صورة المحسوس الشخصيّة ... — \120r\ وطلع ذو الذوابة في سنة اثنين وتسعين (كذا) وأقام إحدى عشر ليلة يسير كلّ ليلة مسيرًا محسوسًا فدخل ابن خليج بعده بمدّة يسيرة وتصلّط على مصر ونواحيها.

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

, version with 102 verba. — Title: Kitāb al-Thamara li-Baṭlamyūs fī l-aḥkām wa-huwa miʾat faṣl (111v). — Index: 100 verba. — Undated scribal colophon; a few corrections and glosses by the scribe. Verba 75–76 subsumed under a single verbum 77; verba 79–80 subsumed under a single verbum 80; verbum 100 replaced by Abū Jaʿfar’s commentary on it (C.3.1) and introduced by qāla Aḥmad b. Yūsuf.