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Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, Ar. 4566

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Single work, incomplete: Arabic. Date:

undated, 10^th/16^th c. (Kahle, Arberry).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

an ownership statement by Ibrāhīm Jalabī b. Uzbak Bīk, a 17^th-century collector who owned numerous other manuscripts; cf. Pierre A. MacKay, ‘The Manuscripts of the Seyahatname of Evliya Çelebi. Part I: the Archetype’, Der Islam 52 (1975), pp. 278–298, here p. 293 (1r). An erased statement (1r). Old numbering used for the collection purchased from Aslan Sarkissian between 1934 and 1949: ‘AS 465’ (inside of front cover, Ir).

Cod.: paper, I+49+I^a ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil, from f. 10 to 40 only on every fifth recto; catchwords). A clear, mostly dotted and at times vocalized naskh hand; occasional final hamzas, no indication of shaddas, and frequent use of lām-alif mukhaffafa; undotted abjad notation in red ink. Chapter titles rubricated by the scribe (sometimes in the margins), paragraph beginnings partially highlighted with red overlines. No tables or diagrams (apart from a list in columns, 15r). Dimensions: 20.8×14 cm, width of the lines 3¾ in; 17 lines per page (eastern misṭara imprints). Some damage caused by insects, not affecting the readability; beginning corrosion of the paper due to iron gall ink, some pages apparently becoming loose. Partial leather cover with fore-edge and envelope flap (barely visible on the images). Type II binding.

Cont.: astrology. — Index: Ptolemaica (1r–49r).

Bibl.: Paul Kahle, Arabic Mss in the Chester Beatty Library, 5 vols, unpublished typescript, Dublin: Chester Beatty Library, c. 1940, vol. II, pp. 371–374; Arthur J. Arberry, The Chester Beatty Library. A Handlist of the Arabic Manuscripts, Volume VI: MSS. 4501–5000, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co., 1963, pp. 20–21; François Charette, Descriptions of Arabic Scientific Manuscripts in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin (unpublished draft version), Dublin: Chester Beatty Library, c. 2010, pp. 501–503.

1r–⁠49r	\1r\ في قوى الكواكب التي ليست متحيّرة وإذا كان يتلوا هذه الأشياء ذكر طبائع [[الأشياء التي]] الكواكب التي ليست متحيّرة التي هي لها بحسب فعلها الخاصّ لها فإنّا نأخذ في ذلك ونجبر (كذا) بالتغييرات التي وجدت لها عند ما رصدت. — \49r\ ثمّ تنظر بعد ذلك إلى الكواكب التي يستحقّ أن تكون لها تدبير ذلك الموضع بالخمسة الأنواع التي ذكرنا فيما تقّدم من قولنا فإن كان المدبّر لذلك الموضع كوكبًا. = Ptolemy, Kitāb Arbaʿ maqālāt (tr. Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ṣalt/Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq) (A.2.3) . — Title: Maqālāt Arbaʿ li-Baṭlamyūs (1r).— Index: Book I (beginning missing), 1r–17r; II, 17r–44r; III (end missing), 44r–49r. — The codex begins with Chapter I.9 and ends in the middle of Chapter III.3. Books I and II with authorial colophon; no scribal colophon. Book II with glosses by Thābit b. Qurra, some included in the body text. Further glosses in the margins, at times trimmed. Marginal corrections mostly indicated by sigla ṣ or ṣḥ. A collation note on f. 32r.

1r–⁠49r

\1r\ في قوى الكواكب التي ليست متحيّرة وإذا كان يتلوا هذه الأشياء ذكر طبائع [[الأشياء التي]] الكواكب التي ليست متحيّرة التي هي لها بحسب فعلها الخاصّ لها فإنّا نأخذ في ذلك ونجبر (كذا) بالتغييرات التي وجدت لها عند ما رصدت. — \49r\ ثمّ تنظر بعد ذلك إلى الكواكب التي يستحقّ أن تكون لها تدبير ذلك الموضع بالخمسة الأنواع التي ذكرنا فيما تقّدم من قولنا فإن كان المدبّر لذلك الموضع كوكبًا.

= Ptolemy, Kitāb Arbaʿ maqālāt (tr. Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ṣalt/Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq) (A.2.3)

. — Title: Maqālāt Arbaʿ li-Baṭlamyūs (1r).— Index: Book I (beginning missing), 1r–17r; II, 17r–44r; III (end missing), 44r–49r. — The codex begins with Chapter I.9 and ends in the middle of Chapter III.3. Books I and II with authorial colophon; no scribal colophon. Book II with glosses by Thābit b. Qurra, some included in the body text. Further glosses in the margins, at times trimmed. Marginal corrections mostly indicated by sigla ṣ or ṣḥ. A collation note on f. 32r.