Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, Ar. 4566
undated, 10th/16th c. (Kahle, Arberry).
Or.:unknown; unknown scribe.
Prov.:an ownership statement by Ibrāhīm Jalabī b. Uzbak Bīk, a seventeenth-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
Cod.: paper, I+49+Ia 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, written area: c. 9½ cm wide; 17 lines per page (eastern misṭara imprints). Some damage caused by insects, not affecting the readability; minor ink corrosion, some pages apparently becoming loose. Partial leather cover with fore-edge and envelope flap (barely visible on the images). Type II binding.
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Bibl.: Paul Kahle, Arabic Mss in the Chester Beatty Library, 5 vols, unpublished typescript, Dublin: Chester Beatty Library, c. 1940, vol.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pp. 20–21; François Charette, Descriptions of Arabic Scientific Manuscripts in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin (unpublished draft version), Dublin: Chester Beatty Library, c. 2010, pp. 501–503.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
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\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 b. al-Ṣalt/Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq/Thābit b. Qurra) (A.2.2)
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