PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi Millī-yi Īrān, 7450

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]
Collection of two works: Arabic and Persian.  Date:

undated, ‘probably 13th/19th c.’ (Anwār).

Or.:

‘probably India’ (Anwār); unknown scribe.

Prov.:

two smudged, illegible octagonal stamps (1r). The manuscript matches the microfilm scans of an unnumbered manuscript allegedly held at the Sulṭān al-Madāris Library in Lucknow and still lacking the round Millī Library stamps found on ff. 1v, 40r and 56v. Additional shelfmark: ‘138’ (front flyleaves).

Cod.: paper, 56 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil; traces of a pagination in pencil at the centre top of most pages; catchwords in the bottom centre). A single neat black naskh hand; mostly dotted ductus with occasional diacritics. Pseudo-Ptolemy’s verba overlined in red, with numbering written out in full. First page with a headpiece for the basmala in gold, red and green and interlinear spaces filled in gold (1v). Codex in bad condition; damage by moisture and insects throughout, ink corroding the paper; numerous pasted paper slips and strips of tape, occasionally affecting the readability. Dimensions: 253×165 mm, written area: 172×95 mm; 19 lines per page on ff. 1v–52v, 10 lines on ff. 53r–56v. Red leather cover over marbled paper pasteboards, decorated with a golden floral motif. Type III binding.

Cont.: astrology. — Index: a magical square (1r); Ptolemaica (1v–52v); Abū Maʿshar, Kitāb al-Nukat (53r–56v, with an incomplete interlinear Persian translation). Blank: none.

Bibl.: Parwīn Mutawārī Sūrakī, Fihrist-i nusakh-i khaṭṭī-yi Sāzmān-i Asnād wa Kitābkhāna-yi Millī-i Jumhūrī-yi Islāmī-yi Īrān, Vol. XXVII: Az shumāra-yi 7301 tā 7600 3083, Tehran: Kitābkhāna-yi Millī, 2016 (1395 H.S.), pp. 218–220.

1v–⁠52v

\1v\ كتاب الثمرة لبطليموس الحكيم تمام الكتب الأربعة التي ألّفها في الأحكام لسورس تلميذه. قال قد قدّمنا لك يا سورس كتبًا فيما يؤثّر الكواكب في عالم التركيب كثير المنفعة في تقدمة المعرفة وهذا الكتاب ثمرة ما اشتملت عليه تلك الكتب وما خلّص عن التجربة منها وليس يصل إلى معرفته من لم يمعن النظر فيما قدّمنا قبله وفي علوم أخر من علوم الرياضيّة فكن به سعيدًا. — \52v\ وإن لم يكن يسير فهو يخرج من ذلك الإقليم وهذه آخر كلمات كتاب الثمرة وتفسير ذلك وقد أورد {…} الكتاب. تمّ كتاب الثمرة المسمّى بالروميّة نطرومسطا ومعناه المائة كلمة.

= Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Tafsīr Kitāb al-Thamara (Arabic–Arabic version) (C.3.5)

. — Title: Kitāb al-Thamara li-Baṭlīmūs al-ḥakīm tamām al-Kutub al-Arbaʿa allatī allafa-hā fī l-aḥkām li-Sūrus talmīdhi-hi (1v). — Additional title: Kalimāt Kitāb al-Thamara wa-tafsīr dhālika (52v); Kitāb al-Thamara al-musammā bi-l-rūmiyya n-ṭ-r-w-m-s-ṭ-ā wa-maʿnā-hu l-miʾa kalima (52v). — Index: Pseudo-Ptolemy’s introduction, 1v; commentary on the introduction, 1v–2r; 102 verba intertwined with the commentary, 2r–52v. — Commentator’s colophon with Greek title; no scribal colophon. The Arabic version of the commentary on Pseudo-Ptolemy’s introduction is unique to this manuscript. Numerous glosses, mostly in Persian and including several horoscopes with abjad numerals.