PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Doha, Matḥaf al-fann al-islāmī, 131

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]
Fragments of a single work: Arabic.  Date:

late fourth/tenth or beginning of the fifth/eleventh century (Bongianino).

Or.:

unknown, probably al-Andalus; unknown scribe. Part of the same original codex as MSS Fes, al-Qarawiyyīn, 654 and London, Khalili, MS 375.

Prov.:

auctioned by Sotheby’s in 2005.

Cod.: parchment, 8 ff. (unfoliated; no catchwords). A single clear Maghribi round hand in dark brown; mostly dotted ductus with occasional vowels and shaddas, occasional final hamzas. Chapter titles enlarged. Two diagrams with lines in red and letters in faded brown. Codex in very bad condition; damage by mold and moisture stains, especially in the margins; considerably worm-eaten. Dimensions: 24.5×18.5 cm, written area: c. 12×7.5 cm; 15–17 lines per page (ruling visible). Red leather cover decorated with a blind-stamped central mandorla and two pendants, all filled with floral patterns, and two double-line frames. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1r–8r). Blank: 3v, 8v.

Bibl.: Arts of the Islamic World. London, Wednesday, 12 October 2005, London: Sotheby’s, 2005, p. 26 (lot no. 16); Umberto Bongianino, “Nuggets of Ancient Wisdom”: an Early Andalusi Fragment of the Almagest and its Context, forthcoming.Sotheby’s: http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2005/arts-of-the-islamic-world-l05221/lot.16.html.

1r–⁠8r

\1r\ النوع التاسع في تبيين الأبعاد العظمى من الشمس للزهرة وعطارد وإذ قد أرشدنا إلى الأبواب التي بها يوقف على ما يوجد من أمر التقدّم فقد يجب أن تتبع ذلك بأن نبيّن مبلغ الأبعاد العظمى من الشمس التي تكون لكوكب الزهرة وكوكب عطارد في واحد واحد من البروج التي يجب وجودها من قبل الأصول الموضوعة — \8r\ أمّا في الثاني فلأبعاد الصباحيّة لكوكب الزهرة وأمّا في الثالث فالأبعاد المسائيّة له أيضًا وأمّا في الرابع فالأبعاد الصباحيّة لكوكب عطارد وأمّا في الخامس فالأبعاد المسائيّة له والله المستعان. وهاذه صورة الجداول وهو آخر المقالة الثانية عشرة من كتاب بطلميوس في التعاليم. والحمد للّه أوّلًا وآخرًا.

= Ptolemy, al-Majisṭī (tr. Isḥāq b. Ḥunayn/Thābit b. Qurra) (A.1.2)

. — Index: leaves covering parts of chapters XI.5, XI.7, XI.9 (complete), XI.10, XI.12 (complete), and XII.9 in great disorder; the correct order of the folios is as follows: 7 (XI.5); 6 (XI.7); 2 (XI.9); 4 (XI.10); 3, 5 (XI.12); 1, 8 (XII.9). — MSS Fes, al-Qarawiyyīn, 654 and London, Khalili, MS 375 contain leaves of other parts of Books XI to XIII from the same original codex. In particular, pp. 15–18, 25–32 and 19–22 of the Fes manuscript exactly fill up the gap between the beginning and end of chapter XII.9 in the Doha manuscript, so that the two manuscripts together contain this entire final chapter of Book XII without the table of maximum elongations of Venus and Mercury. — No marginalia.