PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Cambridge, University Library, Add. 1191

[Colour photographs of the textblock and covers.]
Collection of two incomplete works: Judaeo-Arabic.  Date:

second work completed on Sunday, Jewish date 2 Adar Rāshūn (i.e., Adar I) 1665 Seleucid/26 January 1354 (colophon, 131v).

Or.:

Yemen; two unknown scribes.

Prov.:

undated statement of ownership by Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd al-Sūdī (131v). Undated note mentioning the scribal date, the place of copying, and the author of the Ptolemaic work, followed by a signature of Jacob Saphir (researcher of Hebrew manuscripts, 1822–1886) (IIr).

Cod.: paper, 132 ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in the upper left part of rectos, sometimes between the lines of the text body; catchwords only at the end of quires). Two different hands in black ink. First hand (1r–18v): mostly dotted ductus; chapter numbers and the beginning of sections in bold black and red. Second hand (19r–131v): fully dotted ductus; book titles in bold black and red. Chapter numbers in both parts indicated in Hebrew abjad notation. Several diagrams with lines in red, letters and labels in black. Manuscript in good condition; moisture stains on the outer edges of the paper and worm-eaten, occasionally affecting the readability of the text; a pasted piece of blank paper in place of a diagram (127v). Dimensions: not provided; 26–27 lines per page. Brown leather spine and marbled paper sides. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy — Index: al-Kharaqī, al-Tabṣira fī ʿilm al-hayʾa (1r–18v, chapters 17–22 of Part 1 and chapters 1–13 of Part 2); Ptolemaica (19r–131v); a Hebrew poem (131v); a long mathematical proposition (131v–132v). Blank: none.

Bibl.: Stefan C. Reif, Hebrew Manuscripts at the Cambridge University Library, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 337–338.

19r–⁠131v

\19r\ || בה מא חמלנא עלי אמעאן אלנצ֗ר פיה ואהתמאל אלמשׁקה ואלצעובה {...} לקאריה אלי אן חץל לנא בחמד אללה גמיע מא תצ֗מנה הד֗א אלכת֗ {...} אלהיית ולם נזל בעד ד֗לך נדים אלנצ֗ר ונואלי אלבחת֗ ואלתפכר פי מא ימכן אן יסהל בה אמר הד֗א אלעלם אלגסים ויקרב בה פהם הד֗א אלכת֗ אלעצ֗ים — \131v\ ויסתבין במא ד֗כרנאה פי אכ֗ר אלקול אלח איצ֗א אן אעצ֗ם אבעאדה אלץבאחיה פי אואיל ברג אלסרטאן לב גז ויב דקיקה פלד֗לך יבתל אלצ֗הור אלץבאחיה ויבטל ואד֗א כאן ד֗לך כד֗לך פאן סאיר אלצ֗הוראת אלמסאייה ואלץבאחייה פי הד֗ין אלמוצ֗עין אכ֗רי באן יבתל ותבטל.

\19r\ || به ما حملنا على إمعان النظر فيه واحتمال المشقّة والصعوبة {...} لقارية إلى أن حصل لنا بحمد الله جميع ما تضمّنه هذا الكتاب {...} الهيئة ولم نزل بعد ذلك نديم النظر ونوالي البحث والتفكّر في ما يمكن أن يسهل به أمر هذا العلم الجسيم ويقرب به فهم هذا الكتاب العظيم — \131v\ ويستبين بما ذكرناه في آخر القول الـح أيضاً أنّ أعظم أبعاده الصباحيّة في أوائل برج السرطان لب جزء ويب دقيقة فلذلك يبتل الظهور الصباحيّة ويبطل وإذا كان ذلك كذلك فإنّ سائر الظهورات المسائيّة والصباحيّة في هذين الموضعين أخرى بأن يبتل وتبطل.

= Jābir ibn Aflaḥ, al-Kitāb fī l-Hayʾa (C.1.14)

. — Title: none. — Index: author’s preface (acephalous), 19r–20r; Book I, 20r–34r; II, 34r–49r; III, 49r–55r; IV, 55r–68v; V, 68v–87v; VI, 87v–97v; VII, 97v–115r; VIII, 115r–121v; IX, 121v–131v (incomplete). — Dated scribal colophon (131v). The diagrams of Book I are numbered by Hebrew abjad numbers in black. Some glosses, numerous marginal corrections (mostly trimmed).