PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Cairo, Dār al-kutub, mīqāt 122

[Black-and-white microfilm scans of the textblock.]
Collection of nine works: Arabic.  Date:

ff. 1r–29v: undated (c. 1150/1750; King, Fihris); ff. 35v–96v completed on 28 Muḥarram 1184/24 May 1770; ff. 97r–107v completed on 25 Muḥarram 1183/31 May 1769; ff. 108r–113r copied by the same hand as ff. 35v–107v.

  Or.:

Egypt (King, Fihris); ff. 35v–113r copied by Aḥmad b. Salāma al-Rimāḥī.

  Prov.:

two different seals of the Dār al-kutub (respectively 29v, 35v and 1r, 114v).

Cod.: paper, 114 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals; ff. 35–113 also foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals starting from ‘1’; catchwords). Two black naskh hands (1r–29v and 35v–113r), each with fully dotted ductus, no diacritics or hamzas. Overlining and oversized formulas; red ink not discernible from black on the scans. Hindu-Arabic numerals only. Clear diagrams and tables by the first hand, sloppier tables by the second hand. Codex in good condition; binding often loose. Dimensions: 21×16 cm; mostly 23 lines per page on ff. 1r–29v, 17 on ff. 35v–107v.

Cont.: astrology, divination, astronomy, and poetry. — Index: an astrological note (1r); Ptolemaica (1r–2r); two collections of anonymous chapters on astronomy and astrology (2v–16r and 17r–22v; tables of contents in King, Fihris, vol. II, pp. 722–725); Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ, Epistle 3 on astronomy-astrology (23r–29v, end lost); astrological notes and table of contents of the following work (30r–33v); collection of texts on astrology and divination (35v–96v; table of contents in King, Fihris, vol. II, pp. 649–650); collection of texts on magic and the names of God (97r–107v); a poem by Muḥammad al-Ājurrī l-Mālikī (108r–111r); an anonymous work on divination (111r–113r; see King, Fihris, vol. II, p. 801); added notes (113v–114r). Blank: 16v, 34r–35r, 114v.

Bibl.: Heinrich Suter, ‘Der V. Band des Katalogs der arabischen Bücher der viceköniglichen Bibliothek in Kairo’, Zeitschrift für Mathematik und Physik, historisch-litterarische Abteilung 38 (1893), pp. 1–24, 41–57, and 161–184, here p. 169 and p. 180 n. 30 (manuscript misidentified as a witness of the Almagest); GAS VIIFuat Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, Vol. VII: Astrologie – Meteorologie und Verwandtes bis ca. 430 H., Leiden: Brill, 1979, p. 46 (no. 9); David A. King, Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʿilmiyya al-maḥfūẓa bi-Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣriyya, 2 vols, Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organisation, 1981–1986, vol. I, pp. 26–27; vol. II, pp. 649–650 (no. 5.1.1.13), p. 656 (no. 5.1.3.3), pp. 722–725 (no. 5.2.31.2), and p. 801 (no. 5.5.3.11); David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns / Cairo: The American Research Center in Egypt, 1986, p. 293.

1r–⁠2r

\1r\ هذا كتاب المجالس لبطليموس الحكيم المشهور. إذا أردت الدخول على سلطان أو أحد من الناس فاعرف دخولك وأين يجلس الجالس إذا دخل على سلطان وكذلك المدخول عليه يعرف أين يجلس في مثل ما قد بيّنّاه في هذه الزايرجة — \2r\ إذا أراد صاحب المجلس التنافس والرتبة العالية وارتفاع المحلّ فيعتمد بالجلوس في حدّ الجوزهر ما بين المغرب والجنوب.

= Pseudo-Ptolemy, Kitāb al-Majālis (B.6.1)

. — Title: Kitāb al-Majālis li-Baṭlīmūs al-ḥakīm al-mashhūr (1r). — No colophons. No marginalia. Folio 1r was reproduced in King, A Survey.