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 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. Aus dem Arabischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen versehen’, Zeitschrift für Mathematik und Physik. Historisch-literarische Abtheilung 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 — \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.5.1)

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