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

unknown (Egypt, according to King); ff. 35v–113r copied by Aḥmad ibn Salāma al-Rimāḥī.

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

Cod.:

paper, 114 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals on the top left recto pages; ff. 35-113 also foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals starting from 1; catchwords). Two black naskh hands (1r-29v and 35v-113r) with overlining and oversized formulas; red ink not discernible from black on the scans; fully dotted ductus, no diacritics or hamzas. Clear diagrams and tables by the first hand, sloppier tables by the second hand. Hindu-Arabic numerals only. Codex in good condition, binding often loose. Dimensions: 21×16 cm (library card). 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, vol. II, pp. 722–725); Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ, Epistle 3 on astronomy-astrology (23r-29v, incomplete); astrological notes and table of contents of the following work (30r-33v); collection of texts on astrology, divination and astrometeorology (35v-96v; table of contents in King, vol. II, pp. 649–650); collection of texts on magic and the names of God (97r-107v); a poem by Muḥammad al-Ājurrī al-Mālikī (108r-111r); an anonymous work on divination (111r-113r; see King, 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, 161–184, pp. 169, 180 fn. 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), p. 801 (no. 5.5.3.11).