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Istanbul, Üniversitesi, A 6141

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single incomplete work: Arabic. Date:

undated, 13^th/19^th c. (GAS VII).

Or.:

unknown; unknown copyist.

Prov.:

A faded seal ‘Maḥmūd’ (1r). Old shelfmarks: ‘D 8202’ (II^a) and ‘182’ (spine, front cover); accession number (?): ‘16599’ (inner front cover).

Cod.: paper, 36+II^a ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in the upper left margins; a second foliation with Arabic-European numerals in the upper left corners of the text frame; catchwords in the scribe’s hand). A single neat naskh hand with nastaʿlīq influence (on ff. 35r–43v bigger letters written with a thick nibbed pen, probably by the same hand). Mostly dotted ductus without vowel marks, shaddas and maddas often indicated, very few final hamzas, frequent use of lām-alif muḥaqqaqa. Rubricated chapter titles and paragraph beginnings; occasional catch titles in the margins rubricated (e.g., 14v–16r). Main text enclosed in a thin red frame, spaces for illumination and title pieces reserved (1v, 29r). Dotted abjad notation in the body text, highlighted in red ink. No tables or diagrams. A large number of folios was lost after f. 34: the original catchword on f. 34v was replaced by the first word on the next page and the fold was repaired with paper slips; otherwise the manuscript is in good condition with very few handling stains. Dimensions: 18×12 cm; 17 lines per page (misṭara imprints). Rebound in a red leather cover with a golden floral frame and central ornament. Doublures decorated with şal ebru. Type III binding.

Cont.: astrology. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–34v); Sahl b. Bishr, Nawāḍir al-qaḍāʾ (35r–36v; chapters 38–50, with undated colophon).

Bibl.: Toufic Fahd, La divination arabe. Études religieuses, sociologiques et folkloriques sur le milieu natif de l’Islam, Leiden: Brill, 1966, p. 233 n. 6; GAS VIIFuat Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, Vol. VII: Astrologie – Meteorologie und Verwandtes bis ca. 430 H., Leiden: Brill, 1979, p. 43.

1v–⁠34v Images	\1v\ أمّا بعد فهذا ما ابتدأ به الحكيم الفاضل بطلميوس القلوذي من كتابه المعرف بالأربعة التي جعلها رسالة إلى تلميذه ملك اليونان سوري في أحكام النجوم و دلائلها في أسباب المواليد — \34v\ وفيهم أيضًا جبن وغشّ وخبّ وغدر على قدر طباع الكواكب التي ملّي تدبير هذه المثلّث \|\| = Ptolemy, Kitāb al-Arbaʿ (tr. unknown) (A.2.3) . — Title: Kitāb al-Arbaʿ (incipit, 1v). — Index: Book I, 1v–29r; II, 29r–34v. — Book II ends abruptly in the third chapter; no colophon for the Ptolemaic part. Very few marginal corrections occasionally indicated by siglum ṣ, some words erased by surrounding or overwriting them with red dots (e.g., 3r, 15v, 28r). A short verse in the margin of f. 7v, collation notes in the scribe’s hand (e.g., 10v, 11v).

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\1v\ أمّا بعد فهذا ما ابتدأ به الحكيم الفاضل بطلميوس القلوذي من كتابه المعرف بالأربعة التي جعلها رسالة إلى تلميذه ملك اليونان سوري في أحكام النجوم و دلائلها في أسباب المواليد — \34v\ وفيهم أيضًا جبن وغشّ وخبّ وغدر على قدر طباع الكواكب التي ملّي تدبير هذه المثلّث ||

= Ptolemy, Kitāb al-Arbaʿ (tr. unknown) (A.2.3)

. — Title: Kitāb al-Arbaʿ (incipit, 1v). — Index: Book I, 1v–29r; II, 29r–34v. — Book II ends abruptly in the third chapter; no colophon for the Ptolemaic part. Very few marginal corrections occasionally indicated by siglum ṣ, some words erased by surrounding or overwriting them with red dots (e.g., 3r, 15v, 28r). A short verse in the margin of f. 7v, collation notes in the scribe’s hand (e.g., 10v, 11v).