Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hunt. 547
Ptolemaic work completed on Thursday, 10 Jumādā l-ūlā 979/Sunday (!), 30 September 1571 (colophon, 19v); second work undated.
Or.:unknown; first work copied by Yūnus al-Azharī al-Batnūnī (19v), second work copied by Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Rūmī al-Aghrāsī al-Ḥanafī (21r).
Prov.:a statement of ownership by a certain ʿAlī b. Muḥammad, dated 1052/1642-3 (1r). Old shelfmark ‘73 R. Huntington’ and current shelfmark ‘Hunt. 547’ (1r); current shelfmark ‘Hunt. 547’ and Uri catalogue number ‘Arab. Moh. CMXX’ (Ir).
Cod.: I+65+I ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil; catchwords). Two different hands. First hand (1v–19v, Ptolemaic work): slightly angular naskh; almost fully dotted ductus, no shaddas, no hamzas; rubricated chapter and book numbers, catch titles in tawqīʿ in red (except for Books I and XI); substantial diagrams with letters and a few labels. Second hand (21v–65v): reclined naskh; almost fully dotted ductus, occasional shaddas, no hamzas; substantial diagrams with labels, the position of the apogees in the diagrams are said to have been marked by a certain Muḥammad, referred to as ‘the son’ (al-walad) on f. 21r; several marginal corrections, sometimes cut off (48r) and occasionally folded in (55r, 63r) when the manuscript was trimmed. Codex in acceptable condition; significant damage on ff. 23–31, partially restored by replacing large parts of ff. 26–30r by empty pieces of paper; occasional moisture stains and smudges of ink affecting the body text. Dimensions: not provided; 29/27 lines per page (misṭara imprints visible). Modern light brown cardboard cover with double-frame. Type III binding, originally type II (traces of the flap on f. I).
Cont.: astronomy. —
Bibl.: Joannes Uri, Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ codicum manuscriptorum orientalium, videlicet Hebraicorum, Chaldaicorum, Syriacorum, Aethiopicorum, Arabicorum, Persicorum, Turcicorum, Copticorumque catalogus. Pars prima, Oxford: Clarendon, 1787, p. 200 (no.
1v–19v
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\1v\ = al-Khāzimī, Ikhtiṣār al-Majisṭī (C.1.13)
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