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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Murat Buhari 234

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and front cover.]
Single work: Arabic. Date:

undated.

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

a smudged octagonal seal including the name ‘Muṣṭafā’ (1r). Old shelfmark ‘263’ (front flyleaf, 1r).

Cod.: yellowish paper, 100 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in the upper left corner of rectos; catchwords). A slightly irregular black naskh hand; fully dotted ductus with occasional diacritics. Red ink for titles, chapter beginnings and textual dividers. Some tables and magical shapes, including celestial letters and long sequences of Hindu-Arabic numerals, in black and red. Dimensions: not provided; 19 lines per page. Codex in good condition; some moisture stains, smudges (in particular, a large one in the outer margin of f. 48v), damage by insects, at least one folio lost at the end of the manuscript. Marbled cardboard covers with black leather quarter binding. Type III binding.

Cont.: astrology. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–100v). Blank: Iv.

Bibl.: 

1v–⁠100v

\1v\ نبتدئ بعون الله تعالى نكتب طوالع البروج وهو شرح بطليموس الحكيم وبلعام العرّاف ابن قاغوز الفلكيّ ومن هذا نعرف مزاج الإنسان من الحارّ (كذا) والهوائيّ والمائيّ والترابيّ — \57v\ وزحل ترابيّ دلو وزحل هوائيّ حوت المشتري مائيّ تمّت البروج الاثنا عشر [tables]. نبتدئ بعون الله تعالى نكتب طوالع النساء وجميع ما يحدث عليهنّ من الأمراض والأعراض والتوابع والقرناء والأسحار وغير ذلك لأنّ الأعراض الداخلة على النساء أكثر من الرجال — \100v\ والله أعلم ولا بدّ تسحر فإن حملت هذا الحجاب تسلم من ذلك وهو هذا بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم  ٨٣١٣٨٤١٤١٥١٣٢٦٢٨ …

= Pseudo-Ptolemy and Balaam, Kitāb Ṭawāliʿ al-burūj (B.3.2)

. — Title: Ṭawāliʿ al-burūj wa-huwa sharḥ Baṭlīmūs al-ḥakīm wa-Balʿām al-ʿarrāf b. Qāghūz (read Bāʿūrāʾ) al-falakī (1v); Ṭawāliʿ al-nisāʾ wa-jamīʿ mā yaḥduthu ʿalay-hinna min al-amrāḍ wa-l-aʿrāḍ wa-l-tawābiʿ wa-l-quranāʾ wa-l-asḥār wa-ghayr dhālika li-anna l-aʿrāḍ al-dākhila ʿalā l-nisāʾ akthar min al-rijāl (57v). — Index: nativities of men for all twelve signs, 1v–57v; nativities of women for all twelve signs, 57v–100v. — Undated scribal colophon for the first part (57v). No colophon for the second part due to the final folio or folios being lost. Some marginal corrections by the scribe.