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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Murad 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 pencil; 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. 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. Dimensions: 160×100 mm; written area: 100×60 mm; 19 lines per page. Marbled cardboard covers with black leather quarter binding. Type III binding.

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

Bibl.: Yazma Eserler Veritabanı: https://portal.yek.gov.tr/works/detail/310270.

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.