Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Wetzstein II 1155
[Colour scanned images of the body text without covers or binding.]
ff. 1r–57r and 58r–64r copied in 1238/1822-3; remainder of the manuscript copied by the same hand.
Or.:unknown, possibly Egypt based on the copyist’s name and the fāʾida on the Nile on f. 64v; copied by Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Maghribī al-Dimyāṭī al-Azharī (57r, 64r).
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Cod.:
yellow paper, 70 ff. (foliated with European-Arabic numerals at the top left of recto pages; catchwords). An irregular and sloppy black naskh hand; titles, table headings and textual dividers in red, chapter beginnings overlined in red; fully dotted ductus without diacritics. Carelessly drawn tables in black with red headings and Hindu-Arabic numerals. Codex in good condition; binding loose, margins occasionally damaged. Dimensions: 15⅔×11¼ cm, written area: 11½×6 cm on ff. 1r–57r, larger on ff. 58r–66v (Ahlwardt); 13 lines per page on ff. 1r–57r, 16–18 lines on ff. 58r–66v. Cardboard covers with brown leather quarter binding. Type II binding.
Cont.:
astrometeorology, astrology and divination. —
Bibl.:
Wilhelm Ahlwardt, Verzeichniss der arabischen Handschriften der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin, vol. V, Berlin: Asher, 1893, pp. 297 (no. 5897), 304 (no. 5910(2)) and 307–308 (no. 5916); SBB Orient digital: http://orient-digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/receive/SBBMSBook_islamhs_00023581 (with images).
1v–57r |
\1v\ 〈…〉 هذا تقويم الشعرى اليمانيّة من كتاب الحاكمي وهرمس الحكيم وبطليموس قالت الحكماء إنّ الشعرى كوكب كانت الجاهليّة فيما مضى يعبدوها — \57r\ 〈…〉 الصبغ تشتري في كيهك وتباع في برموده الادهان كلّها تشتري في أبيب وتباع في برمهات. = Pseudo-Ptolemy, al-Ḥākimī and Hermes, Taqwīm al-Shiʿrā al-yamāniyya (B.4.2). — |
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