PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Kolkata, National Library of India, Buhar Arabic 353

[Black and white microfilm scans of the body text, without cover or binding.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

undated (c. 19th c., Hidāyat Ḥusain).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

an oval seal of the Jalāliyya library in Bohar, West Bengal, dated 1306/1888-9 (1r, 18v); two different stamps of the Imperial Library (1r, 10v, 19r), one dated 22 December 〈19〉04 (1r).

Cod.:

paper, 19 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals; catchwords). A single black naskh hand; almost fully dotted ductus with rare vowels. Verba numbered with abjad numerals, possibly in red. Codex apparently in good condition; some stains hindering the reading on f. 1v. Dimensions: 8×5¼ in (≈20.5×13.5 cm), written area: 5×2¾ in (≈12.5×7 cm) (Hidāyat Ḥusain); 10 lines per page.

Cont.:

astrology. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v-19r).

Bibl.:

M. Hidāyat Ḥusain, Catalogue raisonné of the Būhār Library, vol. II: Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Būhār Library, Calcutta: Imperial Library, 1923, p. 387 (no. 353).

1v–⁠19r

\1v\ 〈…〉 كتاب الثمرة لبطلميوس الحكيم تمام الكتب الأربعة التي ألّفها في الأحكام لسورس تلميذه قال بطلميوس قد قدّمنا لك يا سورس كتبًا فيما يؤثّره الكواكب في عالم التركيب كثيرة المنفعة في تقدمة المعرفة وهذا الكتاب ثمرة ما اشتم[...]ك الكتب وما خلّص عن التجربة منها. — \19r\ 〈…〉 وإن كان ذو الذواية (sic) تسير وسيره أبدًا يكون من المغرب إلى المشرق فإنّ الخارجيّ يأتي من بعيدة الأقاليم وإن لم يكن سائرًا فإنّ الخارجيّ من حضرة ذلك الإقليم.

= Pseudo-Ptolemy, Kitāb al-Thamara (B.1.1). — Title: Kitāb al-Thamara li-Baṭlīmus (incipit, 1v). — Additional titles: Kitāb al-Thamara fī aḥkām al-nujūm (added on 1r). — Index: author’s preface, 1v; 102 verba, 1v–19r. — No colophon or marginalia.