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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Tehran, Madrasa-yi ʿĀlī-i Shahīd Muṭahharī (Sipahsālār), 612

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]
Collection of 18 works: Arabic and Persian.  Date:

pp. 90–97 completed on 26 Muḥarram 1257/20 March 1841 (p. 97); remainder of the manuscript copied by the same hand.

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

a statement and two square seals by the Qajar prince and minister of science ʿAlī Qulī Mīrzā (d. 1298/1880), known as Iʿtiḍād al-Salṭana, dated 1270/1853-4 (p. I). A statement of endowment and a square seal (twice) by the founder of the Sipahsālār Mosque and Library Ḥājjī Mīrzā Ḥusayn Sipahsālār (d. 1298/1881), known as Mushīr al-Dawla, dated Friday, 15 Dhū l-ḥijja 1297/18 November 1880 (p. I; Mushīr al-Dawla bought the private library of Iʿtiḍād al-Salṭana for the Sipahsālār Library). An oval seal by the library of the Madrasa Nāṣirī, i.e., the Sipahsālār Library, dated 1297/1879-80 (p. I).

Cod.: paper, I+109 pp. (paginated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pen just above the upper left corner of the inner frame on rectos, p. 1 being a verso; empty rectos after pp. 89 and 104 skipped, so that rectos have odd numbers on pp. 91–103; pagination repeated in pencil just above the outer frame, mostly cut off from the scans; no catchwords). A single black nastaʿlīq hand; fully dotted ductus with ligatures and numerous vowels, shaddas and hamzas. Work titles within the text in black or red, sometimes in thuluth; chapter titles, chapter beginnings and formulaic expressions (e.g., qāla) often in red, sometimes in black overlined in red; many reserved spaces for rubrication. A small, round horoscope in red, with quadrants rather than houses and text in black and red (margin of p. 88). Neat tables in red (pp. 59–64, unfinished on pp. 65–66 and 105–107); arguments in red or black, often in thuluth; values in abjad (rarely Hindu-Arabic) in red or black. Main text and single lines framed in red; reserved space for marginalia framed in red (not on pp. 4–5, 10–11, 32–38, 104bis–107); marginal additions with single lines framed in red (pp. 73, 81–83; not filled on pp. 81–82); chapter titles running vertically along the main text and framed in red (pp. 1–38, but not filled on pp. 12, 17–38). List of planetary dignities organised in four columns (pp. 39–57). Codex in very good condition; multiple folios lost (e.g., after pp. 90 and 124), text smeared on pp. 35 and 73, some smudges hardly ever affecting the readability. Dimensions: 17.5×9 cm; between 13 and 19 lines per page, 15 in the Ptolemaic work (pp. 102–104). Composite black and brown leather binding with turned-out doublures. Type III binding.

Cont.: astrology and astronomy. — Index: an untitled astrological chapter on the twelve houses (pp. 1–12); Jadwal madlūlāt al-burūj al-ithnay ʿashara (pp. 13–24, in Persian); untitled chapter, perhaps Jadwal madlūlāt al-kawākib al-sayyāra (pp. 25–38, in Persian); al-Quwā wa-l-ḍiʿāf li-kawākib, consisting in a short introduction and a list of planetary dignities organised in four columns (strength of a certain dignity, section numbering, dignity’s name and definition) (pp. 39–57, in Persian); untitled chapter on peculiar degrees in the signs, with tables (pp. 58–60, in Persian); a table on the magnitudes of the planets (p. 60, in Persian); a chapter Ḥuẓūẓ al-kawākib, with tables (pp. 61–62); a chapter on dodecatemoria, with a table (p. 63, in Persian); a chapter on nīmbahrs (half-signs, horās) and their associations with the Sun and the Moon, and on haftum-i bahrs (one-seventh of a sign, saptāṃśas) and their associations with the planets, with a table (p. 64, in Persian); two chapters on friendship and enmity of the planets, with incomplete tables (pp. 65–66, in Persian); a chapter on the temperament of the planets (pp. 67–70, in Persian); quotes from astrological authorities, possibly acephalous, beginning ikhtalafū fī maʿrifat al-dalīl fa-qāla Baṭlamyūs inna l-dalīl huwa l-kawkab al-mubtazz ʿalā darajat al-ṭāliʿ wa-l-nayyirayn wa-ijtimāʿ wa-l-istiqbāl (pp. 71–78); notes and quotes from astrological authorities, beginning fāʾida iʿlam anna l-shams tudfaʿu ilā man fawqa-hā min al-nujūm allatī fawqa-hā (pp. 79–89, end lost); Bahāʾ al‐Dīn Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn al‐ʿĀmilī, al-Ṣafīḥa fī l-asṭurlāb (pp. 90–97); a Persian text on fixed stars (pp. 98–101); Ptolemaica (pp. 102–104); a list of astrological lots (pp. 105–107, incomplete). Blank: pp. 89bis, 104bis, 108–109.

Bibl.: Muḥammad Taqī Dānishpazhūh and ʿAlīnaqī Munzawī, Fihrist-i Kitābkhāna-yi Sipahsālār, vol. III: Kutub-i khaṭṭī alif–thāʾ, Tehran: Chāpkhāna-yi Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 1962, p. 857; FankhāMuṣṭafā Dirāyatī, Fihristgān-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Īrān (Fankhā), 45 vols, Tehran: Library, Museum and Documentation Center of The Islamic Consultative Assembly, 2011–13 1390, vol. IX, p. 723 (no. 7) and vol. XXI, p. 714 (no. 86).

pp. 102–⁠104

\p. 102\ كتاب الثمرة لبطلميوس الحكيم تمام الكتب الأربعة التي ألّفها في الأحكام لسورس تلميذه قال قد قدّمنا لك يا سورس كتبًا في ما تؤثّرة الكواكب في عالم التركيب — \p. 104\ كسوف النيّرين في أوتاد طوالع المواليد وتحويلات السنين يضرّ بطبيعة ذلك البرج والوقت فيه أن يكون نسبة ما بين جزء الطالع وجزء الكسوف إلى مائة وثمانين جزءًا كنسبة ما بين ||

= Pseudo-Ptolemy, Kitāb al-Thamara (B.1.1)

, version with 100 verba (fragment). — Title: Kitāb al-Thamara li-Baṭlamyūs al-ḥakīm tamām al-Kutub al-Arbaʿa allatī allafa-hā fī l-aḥkām li-Sūrus talmīdhi-hi (p. 102). — Index: author’s introduction, p. 102; 24 verba, pp. 102–104. — No colophon. First verbum including the first and third part of verbum 1 only. Rubricated spaces at the beginning of all verba, filled with ‘kalima’ in red for verbum 1 only. Work breaking off in the middle of verbum 24 due to multiple folios being lost. No marginalia, except for a late reference to the entry on al-Ṭūsī’s commentary (C.3.4) in Āghā Buzurg Ṭihrānī’s al-Dharīʿa ilā taṣānīf al-Shīʿa (see DharīʿaĀqā Buzurg al-Ṭihrānī, ʿAlī Naqī Munzawī and Aḥmad Ḥusaynī Ishkawarī, al-Dharīʿa ilā taṣānīf al-Shīʿa, 26 vols, Najaf / Tehran, 1936–1985, vol. XIII, pp. 171–172, no. 578).