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London, Khalili Foundation, MS 375

[Catalogue entry and partial colour scanned images.]

Fragments of a single work: Arabic. Date:

late fourth/tenth or beginning of the fifth/eleventh century (Bongianino).

Or.:

unknown, probably al-Andalus; unknown scribe. Part of the same original codex as MSS Doha, MIA, 131 and Fes, al-Qarawiyyīn, 654.

Prov.:

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Cod.: vellum, 8 folios (two pairs of two bifolios, apparently unfoliated; no catchwords). A carefully written Maghribi round hand in brown, red, green, and purple ink. Mostly dotted ductus with occasional vocalisation and some miniature letters written under undotted letters such as ḥāʾ and ʿayn. Section title enlarged. Geometrical points in the main text written out as full letter names. Dimensions: 24.2×17.9 cm, written area: 11.9×17.4 cm; 16 or 17 lines per page. Smudges occasionally hindering the reading.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1r–8v).

Bibl.: Francis Maddison and Emilie Savage-Smith, Science, Tools and Magic. Part One. Body and Spirit, Mapping the Universe, Oxford: The Nour Foundation, 1997, pp. 176–177 (no. 116); Umberto Bongianino, “Nuggets of Ancient Wisdom”: an Early Andalusi Fragment of the Almagest and its Context, forthcoming. — The Khalili Collections: https://www.khalilicollections.org/collections/hajj-and-the-arts-of-pilgrimage/fragments-from-the-almagest-of-ptolemy-mss-375/.

1r–⁠8v	\1r\  \|\|زاوية هاء جيم كاء أيضًا عشرة أجزاء واثنتان وثلاثون دقيقة بالأجزاء التي بها زاويتان قائمتان ثلاث مائة وستّون جزءًا وبهذه الأجزاء وضعت زاوية جيم زاي لام مائة وثلاثة عشر جزءًا. = Ptolemy, al-Majisṭī (tr. Isḥāq b. Ḥunayn/Thābit b. Qurra) (A.1.2) . A fragment from chapters XI.5–6 (ff. 1r–4v) and two disjunct fragments from chapter XIII.5 (ff. 5r–8v).

1r–⁠8v

\1r\  ||زاوية هاء جيم كاء أيضًا عشرة أجزاء واثنتان وثلاثون دقيقة بالأجزاء التي بها زاويتان قائمتان ثلاث مائة وستّون جزءًا وبهذه الأجزاء وضعت زاوية جيم زاي لام مائة وثلاثة عشر جزءًا.

= Ptolemy, al-Majisṭī (tr. Isḥāq b. Ḥunayn/Thābit b. Qurra) (A.1.2)

. A fragment from chapters XI.5–6 (ff. 1r–4v) and two disjunct fragments from chapter XIII.5 (ff. 5r–8v).