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Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Or. oct. 274

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single incomplete work: Arabic. Date:

undated, before 914/1508 (c. 900/1500, Qalamos).

Or.:

unknown, probably Ottoman Empire; first of the two parts copied by a certain al-Qayyūmī (1r) and the other by an unknown scribe.

Prov.:

an undated smudged Arabic ownership statement by a certain al-Qayyūmī, who also copied the first part of the manuscript (wa-baʿḍ min-hā bi-khaṭṭi-hi ayḍan, 1r). An ownership statement by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAlī b. al-Muʾayyad dated Sunday, 14 Jumādā l-ūlā 914/10 September 1508 in Constantinople (1r). An undated ownership statement by Shaykh Muḥammad b. Luṭf Allāh (1r); an undated ownership statement by Ḥasan al-… al-Ḥanafī (1r). German title ‘Commentar zum Almagest’ (Ir); an oval old stamp ‘Ex Bibl. Regia Berolin.’ (1r); accession number 10310 (1r, inner back cover).

Cod.: paper, I+112+III^a ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil; an older foliation with Hindu-Arabic numerals at the top centre of versos, skipping f. 14 and the number 88; catchwords). Two different nastaʿlīq hands, both in black; textual dividers in the form of a circle with a dot at the centre. First hand (1v–19r): occasionally dotted ductus, every section introduced by qawlu-hu / aqūlu in red (sometimes left blank, e.g., 17r, 18r, 19r); four diagrams with red lines and black letters (6r, 11v), two empty spaces reserved for diagrams (11v, 12v). Second hand (19r–112r): very neat but irregularly dotted ductus; every section introduced by qawlu-hu in red; one diagram with black lines and red letters (24v); occasional overlined initials; abjad numbers and geometrical points in black or red, very rare Hindu-Arabic numerals (e.g., 41r). Some of the beginnings of books or chapters were indicated in the margins by a different hand (16v, 39v, 43r, 80r). Codex in good condition; moisture stains on the lower half and in the inner upper corners of all folios, not affecting the readability; minor damage caused by insects in the margins. Dimensions: 17⅔×13 cm, written area: 12×8½ cm; 19 lines per page. Dark brown leather covers with simple frames and a small blind-stamped central circle. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1r–112r). Blank: Iv, I^a–III^a.

Bibl.: Wilhelm Ahlwardt, Verzeichniss der arabischen Handschriften der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin, vol. V, Berlin: Asher, 1893, vol. V, pp. 144–145 (no. 5657); Paul Kunitzsch, Ibn aṣ-Ṣalāḥ. Zur Kritik der Koordinatenüberlieferung im Sternkatalog des Almagest. Arabischer Text nebst deutscher Übersetzung, Einleitung und Anhang, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1975, pp. 115–123. — Qalamos: https://www.qalamos.net/receive/DE1Book_manuscript_00004087 (with scans).

1v–⁠112r Images	\1v\ قوله كتاب المجسطي. المجسطي كلمة يونانيّة ومعناها الترتيب قوله على ما في النسخة التي نقلها إسحق إلخ للمجسطي ثلث نسخ مشهورة — \112r\ ثمّ يأخذ في الزيادة إلى أن يصير مساويًا لا ح بل إلى أن يصير أعظم منه بأربعة أمثال ا ب. = Qāḍī-Zāda al-Rūmī, 〈Ḥāshiya ʿalā Sharḥ al-Majisṭī〉 (C.1.40) . — Titles: Ḥāshiyat Majisṭī li-Qāḍī Zāda (1r, twice), Ḥāshiyat al-Majisṭī li-Qāḍī Zāda (tail). — Index: 〈Book I〉, 1v–16r; 〈II〉, 16v–26v; 〈III〉, 26v–39v; 〈IV〉, 39v–51r; 〈V〉, 51r–64v; 〈VI〉, 65r–80v; 〈VII〉, 80v–94v; 〈VIII〉, 94v–108v; 〈IX〉, 108v–112r (incomplete at the end). — No colophon; the scribe stopped copying in the middle of chapter IX.6. Minor glosses, often trimmed; marginal corrections in the scribe’s hand indicated with ṣ.

1v–⁠112r

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\1v\ قوله كتاب المجسطي. المجسطي كلمة يونانيّة ومعناها الترتيب قوله على ما في النسخة التي نقلها إسحق إلخ للمجسطي ثلث نسخ مشهورة — \112r\ ثمّ يأخذ في الزيادة إلى أن يصير مساويًا لا ح بل إلى أن يصير أعظم منه بأربعة أمثال ا ب.

= Qāḍī-Zāda al-Rūmī, 〈Ḥāshiya ʿalā Sharḥ al-Majisṭī〉 (C.1.40)

. — Titles: Ḥāshiyat Majisṭī li-Qāḍī Zāda (1r, twice), Ḥāshiyat al-Majisṭī li-Qāḍī Zāda (tail). — Index: 〈Book I〉, 1v–16r; 〈II〉, 16v–26v; 〈III〉, 26v–39v; 〈IV〉, 39v–51r; 〈V〉, 51r–64v; 〈VI〉, 65r–80v; 〈VII〉, 80v–94v; 〈VIII〉, 94v–108v; 〈IX〉, 108v–112r (incomplete at the end). — No colophon; the scribe stopped copying in the middle of chapter IX.6. Minor glosses, often trimmed; marginal corrections in the scribe’s hand indicated with ṣ.