PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Mumbai, K. R. Cama Oriental Institute, R I.86

[Black and white microfilm scans of ff. 1v–72r and 87v–108r.]
Collection of at least eleven works: Arabic.  Date:

undated, 6th/12th c. (Sezgin).

Or.:

unknown, unknown copyists.

Prov.:

statement of purchase by al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī al-Bundārī dated Ramaḍān 730 (?)/June-July 1330 (88r); partially readable statement mentioning al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn al-Bundārī (88r). Oval seal hardly legible on the microfilm (33r, 67r); titles of some of the following works, a note with spherical astronomical data for Isfahan, and various statements not easily legible on the microfilm (88r). Large round and rectangular stamps of the Mulla Firuz library (e.g., 1v, 21v, 63v); former shelfmark: ‘Astr. 86’.

Cod.: paper, at least 149 ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals at the top center of rectos; ff. 88–108 also numbered separately from 1 to 23 (skipping 8 and 9) with Hindu-Arabic numerals, Persian variants, in the top left corner of rectos; the folio number ‘14’ is also used for an inlaid sheet preceding f. 14 and here referred to as 14bis; catchwords, sometimes hardly visible in the shadow of the fold). At least four different hands. First hand (2r–25r and 58r–72r): a clear naskh; almost fully dotted ductus, few vowel marks, hamzas, rare shaddas, occasional large bowls; basmalas in bold kūfī, chapter headings presumably in red; 21 lines per page. Second hand (25v–33v): a quick naskh; almost fully dotted ductus, some vowel marks, no shaddas or hamzas; 22 lines per page. Third hand (34r–57v): a naskh with tendency to nastaʿlīq, sometimes written in very small letters; almost fully dotted ductus, some vowel marks, no shaddas or hamzas; 19–26 lines per page. Fourth hand (88v–96r): a sometimes dense naskh; almost fully dotted ductus, some vowel marks, shaddas and hamzas; 23 lines per page. The third, fourth and fifth works are surrounded by a thin rule-border, except for f. 51. Codex seemingly in satisfactory condition; worm damage in the upper and lower margins, sometimes affecting the body text; some pages partially restored. Dimensions: c. 20×10 cm. Leather covers (Rehatsek). Type III binding. This codex is probably a composite manuscript, i.e., separate original parts were bound together at a later point.

Cont.: astronomy, mathematics (based on the accessible part of the manuscript). — Index: Kushyār b. Labbān, Fī ʿilm al-Asṭurlāb wa-ʿamali-hi (2r; incomplete); Kushyār b. Labbān, Kitāb al-Asṭurlāb (2v–25r); chapters on the astrolabe from several other works (25v–33v); Sinān b. Yaḥyā al-Khurāsānī, Risālat ṣifat ḥuqq al-qamar (34r–44v); unknown, Risālah fī stikhrāj kayfīyyat al-ʿamal bi-l-asṭurlāb al-qamarī al-masaṭūḥ (44v–45v); unknown, Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-l-rubʿ (46r–57v); Ptolemaica (58r–72r); Qusṭā b. Lūqā, Kitāb al-ʿAmal bi-l-kura al-falakiyya (72v–87v; see GAS VI, p. 181); Kushyār b. Labbān, Uṣūl ḥisāb al-hind (88v–107r); Abū l-Wafāʾ al-Būzjānī, al-Zīj (107v–126r; incomplete, see GAS VI, p. 224); unknown, Kitāb al-takmila fī stikhrāj al-ʿadadayn al-mutaḥābbayn (129v; see GAS V, p. 402); Muḥammad b. Mūsā, Ruyʾat al-hilāl ʿalā raʾy Abī Jaʿfar Muḥammad b. Mūsā b. Shākir (142r; see GAS VI, p. 147); fragment of Kushyār b. Labbān, al-Zīj al-Bāligh (148v–149r; see Bagheri). Blank: 14bisv.

Bibl.: Edward Rehatsek, Catalogue Raisonné of the Arabic, Hindostani, Persian, and Turkish Mss. in the Mulla Firuz Library, Bombay: Managing Committee of the Mulla Firuz Library, 1873, pp. 43–44 (no. 86); GAS VFuat Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, Vol. V: Mathematik bis ca. 430 H., Leiden: Brill, 1974, pp. 401, 402, and 404; GAS VIFuat Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, Vol. VI: Astronomie bis ca. 430 H., Leiden: Brill, 1978, pp. 101, 147, 181, 224, 248–249, 283, and 288; Richard Lorch, ‘The “Meteoroscope” Attributed to Theon of Alexandria’, in I. International Congress on the History of Turkish-Islamic Science and Technology. İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, 14-18 September 1981. Proceedings, Istanbul: İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi. Bilim ve Teknoloji Tarihi Enstitüsü, 1981, vol. I, pp. 33–38; Mohammad Bagheri, ‘A Chapter from Kushyār’s Lost Zīj’, in Moustafa Mawaldi and Yasmin Shwash (eds), Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference for the History of Arabic Science. Sweida – Syria. April 20–22, 1993, Aleppo: Aleppo University Publications / Institute for the History of Arabic Science, 2007, pp. 471–476, here pp. 471–472 (with an image of two pages from the manuscript on p. 474). Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative: https://ismi.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/codex/202231.

58r–⁠72r

\58r\ العمل بذات الحلق لثاون الإسكندرانيّ اعلم أنّ مواضع عملك في ذات الحلق تسعة مواضع يريد أن يعمل فيها الأوّل دائرة وسط السماء من سمت الفلك في كلّ باب وموضعها في وسط غلظ الحلق ذات العلاقة لا يزول من باطنها ولا تحرّك عن مكانها— \72r\ فينبغي لمن أراد أن يعلم معرفة الطول بتقدير ال〈م〉سير أن يبدأ فبقدر ذلك حتّى يعلم كم مقدار الجزء هناك من من (كذا) مسير الأيّام والفراسخ والأميال ثمّ تعمل بعد ذلك فلا نخطّئ إن شاء اللّه.

= Theon of Alexandria, Tafsīr dhāt al-ḥalaq (unknown tr.) (C.5.1)

. — Title: al-ʿAmal bi-dhāt al-ḥalaq li-Thāwun al-ʾIskandarānī (incipit, 58r). — Additional Titles: Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-dhāt al-ḥalaq (colophon, 72r). — Index: author’s preface, 58r–v; 38 unnumbered sections, 58v–72r. — Undated scribal colophon (72r). No marginal corrections or annotations visible on the microfilm.