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Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Or. 556

Collection of six works: Arabic. Date:

treatise 3 completed on 13 Jumādā l-thāniya 980/21 October 1572 (colophon, 39v); other treatises undated.

Or.:

unknown, possibly partially from Egypt based on the dated ownership statement and the fāʾida on f. 24r; treatise 3 copied by Sālim al-Azharī (colophon, 39v).

Prov.:

a note of ownership, stating that the first part of the manuscript was bought by Shimʿūn al-mutakātib b. Jirjīs al-Ṣāliḥ b. li-Sayyid b. Bū l-Ḥasan on the sūq of Cairo on 25 Ayyār 1598 Alexander/25 May 1287, said to correspond to 11 Rabīʿ al-ākhir 686 (1r). A partially illegible statement of ownership by a certain … b. Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl … (1r); the name ʿal-Manṣūrīʾ, possibly indicating ownership (1r). From the legacy of the German-born Dutch diplomat in Ottoman Istanbul Levinus Warner (d. 1665) to Leiden University (2r, glued-in printed slip of paper); a heavily damaged black wax seal, very likely of Warner (1r). Library stamp ‘ACAD.LVGD’ (79v). Old shelfmark: ‘N. 556’ (79v), ‘Ar. 556’ (Witkam). A separate modern sheet of paper, containing a transcription of parts of ff. 41v–42r in the hand of a western scholar, possibly Eilhard Wiedemann (cf. his translation in Oskar Schirmer, ‘Studien zur Astronomie der Araber’, Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-Medizinischen Sozietät zu Erlangen 58 (1926), pp. 33–88, here pp. 80–85).

Cod.: four different types of paper (brownish, 1r–29v; yellowish-white 30–39v; greyish 40r–67v; whitish, 68r–79v), I+79 ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals; first ten folios of the Ptolemaic work additionally numbered with Hindu-Arabic numerals starting from ‘1’; a single possible quire mark ‘thānī’ on f. 70r; catchwords only in treatise 3 and on f. 60v). This is a composite manuscript consisting of four separate original parts. Five different hands. First hand (1r–29v): a clearly readable large naskh; 15 lines per page. Second hand (30v–39v): a neat naskh; 35 lines per page. Third hand (40v–67v, including the Ptolemaic work): a neat naskh; mostly dotted ductus, no vowel marks or hamzas, rare shaddas, occasional distinctive ligature of alif and lām; diagram lines and letters in black; abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals in the main text overlined; 21 lines per page. Fourth hand (68v–79v): a sloppy naskh; 31 or 32 lines per page within a red rule-border. Codex in acceptable condition; lower two thirds of f. 23 cut off; frequent stains and smudges in the first part, not affecting the readability; few pages reinforced with small slips of paper in the margins (e.g., 7r, 24v, 28r); ink corrosion in the third part, including the Ptolemaic work, and repaired holes on f. 40 hindering the readability. Dimensions: not provided. Heavily rubbed cover of blackish leather, decorated with borders, a blind-tooled mandorla on the upper cover, a smaller one on the lower cover, and a lobed circular motif on the flap; doublures of marbled paper. Type II binding.

Cont.: astronomy, mathematics. — Index: 1] Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn (c. 580/1184), Risāla fī l-Barkar al-tāmm wa-kayfiyyat al-takhṭīṭ bi-hi (1v–23r, with title page on f. 1r; dedicated to Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Abū l-Muẓaffar Yūsuf b. Ayyūb, first Ayyubid sultan of Egypt and Syria, r. 1174–1193); 1a] a fāʾida giving the Coptic dates corresponding to Syrian month beginnings (24r, possibly in the hand of the owner Shimʿūn al-mutakātib); 2] Abū l-Ṣalt Umayya al-Andalusī (d. 529/1134), Risāla fī l-ʿAmal bi-l-asṭurlāb (24v–29v, end missing); 3] Muḥyī l-Dīn al-Maghribī, Kitāb al-Ukar li-Thāʾudūsiyūs (30v-39v); 4] Ptolemaica (40r–63v); 5] Abū l-Ṣalt Umayya al-Andalusī, treatise on the meanings of the word nuqṭa (64r–67v); 6] ʿAlī b. Aḥmad al-Nasawī, al-Muqniʿ fī l-ḥisāb al-hindī (68v–79v). Blank: 23v, 30r, 68r.

Bibl.: Franz Woepcke, ‘Memoire sur la propagation des chiffres indiens’, Journal asiatique Sixième serie 1 (1863), pp. 27–79, 234–294, and 442–529, here pp. 490–500, on treatise‍ 6; Pieter de Jong and Michael Jan de Goeje, Catalogus Codicum Orientalium. Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno Batavae, vol. III, Leiden: Brill, 1865, pp. 48–49 (no. dcccclxxxv), 67–69 (no. mxxi), 70 (no. mxxiv), 89–93 (no. mlx, with the Arabic text of the introduction), 97 (no. mlxxii), and 99 (no. mlxxvi); Petrus Voorhoeve, Handlist of Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the University of Leiden and Other Collections in the Netherlands, Leiden: Universiteitsbibliotheek, 1957, pp. 140, 240, 291, 293, 385, and 432; Abolghasem Ghorbani, Nasavī nāmeh, Tehran: Iranian Culture Foundation, 1972 (1351 H.S.), pp. 121–145, appendix to Part 3 (facsimile of treatise 6); Jan Just Witkam, Inventory of the Oriental Manuscripts of the Library of the University of Leiden, vol. I: Manuscripts Or. 1 – Or. 1000, Leiden: Ter Lugt Press, 2007, p. 238. — Leiden University Libraries Digital Collections: http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3669016. Collections.

40v–⁠63v	\40v\ {...} الفعّال لما يريد خالق الأفلاك الدائرة والنجوم السائرة العالم بسرائر الأمور وما يخفي الصدور — \63v\ ومن بعد أن وفينا بما وعدنا في صدر المقالة من الفصول نختم الفصل الثالث بهذا الموضع والمقالة بهذا الفصل. [formulae] = Abū l-Ḥasan al-Nasawī, al-Ishbāʿ fī sharḥ al-shakl al-qaṭṭāʿ (C.1.12) . — Title: al-Ishbāʿ fī sharḥ al-shakl al-qaṭṭāʿ (41r:10). — Alternative title: Kitāb al-Ishbāʿ fī sharḥ al-shakl al-qaṭṭāʿ (40r). — Index: title page (in a different hand), 40r; preface, 40v–41r; faṣl 1, 41r–52v; faṣl 2, 52v–58r; faṣl 3, 58r–63v. — No scribal colophon. Corrections in the hand of the scribe sometimes indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Few marginal corrections and annotations in at least three different hands (e.g., 41r, 46r, 55r).

40v–⁠63v

\40v\ {...} الفعّال لما يريد خالق الأفلاك الدائرة والنجوم السائرة العالم بسرائر الأمور وما يخفي الصدور — \63v\ ومن بعد أن وفينا بما وعدنا في صدر المقالة من الفصول نختم الفصل الثالث بهذا الموضع والمقالة بهذا الفصل. [formulae]

= Abū l-Ḥasan al-Nasawī, al-Ishbāʿ fī sharḥ al-shakl al-qaṭṭāʿ (C.1.12)

. — Title: al-Ishbāʿ fī sharḥ al-shakl al-qaṭṭāʿ (41r:10). — Alternative title: Kitāb al-Ishbāʿ fī sharḥ al-shakl al-qaṭṭāʿ (40r). — Index: title page (in a different hand), 40r; preface, 40v–41r; faṣl 1, 41r–52v; faṣl 2, 52v–58r; faṣl 3, 58r–63v. — No scribal colophon. Corrections in the hand of the scribe sometimes indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Few marginal corrections and annotations in at least three different hands (e.g., 41r, 46r, 55r).