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Tunis, Dār al-kutub al-waṭaniyya, 8804⁢

[Black-and-white microfilm scans of the textblock.]

Collection of ten works: Arabic. Date:

treatise 1 completed four and a half hours into the night of Sunday, 12 Ramaḍān 1144/‌9 March 1732 (19r); treatise 3 completed on the first Tuesday of Rajab of an unspecified year (58r); treatise 8 completed on Tuesday, 20 Jumādā l-ākhira 876/‌4 December 1471 (90v); treatise 10 finished in 719/1319-20 (Ḥamāda, the first digit is not visible on the scans); remaining treatises undated.

Or.:

unknown; treatise 1 copied by Muḥammad b. Muṣṭafā b. Muṣṭafā b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Nawbakht al-Tūnisī al-Ḥanafī; treatise 7 copied by Abū l-Ḥasan al-Azharī al-Shāfiʿī; treatise 8 copied by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ḥusayn b. Ibr〈ā〉hīm b. Ḥusayn al-ʿAbbāsī known as al-Kurdī.

Prov.:

a statement according to which the manuscript was owned by the Tunisian scholar Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad Bayram al-Rābiʿ (d. 1861) and purchased in 1285/1868-9 (?) by Khayr al-Dīn Paša, Tunisian-Ottoman politician and Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1890) (1r). An endowment statement by Khayr al-Dīn Paša in favour of the Zaytūna Mosque in Tunis, dated Rajab 1292/1875-6 (1r). A trimmed ownership statement by Khayr (?) al-Dīn (?) … b. Turka al-M… ʿAbd al-Qādir al-… (21r).

Cod.: paper, I+117 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals, only occasionally visible on the scans; catchwords, except in treatise 10). Nine hands for ten works, treatises 5 and 6 having been copied by the same hand. Hand copying treatises 5 and 6 (including the Ptolemaic work): regular maghribī, fully dotted with occasional vowels and tanwīns; beginning of syntactical units overlined, presumably in red; slightly oversized title and colophon. Remainder of the manuscript: regular maghribī (treatises 1, 3, and 4) or mostly sloppy naskh (treatises 2, 7, 8, 9, and 10). Neat sketches of the shapes of various comets (62v). Codex seemingly in good condition. Dimensions: 175×130 mm; lines per page varying between 17 and 26, with 18 lines per page in the Ptolemaic work.

Cont.: law, ḥadīth, grammar, astrology, and onomancy. — Index (building on Ḥamāda): table of contents (Ir); 1) Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Bilāl, R. fī l-Kalām ʿalā Āyat al-Wuḍūʾ (1r–19r, copied from the autograph); 2) Yaḥyā b. Muḥammad al-Aqṣarāʾī, a work on uṣūl al-dīn (21r–49v); 3) ʿAbd Allāh b. Yūsuf b. Hishām al-Anṣārī, Mūqid al-adhhān wa-mūqiẓ al-wasnān (50v–58r); 4) Pseudo-Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq, Maqāla fī Dhawāt al-Dhawāʾib (59v–62v); 5) Ptolemaica (63r–64v); 6) a chapter on onomancy beginning idhā aradta an taʿrifa kam mudda min tawallī wilāya fa-ḥsub ism man tawallā l-wilāya (65r); a short unclear note in naskh script (65v); 7) Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Maḥallī, Sharḥ al-Waraqāt li-l-Juwaynī (66r–75r); 8) ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Muḥammad al-Shīrāzī, Imtiḥān al-sunnī min al-badʿī (76r–90v); 9) Taqyīd ʿalā riwāyat musnad al-imām Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal (91v–97v); 10) Ibn Ḥazm, Mulakhkhaṣ Kitāb Ibṭāl al-qiyās wa-l-raʾy wa-l-istiḥsān wa-l-taqlīd wa-al-taʿlīl (98r–117r). Blank: presumably Iv, 19v–20r, 58v–59r, 117v (none included in the scans).

Bibl.: Jamāl b. Ḥamāda, Al-Fihris al-ʿāmm li-l-makhṭūṭāt. Al-juz’ al-tāsiʿ, al-qism al-thānī, Tunis: Dār al-kutub al-waṭaniyya, 2008, pp. 272–276.

63r–⁠64v	\63r\ ذكر ذوات الذوائب من الكواكب ودلائل ظهورها وما يحدث في العالم بظهورها. قال بطليموس الحكيم إنّها تسعة تسيّر تحت شعاع الشمس لا يظهر منها كوكب إلّا لحادث يحدث في العالم بحول الله وقوّته وذلك على وجه التجربة وهي السفّود والخابية والخشبة والفارس والحربة والصباح والفضّة والورديّ والأسود — \64v\ وأمّا الأسود فهو كوكب أدكن من مزاج زحل تعلوه صفرة سواد شعاعه في استنارة فإذا ظهر دلّ على وقوع الموت الذريع في ذلك الإقليم والله سبحانه وتعالى أعلم. = Pseudo-Ptolemy, Maqāla fī Dhawāt al-dhawāʾib (B.3.1) . — Title: Dhikr dhawāt al-dhawāʾib min al-kawākib wa-dalāʾil ẓuhūri-hā wa-mā yaḥduthu fī l-ʿālam bi-ẓuhūri-hā (63r). — Index: introduction, 63r; a chapter on the appearance of comets in each zodiacal sign, 63r–63v; descriptions of nine comets, 63v–64v. — Undated scribal colophon. No marginalia or corrections.

63r–⁠64v

\63r\ ذكر ذوات الذوائب من الكواكب ودلائل ظهورها وما يحدث في العالم بظهورها. قال بطليموس الحكيم إنّها تسعة تسيّر تحت شعاع الشمس لا يظهر منها كوكب إلّا لحادث يحدث في العالم بحول الله وقوّته وذلك على وجه التجربة وهي السفّود والخابية والخشبة والفارس والحربة والصباح والفضّة والورديّ والأسود — \64v\ وأمّا الأسود فهو كوكب أدكن من مزاج زحل تعلوه صفرة سواد شعاعه في استنارة فإذا ظهر دلّ على وقوع الموت الذريع في ذلك الإقليم والله سبحانه وتعالى أعلم.

= Pseudo-Ptolemy, Maqāla fī Dhawāt al-dhawāʾib (B.3.1)

. — Title: Dhikr dhawāt al-dhawāʾib min al-kawākib wa-dalāʾil ẓuhūri-hā wa-mā yaḥduthu fī l-ʿālam bi-ẓuhūri-hā (63r). — Index: introduction, 63r; a chapter on the appearance of comets in each zodiacal sign, 63r–63v; descriptions of nine comets, 63v–64v. — Undated scribal colophon. No marginalia or corrections.