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Oxford, Bodleian Library, Pococke 112⁢

First half of a single work: Arabic. Date:

finished ‘during the first ten days’ (fī l-ʿashar al-awwal) of Ṣafar 604/‌late August-early September 1207 (colophon, 181v).

Or.:

unknown; unknown copyist.

Prov.:

owner names: Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn (who also owned MS Pococke 111), Yaḥyā b. al-Lubūdī (the thirteenth-century mathematician and astronomer from Aleppo who purchased MS Oxford, Bodleian, Arch. Seld. A. 32 in Damascus in 633/1235-6), and al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī al-mutaṭabbib (4r). This is vol. 21 of a complete copy of Ibn Sīnā’s Kitāb al-Shifāʾ in 24 volumes, of which the Pococke collection has sixteen; the second half of the Talkhīṣ al-Majisṭī, by the same hand, is included in MS Oxford, Bodleian, Pococke 111⁢. A small slip of paper with a hardly legible Latin inscription ‘Ptolemaei Almagestum in arabico versum …’ is glued on the title page (3r). Small round stamps of the ‘Bibliotheca Bodleiana’ (3r, 4v). The collection of the Orientalist and priest Edward Pococke (1604–1691) was purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1692.

Cod.: paper, 182 ff. (foliated with small Arabic-European numerals; quire signatures of the form ‘… of 〈vol.〉 21 of the Shifāʾ’ with the numbers written in abjad on every eighth or tenth folio [e.g., 67r, 107r], mostly trimmed; no catchwords). A very large and clear naskh hand. Fully dotted ductus, frequent vowels (including tanwīns) and hamzas, but only occasional shaddas. Abjad notation overlined. No rubrication can be discerned on the microfilm. Numerous nicely drawn diagrams; occasional spaces left open between sections of the text. A circular centre-piece with lobes and points, filled by intersecting geometrical shapes and floresque motifs (4r), similar to, but not the same as the one in MS Pococke 111. Codex in good condition; occasional stains, not hindering the reading; some water damage in the bottom margins of ff. 90–130. Dimensions: not provided; 10 lines per page. Flyleaves, covers, and binding not assessable.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (3r–182r). A note on the title page mentions the four fanns of the book on mathematics in the order geometry (?, illegible), Almagest, arithmetic, and music. Blank: 2v, 87r, and presumably 1r–2r and 182v.

Bibl.: Joannes Uri, Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ codicum manuscriptorum orientalium, videlicet Hebraicorum, Chaldaicorum, Syriacorum, Aethiopicorum, Arabicorum, Persicorum, Turcicorum, Copticorumque catalogus. Pars prima, Oxford: Clarendon, 1787, p. 119 (no. cccclxxii); Yaḥyā Mahdawī, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi muṣannafāt-i Ibn-i Sīnā, Tehran: Dānishgāh-yi Tihrān, 1954, p. 170. — Fihrist: https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/manuscript_1358.

3r–⁠181v	\4v\ وقد حان لنا أن نورد جوامع كتاب بطلميوس الكبير المعمول فى المجسطي — \181v\ وعند أبرخس المدّة مائة وستّة وسبعون يومًا وساعة وثلث استوائيّة والأجزاء قسح لج فبهذا السبب ما وقع الغلـ{ـط له}. = Ibn Sīnā, Talkhīṣ al-Majisṭī (C.1.8) , Books I–IV. — Title: … min al-Majisṭī (title page, 3r). — Index: title page, 3r; Book I, 4v–43r; II, 43v–86v; III: 87v–164r, IV: 164v–181v. — Scribal colophon (181v–182r). Frequent corrections in the margins indicated with siglum ṣḥ. A simple collation note (181v). Beginning of Book I indicated in the margin by a different hand (4v). No glosses.

3r–⁠181v

\4v\ وقد حان لنا أن نورد جوامع كتاب بطلميوس الكبير المعمول فى المجسطي — \181v\ وعند أبرخس المدّة مائة وستّة وسبعون يومًا وساعة وثلث استوائيّة والأجزاء قسح لج فبهذا السبب ما وقع الغلـ{ـط له}.

= Ibn Sīnā, Talkhīṣ al-Majisṭī (C.1.8)

, Books I–IV. — Title: … min al-Majisṭī (title page, 3r). — Index: title page, 3r; Book I, 4v–43r; II, 43v–86v; III: 87v–164r, IV: 164v–181v. — Scribal colophon (181v–182r). Frequent corrections in the margins indicated with siglum ṣḥ. A simple collation note (181v). Beginning of Book I indicated in the margin by a different hand (4v). No glosses.