PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Baku, Mahammad Fuzuli ad. Elyazmalar Institutu, M-428⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]
Incomplete single work: Arabic.  Date:

finished on 12 Muḥarram 1067/​31 October 1656 (104r).

Or.:

unknown; copied by Muḥammad nicknamed Riḍā (104r).

Prov.:

an oval seal ‘ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz …’ (1v). Cyrillic library stamps with inventory number ‘31574’ (1r, 104v).

Cod.: paper, 104 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pen up to f. 24 and in Arabic-European numerals in pencil from f. 25 onwards; catchwords). A single cursive naskh hand; partially dotted ductus. Sparse use of red ink. Diagrams and tables. Manuscript in acceptable condition; heavy water damage on the edges of all folios, cover likewise damaged. Vinaceous leather covers with flap. Type II binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–104r). Blank: none.

Bibl.: MAMSGalina P. Matvievskaya and Boris A. Rozenfeld, Matematiki i astronomy musul′manskogo srednevekov′ya i ikh trudy (VIII-XVII vv.), 3 vols, Moscow: Nauka, 1983, vol. II, p. 400 (no. 368, A1); LAMTMª José Parra, ‘A List of Arabic Manuscripts of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī’, Suhayl 16–17 (2018–2019), pp. 251–322, p. 259 (no. 14).

1v–⁠104r

\1v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \104r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول: وإذ وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته، ولأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصليًّا على جميع أوليائه، خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه، والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.

= Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18)

. — Title: none. — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–18v; II, 18v–25r; III, 25r–35r; IV, 35v–47r; V, 47r–56r; VI, 56r–61v (incomplete); VII, 61v–63v (incomplete); VIII, missing; IX, 64r–76v (beginning missing); X, 76v–80v; XI, 80v–89r; XII, 89r–94v; XIII, 94v–104r. — Dated scribal colophon. Some annotations; substantial glosses, especially from Book III onwards.