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.