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Beirut, Université Saint-Joseph, 374⁢⁢⁢

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Four parts of a single work: Arabic. Date:

third part finished on 24 Shubāt (February) 1890 (p. 304).

Or.:

unknown; copied by ʿAbd Khalīl Ibrahīm Karm (p. 304).

Prov.:

a western hand, presumably Cheikho’s, indicates in the margins the corresponding folio numbers of the exemplar, MS London, British Library, IO Islamic 1811, copied in India in 1152/1739-40; the astronomical part of this codex is said to have been copied from a manuscript written in 642/1244-5 by ʿAbd al-Khayyūm b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī Fārisī and to have been collated against a manuscript finished in Mosul in 652/1254-5 (cf. Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, London: Stephen Austin and Sons, 1877, p. 132 (no. 477), and see also pp. 100 and 356 in the present manuscript). Original shelfmark: ‘752’ (Cheikho).

Cod.: paper, 356+IV pp. (paginated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil at the centre top, p. 1 being a recto [up to p. 160 between parentheses, from p. 161 onwards only on rectos]; one unnumbered empty leaf after p. 288 and two after p. 304; catchwords). A small naskh hand; partially dotted ductus. Book titles rubricated and enlarged; final sentence of books (‘tammat al-maqālā…’) often bold and centred; section titles in the Ptolemaic part overlined. Abjad numerals and geometrical points in the text not overlined. Very neatly drawn diagrams; no tables. Calligraphic basmala at the beginning of the fourth part. Codex in excellent condition. Dimensions: 16×10 cm; 25 lines per page. Quarter-bound marbled covers. Type III binding.

Cont.: geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, music. — Index: Ibn Sīnā, Kitāb al-Shifāʾ, al-Riyāḍiyyāt, including: al-handasa (pp. 1–100); Ptolemaica (pp. 101–274); al-ārithmāṭīqī (pp. 274–304); al-mūsīqā (pp. 305–356); a note on the preceding part by the patron of the India Office exemplar, Muḥammad Ḥusaynī (p. 356). Blank: pp. 288^bis–^ter and 304^bis–^quinquies.

Bibl.: Louis Cheikho, ‘Catalogue raisonné des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque orientale. IV. Philosophie et écriture sainte’, Mélanges de l’Université Saint-Joseph 10 (1925), pp. 105–179, here p. 123 [p. 227].

pp. 101–⁠274	\p. 101\ وقد حان لنا أن نورد جوامع كتاب بطليموس الكبير المعمول فى المجسطي وعلم الهيئة — \p. 274\ لكنّا من وراء أن نتحقّق ذلك برصد نحاوله نرجو أن نبلغ في استقصائه من فنّ الهيئة من كتاب الشقاء للشيخ الرئيس أبي علي حسين بن عبد الله بن سينا البخاري وكان في الأصل المنقول عنه. تمّ الدفتر التاسع وهو ثاني الرياضيّات بعون الله مفيض الخيرات ونزل البركات. = Ibn Sīnā, Talkhīṣ al-Majisṭī (C.1.8) , with the extra chapter. — Title: none. — Index: Book I, pp. 101–120; II, pp. 120–135; III, pp. 135–155; IV, pp. 155–175; V, pp. 175–199; VI, pp. 199–217; VII, pp. 217–219; VIII, pp. 219–223; IX〈/X/XI〉, pp. 223–247; XII, pp. 247–256; XIII, pp. 256–270; extra chapter, pp. 270–274. The book and section titles are generally written in red in the margins and are not included in the text. — Partial colophon of the exemplar of the India Office manuscript; no scribal colophon. Only very few marginal corrections. No glosses.

pp. 101–⁠274

\p. 101\ وقد حان لنا أن نورد جوامع كتاب بطليموس الكبير المعمول فى المجسطي وعلم الهيئة — \p. 274\ لكنّا من وراء أن نتحقّق ذلك برصد نحاوله نرجو أن نبلغ في استقصائه من فنّ الهيئة من كتاب الشقاء للشيخ الرئيس أبي علي حسين بن عبد الله بن سينا البخاري وكان في الأصل المنقول عنه. تمّ الدفتر التاسع وهو ثاني الرياضيّات بعون الله مفيض الخيرات ونزل البركات.

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

, with the extra chapter. — Title: none. — Index: Book I, pp. 101–120; II, pp. 120–135; III, pp. 135–155; IV, pp. 155–175; V, pp. 175–199; VI, pp. 199–217; VII, pp. 217–219; VIII, pp. 219–223; IX〈/X/XI〉, pp. 223–247; XII, pp. 247–256; XIII, pp. 256–270; extra chapter, pp. 270–274. The book and section titles are generally written in red in the margins and are not included in the text. — Partial colophon of the exemplar of the India Office manuscript; no scribal colophon. Only very few marginal corrections. No glosses.