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Damascus, al-Maktaba al-waṭaniyya, 6752⁢⁢⁢

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Four parts of a single work: Arabic. Undated; unknown origin and unknown scribe. Prov.:

round stamp of the ‘Bibliothèque nationale al-Zahiryeh’ (1r); illegible small round library stamp (5v).

Cod.: paper, 237 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals at the top of rectos; catchwords). A single neat naskh hand; scarcely dotted ductus. Book titles in red, but especially in the Ptolemaic part mostly omitted; only very rare spaces reserved for other rubrication (e.g., 158v). Geometrical points in the text without rubrication or overlines. Large diagrams in black, drawn before the text was written and often extending into the margins. A single table (209r). Several notes introduced by fī nuskha in the first part (e.g., 21r, 24v, 32r–v); long annotations written vertically. Codex in bad condition; water stains at the top of most pages, particularly around f. 70; mold stains on ff. 14–23; upper outer corner of f. 142 restored with a piece of paper from another manuscript showing parts of an unidentified text; front cover loose and heavily damaged. Dimensions: 23×14 cm; 29 lines per page. Cardboard covers; doublures with geometric floral motifs. Type III binding.

Cont.: geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, music. — Index: Ibn Sīnā, Kitāb al-Shifāʾ, al-Riyāḍiyyāt, including: al-handasa (1v–84r); Ptolemaica (84v–185r); al-ārithmāṭīqī, 185r–203r; al-mūsīqā (203r–237r). Blank: presumably 237v.

Bibl.: Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ ʿĀyidī, Fihris makhṭūṭāt Dār al-kutub al-Ẓāhiriyya: al-riyāḍiyyāt, Damascus: Maṭbaʿa Khālid Ibn al-Walīd, 1973 (1393 A.H.), p. 69 (no. 99); for the other parts, see ibid., pp. 96–97 (no. 129, al-handasa)}.

84v–⁠185r	\84v\ وقد حان لنا أن نورد جوامع كتاب بطليموس الكبير المعمول فى المجسطي وعلم الهندسة (كذا) — \185r\ لكنّا من وراء أن يتحقّق ذلك برصد عاوله (كذا) نرجوا أن نبلغ في استقصائه ما لم يبلغ قبلنا بمعونة الله وحسن توفيقه. = Ibn Sīnā, Talkhīṣ al-Majisṭī (C.1.8) , with the extra chapter. — Title: al-Majisṭī li-Baṭlīmūs (1r). — Index: Book I, 84v–94v; II, 94v–104r; III, 104r–114v; IV/V/VI, 114v–149v; VII/VIII, 149v–153r; IX/X/XI, 153r–169r; XII, 169r–175r; 〈XIII〉, 175r–183r; extra chapter, 183r–185r. — No scribal colophon. Occasional marginal corrections. Some annotations. No glosses.

84v–⁠185r

\84v\ وقد حان لنا أن نورد جوامع كتاب بطليموس الكبير المعمول فى المجسطي وعلم الهندسة (كذا) — \185r\ لكنّا من وراء أن يتحقّق ذلك برصد عاوله (كذا) نرجوا أن نبلغ في استقصائه ما لم يبلغ قبلنا بمعونة الله وحسن توفيقه.

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

, with the extra chapter. — Title: al-Majisṭī li-Baṭlīmūs (1r). — Index: Book I, 84v–94v; II, 94v–104r; III, 104r–114v; IV/V/VI, 114v–149v; VII/VIII, 149v–153r; IX/X/XI, 153r–169r; XII, 169r–175r; 〈XIII〉, 175r–183r; extra chapter, 183r–185r. — No scribal colophon. Occasional marginal corrections. Some annotations. No glosses.