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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Ayasofya 2720⁢⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]
Two parts of a single work: Arabic. Undated; unknown origin or copyist.  Prov.:

almond-shaped seal of sultan Bayezid II (r. 1481–1512) (1r, 228v). Statement of endowment of Sultan Mahmud I (r. 1730–1754), recorded by Aḥmad Shaykh Zāda, inspector of the endowments of the two Holy Sanctuaries, with the latter’s seal (IIr). Large round seal of endowment of Sultan Mahmud I (1r).

Cod.: paper, IV+228+IIa ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in the upper left area of rectos; quire marks, written out as ordinal numbers, at the top left of every tenth recto, starting anew with the second part; catchwords only at the beginning and end of the supplemented text parts). Main hand in black naskh; fully dotted ductus with full vocalisation. Ff. 94 and 155–157 supplemented by an irregular naskh hand, only partially dotted. Book and section headings in enlarged bold red. Geometrical points in the text overlined in black. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points; occasional ill-fitted spaces for diagrams (e.g., 193v, 194r); some reserved spaces left empty. No tables. Codex in acceptable condition; some ink corrosion, water damage, numerous stains, mould (e.g, ff. 95–106), restorations of the edges at beginning and end. Dimensions: 25.0×18.5 cm, written area 18.0×12.0 cm; 23 lines per page. Quarter-binding with black leather over red pasteboards. Type III binding.

Cont.: geometry, astronomy — Index: Ibn Sīnā, Kitāb al-Shifāʾ, al-Riyāḍiyyāt, including: title page (1r); al-handasa (1v–85v, referred to as Taḥrīr al-Uṣūl and Kitāb Uqlīdis on the title page) and Ptolemaica (86r–228v); a small sheet with two geometrical figures numbered as f. 82〈bis〉 but inserted at the end of the codex. Blank: Ir–IVr, 82〈bis〉v, 85bis (numbered ‘V’ in the manuscript), 160v–161r, Ia–Ib.

Bibl.: Defter-i Kütüphane-i Ayasofya, Istanbul: Mahmut Bey Matbaası, 1887 (1304 H.), p. 163. Yazma Eserler Veritabanı: https://portal.yek.gov.tr/works/detail/203043.

86r–⁠228v

\86v\ المقالة الأولى من تلخيص كتاب بطلميوس في التعاليم وهو كتاب المجسطي ممّا حرّره الشيخ الرئيس أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله بن سينا. قال وقد حان لنا أن نورد جوامع كتاب بطلميوس الكبير المعمول فى المجسطي وعلم الهيئة — \228v\ لكنّا من وراء أن يتحقّق ذلك برصد يحاوله نرجو أن نبلغ في استقصائه ما لم يبلغ من قبلنا بعون الله وحسن توفيقه.

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

, with the extra chapter. — Title: Kitāb al-Majisṭi li-l-shaykh Abī ʿAlī Ibn Sīnā (86r, apparently by the main scribe). — Alternative title: Kitāb al-Majisṭī li-Abī ʿAlī Ibn Sīnā (86r, in Maghribian style). — Index: title page, 86r; Book I, 86v–99r; II, 99r–111r; III, 111v–125r; IV, 125r–140r; V, 140r–161r; VI, 161v–176v; VII, 176v–178r; VIII, 178v–182v; IX/X/XI, 182v–215r; XII, 215v–224r; XIII, 224r–226r (incomplete); extra chapter, 226r–228v. Multiple folios missing after f. 225. — No scribal colophon. Marginal corrections. No glosses.