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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Princeton, University Library, Garrett 3219 Y⁢⁢

[Black and white microfilm scans of the textblock and some colour photographs.]
Incomplete single work: Arabic.  Date:

undated; 12th/18th c. (Mach).

  Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

  Prov.:

undated statement of ownership by al-Sayyid Muṣṭafā ‘the teacher at the … school’ (مدرسة انجه كوزل), with his oval seal (1r). An erased ownership statement with an illegible oval seal (1r); an erased short note (1r). Ex-libris of the Yahuda collection of the current library mentioning ‘Robert Garrett 〈of the class of 18〉97’ as the donor (front doublure); Robert S. Garrett (1875–1961) was an US-American athlete, banker and manuscript collector who donated his collection to the Princeton University Library in 1942. A former shelfmark (?) in Arabic: ‘2/231 ḥ’ (sticker on front doublure).

Cod.: paper, 40 ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil; a foliation with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pen, skipping the empty double-page 9v–10r and the last folio; catchwords added after the codex became disordered). A single nastaʿlīq hand; almost fully dotted ductus, some vowel marks and hamzas, few shaddas. Book headings mostly in bold thuluth; most chapter beginnings in red and introduced by bold overlined abjad numerals; most propositions numbered in the margins with red overlined abjad numerals. Abjad numerals and Persian forms of Hindu Arabic numerals in red and/or overlined in red. Diagrams in Book III mostly incomplete or missing. Tables with red lines, one incomplete (26r). Codex seemingly in very good condition; few ink stains (21r, 28v); minor damage to the first and last folios. Dimensions: 22.3×16.6 cm, written area: 16.5×7.0 cm; 27 lines per page. Type II binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–39v). Blank: 9v–10r, 40r and presumably 40v.

Bibl.: Rudolf Mach, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section) in the Garrett Collection, Princeton University Library, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977, p. 420 (no. 4870); 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, pp. 286–287 (no. 71). — PUL Catalog: https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9962636003506421.

1v–⁠39v

\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \39v\ وجنوبيّ ويسامتها الشمس مرّتين وإلى ذات ظلّ واحد شماليّ أبدًا فالقسم الأوّل يشتمل على خمس دوائر بعد معدّل النهار وهي هذه.

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

. Title: Taḥrīrāt Majisṭī (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–9r, 30r–37r (incomplete); II, 37r–39v, 11r–12v, 17r–v, 13r–16v, 18r–19v; III, 19v–20v, 29r–v, 21r–27v; IV, 27v–28v (incomplete). The last part included in the codex is the beginning of section IV.2 on f. 28v. — No authorial or scribal colophons. Some marginal annotations in the hand of the scribe using, among others, the sigla Samarqandī or Shams al-Dīn (e.g., 2r, 16r, 30r) and Niẓām al-Dīn (e.g., 9r). Two diagrams of instruments from al-Nīsābūrī’s Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) on the otherwise blank f. 10v.