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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Najaf, Muʾassasa Kāshif al-Ghiṭāʾ al-ʿāmma, 9719⁢⁢⁢⁢⁢

[Black and white microfilm scans of the textblock.]
Acephalous single work: Arabic.  Date:

finished at noon (wasaṭ al-nahār) on Friday, 27 Rajab 1027/​20 July 1618 (183v).

Or.:

Mecca; copied by Aḥmad b. Muḥammad known as Qāḍī Ḥasan (183v), who transferred both the body text and the marginalia from a manuscript attributed to al-Birjandī (but not necessarily the author of C.1.44).

Prov.:

Cod.: paper, 183 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in the lower right corner of every tenth verso [but often omitted], as well as on f. 183v; a small leaf inserted after f. 12, not included in the folio count; no catchwords). A single naskh hand; partially dotted ductus. Book and section titles in a combination of (presumably) red and black; proposition numbers in red overlined abjad in the margins; aqūlu in red. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals in red or overlined in red; geometrical points in the text overlined in red or black. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or vice versa. Tables with red lines. Codex in acceptable condition; major water damage in the margins, sometimes extending into the text area, especially in the beginning and towards the end of the manuscript; some restorations in the margins in the beginning and end. Dimensions: 24×17 cm; 21 lines per page. Type II binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1r–183v); a fragment of a geometrical text with diagrams of inscribed circles (12bisr–v, by a different hand). Blank: none.

Bibl.: Dalīl makhṭūṭāt Muʾassasat Kāshif al-Ghiṭāʾ al-ʿāmma, vol. VI, Beirut: Sharikat Ṣabʿ li-l-ṭabāʿa wa-l-tajlīd, 2017 (1439 A.H.), part 1, p. 85; Excel file Dalīl al-makhṭūṭāt provided on the website of the library (consulted on 26 March 2025).

1r–⁠183v

 || \1r\أعان عليه الوقت وساعد التوفيق والبخت ونبهت صريحًا على ما هو خارج من أصل الكتاب — \183v\ فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائة 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, 1r (acephalous); Book I, 1r–20r; II, 20r–37r; III, 37r–49v; IV, 49v–64r; V, 64r–82r; VI, 82r–97r; VII, 97r–112v; VIII, 113r–129v; IX, 130r–148r; X, 148r–152v; XI, 153r–163v; XII, 163v–171v; XIII, 171v–183v. — Dated scribal colophon. Some marginal corrections. Extensive glosses, often said to be taken from al-Nīsābūrī (C.1.38) or min khaṭṭ al-Birjandī (C.1.44).