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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.

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\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ قد وفّقني اللّه تعالى لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته 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 (183v). Some marginal corrections. Extensive glosses, often said to be taken from al-Nīsābūrī (C.1.38) or min khaṭṭ al-Birjandī (C.1.42).