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Kolkata, The Asiatic Society, 1503 (I 790)

[Colour scanned images of ff. I–8r and the front cover.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

undated; c. 13^th/19^th c. (Hidayat Hosain et al.).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

stamp ‘A.S.B. [Asiatic Society of Bengal] Government Arabic and Persian Manuscripts’ (1r). Old shelfmarks: ‘I 790’ (1r) and ‘A/K/2’ (sticker on front cover). Multiple stamps ‘Asiatic Society’ (Ir, 1r, 1v).

Cod.: paper, I+25 ff. (foliated with Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals; catchwords). Black naskh; fully dotted ductus with final hamzas, no shaddas or vowel marks; \kafsp sometimes written with a small \kafsp at the top of the vertical stroke. Verbum numbers in red abjad (without kalima). Codex in very good condition; covers worn. Dimensions: c. 20¼×12¾ cm, written area: c. 14×7 cm; 11 lines per page. Quarter-bound cardboard covers with greenish marbled paper. Type III binding.

Cont.: astrology. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–25). Blank: Iv.

Bibl.: M. Hidayat Hosain, M. Mahfuz-ul Haq and M. Ishaque, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. II, Calcutta: Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1949, pp. 193–194 (no. 1503).

1v–⁠25	\1v\ كتاب الثمرة لبطليموس الحكيم تمام الكتب الأربعة التي الفهل (كذا) في الأحكام لسورس تلميذ〈ه〉. قال بطليموس قد قدّمنا لك يا سورس كتبًا فيما يؤثّره الكواكب في عالم التركيب المنفعة في تقدمة المعرفة. = Pseudo-Ptolemy, Kitāb al-Thamara (B.1.1) , version with 102 verba. — Title: Kitāb al-Thamara (‘Kitabuth-Thamrah’) (library slip). — Index: introduction, 1v–2r; verba 1–34, 2r–8r; ff. 8v–25 not seen. — No corrections or glosses.

1v–⁠25

\1v\ كتاب الثمرة لبطليموس الحكيم تمام الكتب الأربعة التي الفهل (كذا) في الأحكام لسورس تلميذ〈ه〉. قال بطليموس قد قدّمنا لك يا سورس كتبًا فيما يؤثّره الكواكب في عالم التركيب المنفعة في تقدمة المعرفة.

= Pseudo-Ptolemy, Kitāb al-Thamara (B.1.1)

, version with 102 verba. — Title: Kitāb al-Thamara (‘Kitabuth-Thamrah’) (library slip). — Index: introduction, 1v–2r; verba 1–34, 2r–8r; ff. 8v–25 not seen. — No corrections or glosses.