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Rampur, Raza Library, Arabic 3482

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Four parts of a single work: Arabic. Date:

no colophons, but this volume is part of a five-volume set (MSS 3479–3483, all in the same hand) covering the entire Kitāb al-Shifāʾ, and some of the other volumes are dated 1293/1876.

Or.:

unknown; all volumes of the set were copied by the same hand of ʿIẓẓat ʿAlī Gorakhpūrī.

Prov.:

Old shelfmarks: ‘ḥikmat ʿarabī’, ‘number 120’ (library label). ‘S.T. 13052’ (pastedown). Accession no. 7905 M (1r).

Cod.: paper, 151 ff. (foliated with pencil at the centre top just above the framed text area; catchwords). A single, somewhat sloppy black nastaʿlīq hand; mostly dotted ductus, occasional hamzas and shaddas. First and second parts without any rubrication; numerous spaces reserved for rubrication and diagrams in the first part; section titles overlined, no diagrams and only occasional reserved spaces in the second, Ptolemaic part. Book titles in the third and fourth parts in red, numerous red overlines in the third part; tables with red lines in the third part (also in the margins), large reserved spaces in the fourth part. Extensive glosses only in the third part. All pages framed with red, blue and red lines. Codex in good condition; significant water damage in the upper outer corners, partially causing large dark-brown stains and bleeding of the colours of the frame, but not affecting the readability; some damage by insects, repaired with transparent tape; all inner margins restored. Dimensions: 32.4×24.6 cm; 23 lines per page. Modern half-bound red and light-blue leather covers. Type II binding.

Cont.: geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, music. — Index: Ibn Sīnā, Kitāb al-Shifāʾ, al-Riyāḍiyyāt, including: last four lines of the preceding part, crossed out in red (1r); al-handasa (1r–38r); Ptolemaica (38v–116r); al-ārithmāṭīqī (116r–129v); al-mūsīqā (129v–151v). Blank: 116v (except for the frame and indications that the page is empty).

Bibl.: Imtiyāz ʿAlī ʿArshī, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in Rampur Raza Library, Vol. IV: Sufism, Holy Scriptures, Logic & Philosophy, Rampur: Raza Library, 1971, pp. 442/3–444/5.

38v–⁠116r	\38v\ [title of Book I] قال وقد حان لنا أن نورد جوامع كتاب لبطلميوس الكبير المعمول في المجسطي وعلم الهيئة — \116r\ وأعلم أنّ الرصد الحديث أخرج مقادير الخطوط الواصليّة ونسب أقطار أفلاك التداوير مخالفيّة بشيء يسير لما أوجبه بطلميوس لكنّا من وراء أن يتحقّق ذلك برصد نحاوله نرجوا أن نبلغ في استقصائه ما لم يبلغ قبلنا بعون اللّه وحسن توفيقه. = Ibn Sīnā, Talkhīṣ al-Majisṭī (C.1.8) , with the extra chapter. — Title: Talkhīṣ Kitāb li-Baṭlamyūs fī l-taʿālīm wa-huwa Kitāb al-Majisṭī (38v, title of Book I). Index: Book I, 38v–45v; II, 45v–52r; III, 52r–60r; IV, 60r–68v; V, 68v–79r; VI, 79r–87v; VII, 87v–89v; 〈VIII〉, 89v–90v; IX/X/XI, 90v–102r; XII, 102r –106v; XIII, 106v–113v; extra chapter, 114r–116r. The last lines of the extra chapter are preceded by an empty page. — No scribal colophon. Occasional marginal corrections, some separately framed. No glosses.

38v–⁠116r

\38v\ [title of Book I] قال وقد حان لنا أن نورد جوامع كتاب لبطلميوس الكبير المعمول في المجسطي وعلم الهيئة — \116r\ وأعلم أنّ الرصد الحديث أخرج مقادير الخطوط الواصليّة ونسب أقطار أفلاك التداوير مخالفيّة بشيء يسير لما أوجبه بطلميوس لكنّا من وراء أن يتحقّق ذلك برصد نحاوله نرجوا أن نبلغ في استقصائه ما لم يبلغ قبلنا بعون اللّه وحسن توفيقه.

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

, with the extra chapter. — Title: Talkhīṣ Kitāb li-Baṭlamyūs fī l-taʿālīm wa-huwa Kitāb al-Majisṭī (38v, title of Book I). Index: Book I, 38v–45v; II, 45v–52r; III, 52r–60r; IV, 60r–68v; V, 68v–79r; VI, 79r–87v; VII, 87v–89v; 〈VIII〉, 89v–90v; IX/X/XI, 90v–102r; XII, 102r –106v; XIII, 106v–113v; extra chapter, 114r–116r. The last lines of the extra chapter are preceded by an empty page. — No scribal colophon. Occasional marginal corrections, some separately framed. No glosses.