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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Qom, Markaz-i Iḥyāʾ-i Mīrāth-i Islāmī, 9476⁢⁢⁢⁢

[Black-and-white microfilm scans of the textblock.]
Collection of a main work and three short appendices: Arabic.  Date:

unknown, probably 7th/13th c.; the explicit is followed by the authorial colophon, dated 5 Shawwal 644/​13 February 1247 (169r).

Or.:

unknown; copied by Ḥusayn b. Yaḥyā al-Fīrūzābādī (note next to the authorial colophon, 169r).

Prov.:

an undated note by Muḥammad b. Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Ḥamadānī stating that the manuscript is an autograph and that it was transferred to him from Shaykh Muḥammad Ḥusayn after having belonged to Sayyid Baḥr al-ʿUlūm al-Najafī; an octagonal seal under this note (1r). Another brief note indicating that the manuscript is an autograph (2r). A note dated 3 Ramaḍān 945/​23 January 1539 in Tabriz, with a round seal (2r). An extensive waqf statement in Persian dated Muḥarram 1288/​March-April 1871, accompanied by a big square seal of endowment with a lobed arch on top (1v, the seal also on ff. 32v and 36r). A small round seal on f. 2r and a square one on f. 2v, both illegible.

Cod.: paper, 175 ff. (unfoliated; quire numbers in the hand of the scribe, written out as ordinal numbers just within the upper left corner of the frame mostly on every eighth recto; no catchwords). A single small naskh hand; mostly dotted ductus, no shaddas, occasional hamzas. Book headings in thuluth; section titles in red, section numbers in overlined bold black abjad; propositions numbered with (presumably) red overlined abjad numerals in the margins. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals mostly in red and with overlines. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or the other way around. Tables with red lines; a rosette (91v). Text area framed (probably in gold). Codex in very good condition, hardly any damage. Dimensions: unknown; 26 lines per page. Type III binding, Persian safīna.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (2v–169r); Ptolemaica (170r–172v); Ptolemaica (173r–174v); Ptolemaica (174v–175r). Blank: presumably 169v and 175v (omitted from the scans).

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).

2v–⁠169r

\2v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \169r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.

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

. — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (2r). — Index: preface, 2v–3r; Book I, 3r–20v; II, 21r–36r; III, 36r–47v; IV, 47v–62v; V, 62v–78v; VI, 78v–91v; VII, 92r–104v; VIII, 104v–118v; IX, 118v–137r; X, 137r–141r; XI, 141r–151v; XII, 151v–158r; XIII, 158r–169r. — Dated authorial colophon; undated scribal colophon, set off from the explicit in larger script. Minor marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe, mostly indicated by siglum ṣḥ. The manuscript includes numerous glosses generally attributed to al-Ṭūsī himself, often indicated by ḥāshiya, in the hand of the scribe. Notes in Syriac on f. 24r, also found in MS Tehran, Sipahsālār, 592; some marginal annotations in a nastaʿlīq hand refering to al-Birjandī’s Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.44) (e.g., 14v, 20v).

170r–⁠172v

\170r\ نريد أن نثبت اختلافات وقوع الخطوط في الأشكال التي تعرف منها أوضاع مراكز أفلاك عطارد في مسيراتها — \170r\ ويكون الأشكال بحسب مسير المركز بالحركة الوسطى مبتدئًا من الأوج إلى التوالي هكذا. [diagrams] \171v\ [tables]

= 〈Risāla fī Ikhtilāfāt wuqūʿ al-khuṭūṭ fī l-ashkāl〉 (C.1.18a)

. — Title: none. — No marginal corrections or glosses.

173r–⁠174v

\173r\ [title] ليكن ا ب ج د ه الحامل على مركز ز وقطر ا ب وح عليه نقطة خارجة عن المركز وج ح د، د ح ه زاويتان عليها. فإن كانتا متساويتين كانت قوس د ه الأوجيّة — \174v\ فقد تبيّن بالاستقراء ولم يلخ لي طريق برهانيّ بعد إلى ذلك. والله الموفق.

= Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt (C.1.18b)

. — Title: Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt allatī yaḥduthu bi-sabab al-khurūj ʿan al-markaz. — Minor marginal corrections; no glosses.

174v–⁠175r

\174v\ [title] ا كوكب الرأس وب كوكب الرجل وفي المجسطي لأوّل سنة من ملك أنطونيس طول ا  و م وعرضه ز ك\175r\ فخرج الطول زائدًا على ما أخذه بطلميوس بسبع وعشرين دقيقة. والعرض زائدًا على ما أخذه بخمس وعشرين دقيقة فعرفنا أنه قد تساهل فيه وعمل على التقريب دون التحقيق والله أعلم.

= Fī Shakl al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (C.1.18c)

. — Title: Fī tashakkul al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī. — Only one marginal annotation in the hand of the scribe.