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St Petersburg, Institut Vostochnykh Rukopiseĭ, B 809

[Physical manuscript, inspected in March 2026.]

Collection of two works and a short note: Arabic. Date:

undated.

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

a romantic poem with Syro-Levantine characteristics (Ir). Ownership statement by ʿAbdallāh b. Ilyās, dated ad 1731 (1r). A note on the contents of the codex (in Latin with Arabic and Greek insertions): Ptolemei Kitāb al-Thamara, Karpos, sive Fructus liber ... Centiloquium. Centum aphorismi astrologici cum commentario. Annexum est Muhammedin ben Salih Vocabularium Turcico-Arabicum (IIv). Red stamps ‘Seal of the Asiatic Museum’ with the heraldic double‑headed eagle (IIr).

Cod.: Paper, II+59+I^a ff. (first treatise foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in ink and with Arabic-European numerals in pencil, the remainder of the codex with Arabic-European numerals in pencil and in ink; catchwords). A single neat naskh hand with tanwīns. The title and the words for verbum (kalima) and commentary (tafsīr) in red; red dots as sentence dividers. Codex in very good condition. Dimensions: 25×16.5 cm; 19–23 lines per page. Simple cardboard covers without any decorations or inscriptions. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy, philology. — Ptolemaica (1v–35r); a grammar of Ottoman Turkish (35v–55v, in Arabic); a short note on recipes (56r). Blank: ff. 57–59.

Bibl.: Anas B. Khalidov, Arabskie rukopisi Instituta Vostokovedeniya. Kratkii katalog, 2 vols, Moskva: Nauka, 1986, here vol. I, p. 456 (no. 9738).

1v–⁠35r	\1v\ الكلمة الأولى قال بطلميوس علم النجوم منك ومنها التفسير ومراده في منك ومنها أنّ لتقدمة المعرفة بالنجوم طريقين — \35r\ فدخل ابن الخليج الماء إلى مصر من بعد ذلك يمدّ يده وتسلّط على مصر ونواحيها وجرى بمصر جميع ما ذكره بطلميوس فيه والله أعلم وعليه المرجع. = Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad b. Yūsuf, Tafsīr Kitāb al-Thamara (C.3.1) , version with 102 verba. — Title: Kitāb al-Thamara fī ʿilm al-nujūm li-l-ḥakīm al-fāḍil Baṭlamyūs wa-tafsīru-hā miʾat kalima (1v). — Index: 100 verba interspersed with the commentary. Preface omitted. — No authorial or scribal colophon. Two verba apparently omitted in the course of the work, so that the total number of verba is 100. Very rare marginal corrections in red. No marginalia.

1v–⁠35r

\1v\ الكلمة الأولى قال بطلميوس علم النجوم منك ومنها التفسير ومراده في منك ومنها أنّ لتقدمة المعرفة بالنجوم طريقين — \35r\ فدخل ابن الخليج الماء إلى مصر من بعد ذلك يمدّ يده وتسلّط على مصر ونواحيها وجرى بمصر جميع ما ذكره بطلميوس فيه والله أعلم وعليه المرجع.

= Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad b. Yūsuf, Tafsīr Kitāb al-Thamara (C.3.1)

, version with 102 verba. — Title: Kitāb al-Thamara fī ʿilm al-nujūm li-l-ḥakīm al-fāḍil Baṭlamyūs wa-tafsīru-hā miʾat kalima (1v). — Index: 100 verba interspersed with the commentary. Preface omitted. — No authorial or scribal colophon. Two verba apparently omitted in the course of the work, so that the total number of verba is 100. Very rare marginal corrections in red. No marginalia.