PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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St Petersburg, Rossiĭskaya Natsionalnaya Biblioteka, Khanykov 121⁢⁢

[Physical manuscript, inspected in March 2026.]
Single incomplete work: Arabic.  Date:

11th–12th/17th–18th c. (on paleographical grounds, Rozhanskaya et al.).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

note of ownership by a certain Muḥammad (1r). A note in Persian (1r). A small piece of paper filled with calculations in abjad, inserted after the last folio.

Cod.: paper, 213+I ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil centred in the lower part of the outer margin of every tenth recto; catchwords). A single very clear naskh hand in black; fully dotted ductus with ḥamzas and tanwīns and some vowels. Beginnings of chapters and qawlu-hu in red, abjad numbers overlined in red. Diagrams with red lines (sometimes black) and geometrical points in black. Codex in good condition; heavy water damage on f. 1. Dimensions: 25×17.5 cm, written area: 19×11 cm; 21 lines per page. Brown leather back cover with frame and mandorla; the front cover is missing.

Cont.: astronomy. – Index: Ptolemaica (1v–213r). Blank: 213v.

Bibl.: Bernhard Dorn, Die Sammlung von morgenländischen Handschriften, welche die Kaiserliche Öffentliche Bibliothek zu St. Petersburg im Jahre 1864 von Hrn. v. Chanykov erworben hat, St. Petersburg: Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1865, pp. 32–33 (no. 121); Mariam M. Rozhanskaya, Galina P. Matvievskaya and Irina O. Lyuter, Nasir ad-Din at-Tusi i ego trudy po matematike i astronomii v bibliotekakh Sankt-Peterburga, Kazani, Tashkenta i Dushanbe, Moscow: “Vostochnaya literatura” RAN, 1999, pp. 101–102.

1v–⁠213r

\1v\ الحمد لله الذي جعلنا من المتفكّرين في خلق السموات والأرض وألهمنا طريق معرفة مقادير حركات الأجرام النيّرة في الطول والعرض — \213r\ قوله لا فيما يقرب من دائرة البروج منفردًا حاصل الكلام أنّ أبرخس ذكر أنّ الكواكب الثابتة التي يقرب من دائرة البروج وهي كواكب التي|| 

= al-Birjandī, Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.44)

. — Title:  Kitāb Sharḥ li-mullā ʿAbd al-ʿAlī ʿalā al-Majisṭī (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–3r; Book I, 3r–69r; II, 69r–98v; III, 98v –129v; IV, 129v–148r; V, 148r–181r; VI, 181r–212v; VII, 212v–213r (only the first two pages). The text breaks off in section VII.1. — Some marginalia.