PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Aligarh, Maulana Azad Library, Abd al-Hai 629/6

[Colour scanned images of ff. 2v–59r.]
Incomplete single work: Arabic.  Date:

undated; presumably 11th/17th–12th/18th c.

Or.:

unknown, unknown copyist.

Prov.:

not assessable.

Cod.: blue, orange and brownish paper, 126 ff. (foliated with Urdu variants of Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil above the text area of rectos, with an unnumbered leaf after f. 31; catchwords). A black nastaʿlīq hand; almost fully dotted ductus. Book headings in red; section titles with red overlines and introduced by abjad numerals. Abjad numerals overlined. Diagrams with red or black lines, all lacking geometrical points. Tables with red lines, all empty. Codex in acceptable condition; considerable damage by insects repaired with Japanese paper, affecting the readability. Dimensions: not given; 19 lines per page.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (2v–126).

Bibl.: Maulana Azad Library, handlist of Arabic manuscripts in the Abdul Hai collection (downloaded on 26 September 2023), p. 23; LAMTMª José Parra, ‘A List of Arabic Manuscripts of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī’, Suhayl 16–17 (2018–2019), pp. 251–322, p. 256 (no. 3).

2v–⁠126

\2v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ بداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية.

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

. — Title: none.  — Index: author’s preface, 2v–3r; Book I, 3r–20r; II, 20r–32v; III, 32v–41v; IV, 41v–52r; V, 52r–?; ff. 59v–126 not seen (our scans end in section V.14). Incomplete, Books I–XII (LAMT). Headings for Books II, III and V missing. — Some marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe, indicated by siglum ṣḥ.