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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Qom, Kitābkhāna-yi ʿumūmī-yi Ḥaḍrat-i 
Āyat Allāh al-ʿuẓmā Marʿashī Najafī, 19119

[Colour scanned images of the third work.]
Collection of three works: Persian and Arabic.  Date:

first work dated 6 Dhū l-ḥijja 747/​27 March 1347, second work 8th/​14th c. (Marʿashī Najafī & Mūsawī).

  Or.:

unknown; first work copied by Ḥaydar b. Muḥammad [al-Shīrāzī?].

  Prov.:

some Arabic and Persian verses of poetry attributed to ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib and quoted from al-Ghazālī (1r); an owner’s (?) name ‘ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Malfūẓī (?)’ (1r); a faded seal (1r); a religious seal and two illegible ones (9r); accession number (?): 16403 (1r). A waqf stamp of the Marʿashī library dated 1353/​1974 (1r, 27v, 52r); other modern library stamps (1r).

Cod.: paper, 54 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil; a second, separate, smaller foliation in pencil of the third work with Persian variants of Hindu-Arabic numerals at the bottom centre of rectos; catchwords). Ptolemaic part: a neat black naskh hand; mostly dotted ductus without vowel marks, occasional shaddas and hamzas. Text areas of the first and second works enclosed within double red rules; rubricated chapter headings and paragraph beginnings throughout the codex; in the Ptolemaic work, numerous dark-red overlines were added by a later hand as reading aids. Several tables and diagrams in the first two works; some astrological tables in the Ptolemaic part. Dimensions: 25×16.5 cm; written area: 22.5×13.5 cm for the first two works with respectively 31 and 30 lines per page, 21×11 cm with 22 to 24 lines per page for the Ptolemaic work. Manuscript in acceptable condition; severe damage throughout, nearly all margins repaired with paper slips, making some marginal notes illegible; smudges, sometimes affecting the readability. Brown leather binding (Marʿashī Najafī & Mūsawī).

Cont.: magic, timekeeping, and astrology. — Index: unknown, a treatise on magic squares (1v–9r); Naṣīr al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Ḥaydar al-Shīrāzī, Nukhba fī l-mawāqīt (9v–14v, incomplete); Ptolemaica (15v–54v).

Bibl.: Maḥmūd Marʿashī Najafī and Maḥmūd Mūsawī, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi buzurg-i Ḥadrat-i Āyatallāh al-ʿUẓmā Marʿashī Najafī, vol. XLVIII, Qom, 2018 (1397 H.S.), pp. 352–354 (nos 438–40).

15v–⁠54v

\15v\ [title] [toc] \16r\ ... الباب الأوّل في معرفة جملة معاني هذا الكتاب قال إنّ المتقدّمين من (كذا) لمعرفة ما هو كائن والاستدلال ما هو آت بالنجوم — \54v\ من دلالة الكواكب وملازمة بالأمر الذي ذکرنا في الأمر {المقدّم والحاضر} من دلالة الكواكب وهذا بيان أحدثه {...أوضحه} والشرحه (كذا) وأختم به كتابي. هذا ما بلغه عملي وتجربتي وأحسن ما تهيّأ لي به القول وبالحول والقوّة. کمل الکتاب.

= Ptolemy, Kitāb al-Arbaʿ (tr. unknown) (A.2.3)

. — Title: Kitāb Baṭlamyūs al-ḥakīm fī-mā huwa kāʾin fī maʿrifat al-nujūm wa-huwa arbaʿ aqwāl (15v). — Index: Book I, 15v–23v (incomplete); II, 23v–36v; III, 36v-47v; IV, 47v–54v. Each book preceded by a list of contents. Chapter I.4 breaks off in the middle of a sentence on f. 21r and continues in the middle of chapter I.23, pointing to missing folios in the exemplar; chapter I.24 starts on f. 21v but its heading is misplaced to the top of f. 22r, likely causing the misnumbering of subsequent chapters in Book I. — Undated authorial colophon supplemented by the scribe with a rubricated formula. Freehand tables for the terms according to the Egyptians (21r) and Ptolemy (22v, incomplete) as well as for the day and night rulers of the triplicities (21v and 22r); no tables are found in the only other surviving witness of this work, MS Istanbul, Üniversitesi, A 6141). Very few marginal notes, often affected by repairs, some indicated by siglum ṣ or hinting at collation practices (e.g., 41r, 43v, 53r).