PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Hyderabad, Salar Jung Museum, riyāḍī 7

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A main work with a short appendix: Arabic.  Date:

undated; late 11th/17th c. (Ashraf).

  Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

  Prov.:

statement of loan to Mullā ʿAlī; owner’s name Mullā Muḥammad ʿAlī Ardakānī (both on p. 1). A Persian verse stating the number of folios (p. 270). Accession no. 2148 (p. 1 [stamp of the Salar Jung Estate Library] and p. 2); crossed-out numbers 1992, 233 and 576 (p. 1). Library stamps and notes, including restoration (tanqīḥ) stamps with the year 1958 (e.g., pp. 1, 2).

Cod.: paper, 270 pp. (paginated with bold Arabic-European numerals in pencil in the top margin; foliated with Eastern forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil just left above the text area on rectos; empty folios after pp. 56, 174 and 234; catchwords). A single neat naskh hand in black; fully dotted ductus without vowel marks, hamza and waṣla generally provided. Book numbers (written out) and section numbers (overlined abjad) in bold black, book and section titles in red. Regular use of red overlines for sentence beginnings; proposition numbers in red abjad in the margins. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numbers and geometrical points in the text overlined in black. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or vice versa; only reserved spaces from p. 156 onwards; an inserted slip of paper with a diagram by a different hand between pp. 16 and 17. Tables with red lines; only the table of chords filled in, all other tables left empty or entirely omitted. Codex in fair condition; water damage at the top, particularly strong up to p. 23; some damage by insects, some stains. Dimensions: 21.2×11.8 cm; 25 lines per page (misṭara imprints). Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (pp. 2–268); Ptolemaica (pp. 268–270). Blank: pp. 56bis–ter, 174bis–ter, 194–195 (due to missing tables), 226, 234bis–ter.

Bibl.: Muḥammad Ashraf, A Concise Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Salar Jung Museum & Library, vol. VIII: Concerning 206 Manuscripts on Mathematics, Astronomy, Astrology, Medicine, Natural History and Alchemy, Hyderabad: Salar Jung Museum and Library, 2000, p. 29 (no. 2220).

pp. 2–⁠268

\p. 2\ الحمد لله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية. وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \p. 268\ فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا لله على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.

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

. — Title: Taḥrīr bar Majisṭī (p. 1, followed by qaymat). — Additional title: Majisṭī (1r, followed by a price). — Index: preface, pp. 2–3; Book I, pp. 3–35; II, pp. 35–57; III, pp. 57–82; IV, pp. 82–109; V, pp. 109–140; VI, pp. 140–165; VII, pp. 165–174; 〈VIII〉, pp. 175–188; IX, pp. 188–214; X, pp. 215–223; XI, pp. 223–235; XII, pp. 235–247; XIII, pp. 247–268. — No authorial or scribal colophon. Marginal corrections by the scribe marked with ṣḥ; extensive glosses to section I.10 by a nastaʿlīq hand (pp. 12–16); some further marginalia by a nastaʿlīq hand (pp. 28, 81 [diagram], 209).
pp. 268–⁠270

\p. 268\ [title] ا كوكب الرأس وب كوكب الرجل وفي مجسطي الأوّل سنة من ملك أنطونينس طول ا  ز م وعرضه ز ك — \p. 270\ والعرض زائدًا على ما أخذه بخمس وعشرين دقيقة. فعرفنا أنّه قد تساهل فيه وعمل على التقريب دون التحقيق. والله أعلم بالحقيقة.

= Fī Tashakkul 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. — No glosses.