PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Damascus, al-Maktaba al-waṭaniyya, 7790

[Black-and-white microfilm scans of ff. 1–123.]

Undated. Unknown origin and copyist.

Cod.: paper, 172 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals; inserted slips after ff. 31, 62, 68, 75, and 123; no catchwords). A naskh hand; fully dotted ductus, some hamzas, no shaddas. Book headers large and bold or in red; section numbers in overlined red abjad, section titles in red. Abjad numbers in red. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or the other way around; some diagrams in the margins. Tables with red lines, sloppily copied, sometimes in the margins or on inserted sheets, some only partially filled; a rosette (97r). Codex in good condition; outer and lower edges damaged by rodents, only hindering the reading of some glosses; f. 1 heavily damaged and restored. Dimensions: 19.5×11 cm; 23 lines per page.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–?). Khūrī indicates that the manuscript is majmūʿ, his explicit (see below) that al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr is complete. We have not been able to find other parts of the manuscript in the catalogues of the Ẓāhiriyya Library.

Bibl.: Ibrāhīm Khūrī, Fihris makhṭūṭāt Dār al-kutub al-Ẓāhiriyya: ʿIlm al-hayʾa wa-mulḥaqātu-hu, Damascus: Majmaʿ al-Lugha al-ʿArabiyya bi-Dimashq, 1969, p. 14. — al-Furqān: https://digitallibrary.al-furqan.com/our_is_item/manid/1900342/.

1v–⁠?

\1v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض {كلّ خير ووليّ} كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — وإذا تمّمنا جميعَ ما يفتقر إلى إرشادِه من وجود ما يحتاج إلى وجوده، وتصحيحِ ما يحتاج إلى تصحيحه، إلاَّ الشاذُّ، بحسب ما وصل إليه علمي، ومبلغ رأيي، وبقدر ما أعانَ الزمان عليه، ودوّنا ما هو نافعٌ في هذا العلم من غير أن قصدنا بذلك تكبّرًا وافتخارًا. فلنختم الكتاب. ...

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

. — Title: Kitāb-i Taḥrīr-i Majisṭī (1r); Majistī (sic) dar ʿilm-i nujūm (1v). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–18v (sections I.2–6 missing); II, 19r–25v; III, 26r–47r; IV, 47v–62v; V, 62v–80r; VI, 80r–97v; VII/VIII, 97v–117r; IX, 117r–?; ff. 123–172 not seen. — Marginal corrections marked with ṣ or ṣḥ. Alternative readings in the margins, all in different hands, marked with b or nkh; glosses by different hands, with various sigla (e.g., 12r).