Cod.: paper, I+198+I^a ff. (foliated with corresponding Hindu-Arabic numerals in pen and Arabic-European numerals in pencil; quires numerated at the center top of versos with Arabic and zimām numerals and with Arabic numbers written out in full; catchwords in some of the works by a later hand). A single clear naskh hand in brown. Substantially dotted ductus; occasional vowels and shaddas; occasional hamzas; kāfs are indicated with a second smaller kāf above. Centered work, book and chapter titles in brown or red naskh or thuluth; occasional titles in a later black hand. Abjad notation overlined in brown. Numerous diagrams and very few tables in a limited number of works; diagrams and tables in red with abjad notation in brown; few blank spaces left for diagrams. Codex in very good condition; mold and moisture stains, occasional rewriting in black of fainted text, some burns, some restorations, significant wear to the covers. Dimensions: 326×235 mm, written area: 215×155 mm; 27 lines per page. Covers in reddish leather over paper pasteboards with fillets. Half-bound. Type III binding.

Cont.: philosophy, history, mathematics, astrology, astronomy, and astrometeorology. — Index: table of contents in a different hand (1r); Muḥammad b. Zakarīyāʾ al-Rāzī, Kitāb al-sīra al-falsafiyya (1v–5v); Bakr b. Qāsim b. Abī Thawr al-Mawṣulī for his master Abū ʿUthmān Saʿīd b. Yaʿqūb al-Dimashqī, Maqāla fī l-Nafs (6r–12r); Thābit b. Qurra, Masāʾil allātī saʾala ʿan-hā Abū Mūsā ʿIsā b. Asad (12v–16v); Abū l-Najā l-Fāriḍ, Kitāb al-Khamsīn masʾala fī kasr al-manṭiq (16v–26v); Sinān b. Thābit, Sīyāsat al-nufūs (26v–28r); Yaḥyā b. ʿAdī, Tahdhīb al-akhlāq (28r–31r); anonymous, Risāla Tataḍammana ādāb wa-ḥikma (31v–33r); Ḥasan b. Sahl b. al-Shamkh b. Ghālib, Qawl fī l-Akhbār allātī yukhbiru bi-hā kathīrūn (33v–40v); Abū l-Qāsim b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Isḥāq al-Zajjājī, Sharḥ Risālat Adab al-kātib li-Abī Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh b. Muslim b. Qutayba (41r–58v); Ibn Abī Ṭāhir, al-Mukhtaṣar fī l-qirānāt (59r–63v); anonymous, al-Juzʾ al-awwal min Kitāb al-Jafr fī l-tabṣira fī Sharḥ al-shuhūr al-ʿarabiyya wa-l-rūmiyya wa-burūji-hā wa-mā fī-hā wa-manāzil al-qamar wa-l-anwāʾ wa-ṭulūʿ al-manāzil wa-ghurūb al-naẓāʾir wa-dhikr al-tawārikh wa-l-riyāḥ wa-hubūbi-hā wa-l-ʿalāmāt al-ṣādiqa wa-l-barāhīn al-nayyira al-wāḍiḥa wa-l-qamar ʿinda l-ṭulūʿ wa-l-maghīb mim-mā qāla-hu Arisṭūṭālīs min ḥarakāt al-ḥayawān wa-ʿalāmāt al-sharāb wa-ghayri dhālika wa-ḥawādith al-jaww wa-ʿalāmāt al-nayyirāt wa-l-andāʾ wa-l-amṭār mim-mā istakhraja min Kitāb Dāniyāl wa-Sulaymān b. Dāwud ʿalay-himā l-salām wa-shahada bi-dhālika l-falāsifa wa-l-ʿamāliqa (64r–81r); Ptolemaica (81v–102v); Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. al-Zarqīlah al-Ṭulayṭulī, Kitāb al-ʿAmal bi-l-ṣafīḥa al-zījiyya al-mawḍūʿa li-taqwīm al-kawākib wa-taʿlīl al-taʿdīl ʿala mā tūjibu-hu al-hayʾa al-falakiyya (103r–107v); Thābit b. Qurra, Kitāb fī Ḥisāb ruʾyat al-ahilla (108r–113r); Ibn Sīnā, Risāla fī Mā taqarrara ʿinda-hu fī ḥujaj al-muthbitīn li-l-māḍī mubdāʾan zamāniyyan wa-taḥlīli-hā ilā l-qīyāsāt (113v–121v); Nicomachus of Gerasa (tr. Thābit b. Qurra), Kitāb al-Madkhal ilā ʿilm al-ʿadad (122r–164r); Apollonius of Perga, Fī l-Ashkāl al-ṣanawbariyya or Kitāb al-Makhrūṭāt (164v–172v); Abū Maʿshar, al-Qawl fī l-Namūdhārāt (173r–175v); Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq al-Kindī, Risāla fī Mulk al-ʿarab wa-kamiyyati-hi (175v–178r; see Otto Loth, ‘Al-Kindî als Astrolog’, in H. Derenbourg, H. Ethé, O. Loth, A. Müller, F. Philippi, B. Stade and H. Thorbecke (eds), Morgenländische Forschungen. Festschrift Herrn Professor Dr. H. L. Fleischer zu seinem funfzigjährigen Doctorjubiläum am 4. März 1874 gewidmet, Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1875, ch. 7, pp. 261–309); definitions of philosophical terms, in other witnesses ascribed to al-Kindī (178r–178v; see Stern); Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Riḍwān, Dalīl mūjaz ʿalā ḥadath al-ʿālam (178v); Abū l-Majd b. ʿAṭīya, Maqāla fī l-Ḍarb wa-l-qisma bi-l-hindī min ghayr maḥw wa-la naql (179r–188r); Ibn Sīnā, Maqāla fī l-Nafs (188v–198v). Blank: none.

Bibl.: William Cureton and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens, pars II, London: Curatorum Musei Britannici, 1852, pp. 205–209 (no. ccccxxvi); S. M. Stern, ‘Notes on al-Kindī’s Treatise on Definitions’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 91 (1959), pp. 32–43; Bernard R. Goldstein, The Arabic Version of Ptolemy’s Planetary Hypotheses, Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1967, p. 5; Régis Morelon, ‘La version arabe du Livre des hypothèses de Ptolémée’, Mélanges de l’Institut Dominicain d’Etudes Orientales 21 (1993), pp. 7–85, here p. 9. — Qatar Digital Library: https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023601232.0x000001.