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London, British Library, Add. 7475

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Single acephalous and incomplete work: Arabic. Date:

completed on 3 Shaʿbān 615/25 October 1218 (239v).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

an octagonal seal of Claudius James Rich (1787–1821), dated 1812, with the famous quatrain by Saʿadī balagha l-ʿulā bi-kamāli-hi, kashafa al-dujā bi-jamāli-hi, ḥasunat jamīʿu khiṣāli-hi, ṣallū ʿalay-hi wa-āli-hi from the preface of the Gulistān (II^ar).

Cod.: paper, III+239+III^a ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil; an earlier crossed-out foliation with Arabic-European numerals in pencil, apparently following an old arrangement of the quires in disorder; no catchwords). A single readable naskh hand in black. Ductus not completely dotted; occasional vowels, hardly any shaddas and no hamzas. Titles in black thuluth. Abjad notation indicated with black overlines. Diagrams in black; tables in red and black and occasionally only in black. Codex in very good condition; mould and moisture stains, slightly worm-eaten with restorations. Dimensions: 25.0×16.7 cm, written area: 19.6×11.9 cm; 21 lines per page. Covers in reddish leather over paper pasteboards with fillets. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1r–239v). Blank: 27r, 230r.

Bibl.: William Cureton and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens, Pars II, London: Museum Britannicum, 1852, p. 187 (no. cccxc); Paul Kunitzsch, Der Almagest. Die Syntaxis Mathematica des Claudius Ptolemäus in arabisch-lateinischer Überlieferung, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1974, p. 42; Paul Kunitzsch, Claudius Ptolemäus. Der Sternkatalog des Almagest. Die arabisch-mittelalterliche Tradition, 3 vols, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1986–1991, here vol. I, p. 5. — Qatar Digital Library: https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000004987.0x000001.

1r–⁠239v	\1r\ \|\| تصوير هذين المعنين جميعًا بما كان عنده فيهما من الأمور الظاهرة إلّا أنّ ما حصل له من ذلك في الزمان الأطول هو بالحدس والتقريب أشبه منه بالعلم الحقيقيّ — \239v\ وبقدر ما يكون ما دوّنّاه من ذلك نافعًا في هذا العلم من غير أن نلتمس به الكبير والأقصار. فقد يليق ويحسن أن نجعل هذا آخر الكتاب بحمد الله وعونه وتأييده. تمّت المقالة الثالثة عشرة بحمد الله وعونه وبتمامها تمّ جميع الكتاب. = Ptolemy, al-Majisṭī (tr. Isḥāq b. Ḥunayn/Thābit b. Qurra) (A.1.2) , Books VII to XIII. — Title: Kitāb Baṭlamyūs fī l-taʿālīm al-maʿrūf bi-l-Majisṭī naql Isḥāq b. Ḥunayn (199v). — Additional titles: Kitāb Baṭlamyūs al-mansūb ilā l-taʿālīm (51r, 86r, 199r); Kitāb Baṭlamyūs al-maʿrūf bi-l-Majisṭī (85v); Kitāb Baṭlamyūs al-Qalūdhī fī l-taʿālīm (116v); Kitāb Baṭlamyūs fī l-taʿālīm (117r, 162r); Kitāb Baṭlamyūs fī l-taʿlīm al-maʿrūf bi-l-Majisṭī (161r). — Index: Book VII, 1r–26v (beginning missing); VIII, 27v–51r; IX, 51r–86r; X, 86r–116v; XI, 117r–161v; XII, 162r–199r; XIII, 199v–239v. — This is probably the second volume of a two-volume set. The first folio is missing. Even though this manuscript transmits the Isḥāq-Thābit version, the star catalogue is taken from the version by al-Ḥajjāj. Minor marginal corrections and clarifications; no collations. Minor glosses in a maghribī or andalusī hand.

1r–⁠239v

\1r\ || تصوير هذين المعنين جميعًا بما كان عنده فيهما من الأمور الظاهرة إلّا أنّ ما حصل له من ذلك في الزمان الأطول هو بالحدس والتقريب أشبه منه بالعلم الحقيقيّ — \239v\ وبقدر ما يكون ما دوّنّاه من ذلك نافعًا في هذا العلم من غير أن نلتمس به الكبير والأقصار. فقد يليق ويحسن أن نجعل هذا آخر الكتاب بحمد الله وعونه وتأييده. تمّت المقالة الثالثة عشرة بحمد الله وعونه وبتمامها تمّ جميع الكتاب.

= Ptolemy, al-Majisṭī (tr. Isḥāq b. Ḥunayn/Thābit b. Qurra) (A.1.2)

, Books VII to XIII. — Title: Kitāb Baṭlamyūs fī l-taʿālīm al-maʿrūf bi-l-Majisṭī naql Isḥāq b. Ḥunayn (199v). — Additional titles: Kitāb Baṭlamyūs al-mansūb ilā l-taʿālīm (51r, 86r, 199r); Kitāb Baṭlamyūs al-maʿrūf bi-l-Majisṭī (85v); Kitāb Baṭlamyūs al-Qalūdhī fī l-taʿālīm (116v); Kitāb Baṭlamyūs fī l-taʿālīm (117r, 162r); Kitāb Baṭlamyūs fī l-taʿlīm al-maʿrūf bi-l-Majisṭī (161r). — Index: Book VII, 1r–26v (beginning missing); VIII, 27v–51r; IX, 51r–86r; X, 86r–116v; XI, 117r–161v; XII, 162r–199r; XIII, 199v–239v. — This is probably the second volume of a two-volume set. The first folio is missing. Even though this manuscript transmits the Isḥāq-Thābit version, the star catalogue is taken from the version by al-Ḥajjāj. Minor marginal corrections and clarifications; no collations. Minor glosses in a maghribī or andalusī hand.