PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Or. 680

Single work: Arabic.  Date:

undated; before 615/1219 from the date of the oldest statement of ownership (219r).

  Or.:

unknown, probably Persian; unknown scribe.

  Prov.:

reading note by the Persian jurist, philologist, physician, mathematician and astronomer 〈Shams al-Dīn Abū l-Mufākhir〉 ʿUmar b. al-Muẓaffar b. Rūzbihān b. Ṭāhir (d. 632/1234-5) dated 615/1219, probably in Shiraz where Ibn Ṭāhir lived most of his life (219r; on him, see Muʿīn al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim Junayd Shīrāzī, Shadd al-izār fī ḥaṭṭ al-awzār ʿan zawwār al-mazār, ed. Muḥammad Qazwīnī and ʿAbbās Iqbāl Āshtiyānī, Tehran, 1328 H.S./1949-50, pp. 235–238, no. 164). Statement of purchase by a ʿAlī b. … b. Muḥammad al-A…ī in Rajab 671/January-February 1273 (date also given as 1584 according to the era of Alexander) for 6½ dinars from Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī and with Najm al-Dīn al-Khayyāmī al-Baghdādī as witness (219r). Statement of ownership by the well-known Ḥanafī jurist, traditionist and judge 〈Abū Ḥanīfa Qiwām al-Dīn Luṭf Allāh〉 Amīr Kātib b. Amīr ʿUmar 〈b. Amīr Ghāzī〉 al-ʿAmīd al-Fārābī al-Itqānī dated Ṣafar 749/May 1348, who should have bought this copy in Damascus (2r; on him, see Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Durar al-kāmina fī aʿyān al-miʾa al-thāmina, ed. Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Muʿīd Ḍān, 2nd ed., 6 vols, Hyderabad: Dāʾirat al-maʿārif al-ʿuthmāniyya, 1392/1972, vol. I, pp. 493–496). Statement of ownership by Ibn Faḍl Allāh b. Abī l-Faraḥ (2r). Statement of ownership by Abū Sākir* (Shākir?) b. Mufaḍḍal b. Abī l-Faraḥ dated 754/1353-4 (2r). Statement of ownership by Muḥammad b. Taqī al-Dīn b. Abī l-Ṣidq al-Ḥarākī al-Ḥasanī or al-Ḥusaynī al-Riyāḍī (2r), who also owned MS Damascus, Maktaba Waṭaniyya, 14558, dated 1000/1591-2. A note in Arabic, probably by the hand of Levinus Warner, indicating ‘Obtain the Qawānīn al-farsī by Sayyid Aḥmad b. Muṣṭafā better known by Lālī and the Makhrūṭāt (Conics) by Apollonius’ (Ir). From the legacy of the German-born Dutch diplomat in Ottoman Istanbul Levinus Warner (d. 1665) to Leiden University (Ir, 223r).

Cod.: paper, II+219+IIa ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pen, skipping the number ‘121’ and f. 207bis; an additional numbering with abjad numerals from f. 11 onwards, in the beginning sometimes cut off; no catchwords). A single fast and inelegant big naskh hand with an increasing slant backwards and larger when the text is next to or before figures and tables. Almost fully undotted ductus except for the first twelve folios; no vowels, hamzas or shaddas. Title in thuluth (2r); book headings in bold without indentation or page break; centered chapter headings without bold. Substantial figures and tables; the figures were drawn before the text was copied. A different naskh hand on the inserted folio 20bis from a different work. Dimensions: not provided; 35–39 lines per page.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: note in Arabic, probably by the hand of Levinus Warner (Ir, see above); a short biographical notice on Ptolemy copied by Amīr Kātib b. Amīr ʿUmar al-ʿAmīd 〈al-Itqānī〉 from a Kitāb akhbār Baṭlamyūs (1v, from the section ‘Akhbār Baṭlīmūs’ from Abū l-Wafāʾ al-Mubashshir b. Fātik’s Mukhtar al-ḥikam wa-maḥāsin al-kalim); Ptolemaica (2r–219r); an inserted folio in a different hand with an excerpt of Ibn Zaydūn’s (d. 463/1071) al-Risāla al-Jiddiyya (20bisr–v); a poem in nūn by ʿUmar b. al-Muẓaffar b. Rūzbihān b. Ṭāhir on time, forgetfulness, and the excellence of knowledge and the intellect (219v). Blank: 1r, 220r–v.

Bibl.: Pieter de Jong and Michael Jan de Goeje, Catalogus Codicum Orientalium. Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno Batavae, vol. III, Leiden: Brill, 1865, p. 80 (no. mxliv); Petrus Voorhoeve, Handlist of Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the University of Leiden and Other Collections in the Netherlands, Leiden: Universiteitsbibliotheek, 1957, p. 212; Paul Kunitzsch, Der Almagest. Die Syntaxis Mathematica des Claudius Ptolemäus in arabisch-lateinischer Überlieferung, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1974, pp. 37–38; Paul Kunitzsch, Claudius Ptolemäus. Der Sternkatalog des Almagest. Die arabisch-mittelalterliche Tradition, 3 vols, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1986–1991, vol. I, p. 5; Jan Just Witkam, Inventory of the Oriental Manuscripts of the Library of the University of Leiden, vol. I: Manuscripts Or. 1 – Or. 1000, Leiden: Ter Lugt Press, 2007, p. 285. — Leiden University Libraries Digital Collections: http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1871093.

2r–⁠219r

\2v\ هذا كتاب أمر لتفسيره الإمام المأمون عند الله أمير المؤمنين من اللسان الروميّ إلى اللسان العربيّ على يد الحجاج بن يوسف الحاسب وسرجون بن هليا الروميّ في سنة اثنتي عشرة ومائتين من سني الهجرة، هجرة النبي محمّد صلّى الله عليه وسلّم. وهو الكتاب الكبير الذي يقال له المجسطي — \219r\ فلنصير هذا الموضع الذي انتهينا إليه خاتمة هذا الكتاب وتمامه بما يشبهه من خاصّته وحسن تقديره. تمّ القول الثالث عشر من كتاب بطلميوس الذي يقال له المجسطي. وتمّ كتاب المجسطي وكمل وهو يليه عشر قولًا. والحمد لله ربّ العالمين وصلواته على رسوله محمّد المصطفى وآله أجمعين.

= Ptolemy, al-Majisṭī (tr. al-Ḥajjāj) (A.1.1)

. — Title: Kitāb al-Majisṭī alladhī raṣada-hu wa-allafa-hu Baṭlīmūs al-Qalūdhī fī ʿilm al-nujūm wa-l-ḥarakāt allawātī fī l-samāʾ (title page, 2r). — Index: preface, 2v; Book I, 2v–14r; II, 14r–33v; III, 33v–49v; IV, 49v–65v; V, 65v–88r; VI, 88r–105r; VII, 105r–118v; VIII, 119r–131v; IX, 132r–151v; X, 151v–164v; XI, 164v–183v; XII, 183v–199v; XIII, 200r–219r. — A couple of marginal additions by the same hand. No corrections, variants or glosses.