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Escorial, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo, ár. 913

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single work: Arabic and Judeo-Arabic. Date:

Book II.3 (=VI) completed during the first ten days of June 1382 of the Spanish era (i.e., Muḥarram 745/June 1344) (86r); Book III.3 (=IX) completed on Tuesday, the last day of Rabīʿ al-awwal 745/10 August 1382 of the Spanish era (=ad 1344) (126r).

Or.:

unknown, probably al-Andalus; copied by Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Mūsā b. Muḥammad al-Qurṭubī l-Yamānī (126r).

Prov.:

no ownership statements in Arabic script. Old shelfmarks: ‘T VII.A.2’ (Iv), ‘J.I.16’ (Iv), ‘Cod. 873’ (I^av), ‘Cod. 843’ (?) (spine), ‘908’ (Casiri).

Cod.: paper with watermarks, I+161+I^a ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pen; no catchwords). Two different hands. First hand (1v–126r, Books I.1–III.3): an andalusī hand in brown or black; fully dotted ductus, hardly any vowels or hamzas, no shaddas; centered book and chapter headings in bold red, except on ff. 98v–126r in bold black; the words qāla Baṭlamyūs (usually abbreviated as qāla Baṭ on ff. 105v–126r) and qāla l-mufassir in red (1v–98r) or in bold black (98v–126r). Second hand (128r–160v, Books IV.1–3): a cursive Sephardic hand in dark brown; labels of horoscope diagrams in Arabic script (137r, 139r, 139v). It is possible that the scribe of both parts is the same, despite his Muslim name, as in the second part a few words in Arabic script are seemingly in the same hand as the first part (145r, 149v, 151v, 152v). Minor tables. First part of the codex in acceptable condition; significant ink corrosion, moisture and mould stains; restorations on the first two folios; second part of the codex in good condition. Dimensions: 265×205 mm; 33–35 (1v–126r) and 26 (128r–160v) lines per page. Bound in a European light-brown leather binding, decorated with blind-stamped frames with floral motifs; several blind-stamped elements with gilding; a central golden stamp 'MERVISSE SATIS' probably stemming from Juan de Borja, who was in the service of King Philip II (r. 1556–1598), with a black stamp of the Escorial library underneath; small holes in the covers due to hinges, damage to the spine partially restored. Head, tail and fore-edge coloured in gold with inscription ‘16. EBU AL HAZEN BINMIAAN (?) BATSMAIUC (?)’.

Cont.: astrology. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–161r); two tables on the Hebrew calendar with Arabic text and Arabic-European numerals (86v–87r); a note and a horoscope in Hebrew script (161v). Blank: presumably Ir, 88v, 126v–127v.

Bibl.: Miguel Casiri, Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana Escurialensis sive Librorum omnium Mss. quos Arabicè ab auctoribus magnam partem Arabo-Hispanis compositos Bibliotheca Coenobii Escurialensis complectitur, recensio & explanatio, 2 vols, Madrid: Antonius Perez de Soto, 1760–1770, here vol. I, pp. 347–348 (no. cmviii); Hartwig Derenbourg and H.-P.-J. Renaud, Les manuscrits arabes de l’Escurial. Tome II. — fascicule 3: Sciences exactes et sciences occultes, Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1941, p. 12.

1v–⁠161r	\1v\ [book title] قال أبو الحسن علي بن رضوان بن علي بن جعفر الطبيب: قصدنا أن نشرح أقاويل بطلميوس في صناعة القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث — \161r\ פהד֗ה אשיא קד שרחתהא לך פאנעם אלנט֗ר פיהא וטאמלהא. فهذه أشياء قد شرحتها لك فأنعم النظر فيها وتأمّلها. = ʿAlī b. Riḍwān, Tafsīr al-Maqālāt al-arbaʿ (C.2.3) . — Title: Sharḥ al-Maqāla al-ūlā wa-l-thāniya wa-l-thālitha min Kitāb Baṭlamyūs fī l-qaḍāʾ bi-l-nujūm (Ir). — Additional titles: Libro cumplido del philosopho Batlamayus alofludi de teorica Astronomie con comento de Abi lhacen ali aben redoan aben Jafar Elmedico (Iv). — Index: Book I.1 (=I), 1v–17r; I.2 (=II), 17v–33r; I.3 (=III), 33r–45v; II.1 (=IV), 46r–59r; II.2 (=V), 59v–75r; II.3 (=VI), 75r–86r; III.1 (=VII), 88v–101r; VIII (=III.2), 101r–113r; IX (=III.3), 113r–126r; X (=IV.1), 128r–140v; XI (=IV.2), 140v–153v; XII (=IV.3), 154r–161r. Only the first seven books are numbered according to the books of the Tetrabiblos. — Dated scribal colophons for Books II.3 (=VI) and IX (=III.3), and an undated scribal colophon for Book XII (=IV.3). Minor marginal corrections; no collations. Substantial glosses in Hebrew script through the entire manuscript. Minor glosses in Arabic script in at least two different hands and inks. Drawings of hands in the margin pointing to interesting sections of the body text or to marginal glosses.

1v–⁠161r

\1v\ [book title] قال أبو الحسن علي بن رضوان بن علي بن جعفر الطبيب: قصدنا أن نشرح أقاويل بطلميوس في صناعة القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث — \161r\ פהד֗ה אשיא קד שרחתהא לך פאנעם אלנט֗ר פיהא וטאמלהא. فهذه أشياء قد شرحتها لك فأنعم النظر فيها وتأمّلها.

= ʿAlī b. Riḍwān, Tafsīr al-Maqālāt al-arbaʿ (C.2.3)

. — Title: Sharḥ al-Maqāla al-ūlā wa-l-thāniya wa-l-thālitha min Kitāb Baṭlamyūs fī l-qaḍāʾ bi-l-nujūm (Ir). — Additional titles: Libro cumplido del philosopho Batlamayus alofludi de teorica Astronomie con comento de Abi lhacen ali aben redoan aben Jafar Elmedico (Iv). — Index: Book I.1 (=I), 1v–17r; I.2 (=II), 17v–33r; I.3 (=III), 33r–45v; II.1 (=IV), 46r–59r; II.2 (=V), 59v–75r; II.3 (=VI), 75r–86r; III.1 (=VII), 88v–101r; VIII (=III.2), 101r–113r; IX (=III.3), 113r–126r; X (=IV.1), 128r–140v; XI (=IV.2), 140v–153v; XII (=IV.3), 154r–161r. Only the first seven books are numbered according to the books of the Tetrabiblos. — Dated scribal colophons for Books II.3 (=VI) and IX (=III.3), and an undated scribal colophon for Book XII (=IV.3). Minor marginal corrections; no collations. Substantial glosses in Hebrew script through the entire manuscript. Minor glosses in Arabic script in at least two different hands and inks. Drawings of hands in the margin pointing to interesting sections of the body text or to marginal glosses.