Escorial, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo, ár. 916
[Colour scanned images of the body text, without covers or binding.]
second work completed in late Rabīʿ al-ākhir 998/early March 1590 (181v).
Or.:unknown, probably Morocco; three different unknown scribes.
Prov.:a statement of ownership indicating that the manuscript was part of the books of the servant of God Zaydān (Zīdān) Amīr al-Muʾminīn, and a side note indicate that the book belonged to Amīr al-Muʾminīn b. Amīr al-Muʾminīn b. Amīr al-Muʾminīn b. Amīr al-Muʾminīn (1r); thus, the manuscript was part of the library of Muley Zīdān (d. 1037/1627), which was captured in 1612 and which enlarged the holdings of the Escorial; old shelfmarks: VH39, 39, num. 15, cod. 916 (1r).
Cod.:
paper, II+265 ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals; the foliation skips ff. 5 and 12; no catchwords). Three Maghribī hands. The first (1v-129v) is a small hand with book and chapter headings in red; the words qāla Baṭlamiyūs introducing text by Ptolemy frequently in bold red and the words qāla l-mufassir introducing text by ʿAlī b. Riḍwān frequently in bold blue, although occasionally they are also found in bold black; fully dotted ductus; fully vocalized headings and occasional vowels, hamzas, and shaddas in the body text. The second and slightly bigger hand (130v-181v) with words introducing new sections in bold; fully dotted ductus; frequent vowels, hamzas and shaddas. The third and bigger hand (182v-267v) with headings and words introducing new sections in bold naskh or thuluth; fully dotted ductus; frequent vowels, and occasional hamzas and shaddas. Minor tables and horoscopes. Dimensions: 285×205 mm; 32 (1v-129v), 26 (130v-181v) and 25 (182v-267v) lines per page. Mold stains.
Cont.:
astrology. —
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, vol. I, p. 350 (no. CMXI); 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, pp. 14–17.
1v–129v |
\1v\ ⟨…⟩ قال أبو الحسن علي بن رضوان بن علي الطبيب: قصدنا إلى شرح أقاويل بطلميوس في صناعة القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث. فنقول: إن القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث صناعة تنبئ عن مبادئ صادقة بالمتكونات المزمعة وذلك أن مبادئها الصادقة وهي أشياء تبين بعضها في العلم الطبيعي وبعضها في العلم التعالمي — \129v\ ⟨…⟩ فهذا أشياء قد شرحتها لك فانعم الله النظر فيها وتأملها والله يهدي من يشاء إلى صراط مستقيم. = ʿAlī ibn Riḍwān, Abū l-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Miṣrī, Tafsīr al-Maqālāt al-arbaʿ fī l-qaḍāʾ bi-l-nujūm ʿalā l-ḥawādith (C.2.1050). — |
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