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Istanbul, Millet Kütüphanesi, Ali Emiri 2742

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

completed on 10 Rabīʿ al-awwal 894/11 February 1489 (192v).

Or.:

unknown; copied by Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Shujāʿī al-Fārisī (192v).

Prov.:

an undated statement of ownership by Shihāb al-Dīn ʿAlī l-Ḥasanī l-Ḥusaynī l-Ṭabāṭabaʾī (1r). A partially erased statement of ownership dated 1277/1860-1 (1v). A note in Persian, partially affected by restorations, including the date Muḥarram 892 (?)/January 1497 or more likely Muḥarram 1192/February 1778 (192v). A note in Persian, partially affected by restorations, dated Muḥarram ... (192v). A partially erased oval seal and two fainted square ones (1v); an oval seal and a square one (192v). A seal of the ʿAlī Amīrī collection (3r). Old shelfmarks: ‘25’, ‘83’, ‘66 hayʾa (58)’, ‘1171’, ‘92 ḥ’ (inside cover).

Cod.: paper, 192 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil; catchwords). A single very readable naskh hand in black; almost fully dotted ductus, hardly any vowels, hamzas or shaddas. Book headings in red and chapter headings in bold black; the words qāla Baṭlamyūs and qāla l-mufassir in red. Minor tables and horoscopes. Codex in good condition; substantial moisture stains, mold stains, and minor ink smudges; restorations particularly on ff. 1 and 192, only affecting the last six lines of f. 192r and notes in the margins of ff. 1r and 192v. Dimensions: 258×175 mm, written area: 175×110 mm; 25 lines per page.

Cont.: astrology. — Index: title page with notes in Persian and Arabic (1r); Ptolemaica (1v–192v). Blank: none.

Bibl.: Paul Kunitzsch, Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-musawwara fī Maʿhad Iḥyāʾ al-Makhṭūṭāt al-ʿArabiyya, juzʾ III: al-ʿulūm, qism 1: al-falak, al-tanjīm, al-mīqāt, Cairo: Arab League, 1958, p. 71. Yazma Eserler Veritabanı: https://portal.yek.gov.tr/works/detail/150216 (with scans).

1v–⁠192v	\1v\ قال أبو الحسن علي بن رضوان بن علي بن جعفر المتطبب: قصدنا أن نشرح أقاويل الحكيم بطلميوس في صناعة القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث — \192v\ فهذه أشياء قد شرحتها لك فانعم النظر فيها وتأملها والله يهدي من يشاء إلى صراط مستقيم. = ʿAlī ibn Riḍwān, Tafsīr al-Maqālāt al-arbaʿ (C.2.3) . — Title: Kitāb al-Qaḍāʾ bi-l-nujūm ʿalā l-ḥawādith fī-hi al-arbaʿ maqālāt li-Baṭlamyūs mashrūḥa, sharḥ Abī l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Riḍwān b. ʿAlī b. Jaʿfar al-Mutaṭabbib (1r). — Additional titles: Sharḥ Arbaʿ maqālāt li-Baṭlamyūs fī l-nujūm (1r); Tafsīr Abī l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Riḍwān b. Jaʿfar al-mutaṭabbib li-Kitāb al-Arbaʿa Baṭlamyūs al-Falūdī fī l-qaḍāʾ bi-l-nujūm ʿalā l-ḥawādith (192v). — Index: Book I.1 (=I), 1v–19r; I.2 (=II), 19r–36v; I.3 (=III), 36v–51r; II.1 (=IV), 51r–67v; II.2 (=V), 67v–86r; II.3 (=VI), 86r–99v; III.1 (=VII), 99v–116r; III.2 (=VIII), 116r–133v; III.3 (=IX), 133v–152v; IV.1 (=X), 152v–166v; IV.2 (=XI), 167r–183r; IV.3 (=XII), 183r–192v. — Dated scribal colophon. Book I.3 (=III) is mistakenly numbered as Book II (36v), and Book III.3 (=IX) as Book IV (133v), although the manuscript appears to be correctly arranged. Occasional marginal corrections and glosses in different hands.

1v–⁠192v

\1v\ قال أبو الحسن علي بن رضوان بن علي بن جعفر المتطبب: قصدنا أن نشرح أقاويل الحكيم بطلميوس في صناعة القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث — \192v\ فهذه أشياء قد شرحتها لك فانعم النظر فيها وتأملها والله يهدي من يشاء إلى صراط مستقيم.

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

. — Title: Kitāb al-Qaḍāʾ bi-l-nujūm ʿalā l-ḥawādith fī-hi al-arbaʿ maqālāt li-Baṭlamyūs mashrūḥa, sharḥ Abī l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Riḍwān b. ʿAlī b. Jaʿfar al-Mutaṭabbib (1r). — Additional titles: Sharḥ Arbaʿ maqālāt li-Baṭlamyūs fī l-nujūm (1r); Tafsīr Abī l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Riḍwān b. Jaʿfar al-mutaṭabbib li-Kitāb al-Arbaʿa Baṭlamyūs al-Falūdī fī l-qaḍāʾ bi-l-nujūm ʿalā l-ḥawādith (192v). — Index: Book I.1 (=I), 1v–19r; I.2 (=II), 19r–36v; I.3 (=III), 36v–51r; II.1 (=IV), 51r–67v; II.2 (=V), 67v–86r; II.3 (=VI), 86r–99v; III.1 (=VII), 99v–116r; III.2 (=VIII), 116r–133v; III.3 (=IX), 133v–152v; IV.1 (=X), 152v–166v; IV.2 (=XI), 167r–183r; IV.3 (=XII), 183r–192v. — Dated scribal colophon. Book I.3 (=III) is mistakenly numbered as Book II (36v), and Book III.3 (=IX) as Book IV (133v), although the manuscript appears to be correctly arranged. Occasional marginal corrections and glosses in different hands.