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Princeton, University Library, Garrett 3517Y

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

completed in Rabīʿ al-awwal 1133/January 1721 (257r).

Or.:

Qazvin, copied in the Dār al-sulṭa (257r); copied by Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn 〈b.〉 Shāh-Naẓar 〈ʿAlī〉 al-Ṭāliqānī (257r).

Prov.:

statement of ownership by Muḥammad Ismāʿīl dated 19 Rajab 1341/7 March 1923 (1r). Old shelfmark: ‘Y49’ (inside front cover).

Cod.: paper, 257 ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals; catchwords). A single very readable naskh hand in black. Fully dotted ductus; occasional vowels, substantial hamzas, hardly any shaddas. Book and chapter headings in red; the word qāla introducing text by Ptolemy and by ʿAlī b. Riḍwān in red. Minor tables and horoscopes. Codex in very good condition; moisture and mold stains; minor restorations. Dimensions: 259×167 mm, written area: 187×103 mm; 23 lines per page. Upper cover in red leather over paper pasteboard with guilloche outer border; marbled paper in the inside covers (PUL Catalog).

Cont.: astrology. — Index: title page (1r); Ptolemaica (1v–257r). Blank: none.

Bibl.: Rudolf Mach, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section) in the Garrett Collection, Princeton University Library, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977, p. 435 (no. 5050). PUL Catalog: https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/5170440.

1v–⁠257r	\1v\ قال أبو الحسن علي بن رضوان بن علي بن جعفر المتطبب: قصدنا أن نشرح أقاويل الحكيم بطلميوس في صناعة القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث — \257r\ فهذا أشياء قد شرحتها لك فانعم الله النظر فيها وتأملها والله يهدي من يشاء إلى صراط مستقيم. = ʿAlī ibn Riḍwān, Tafsīr al-Maqālāt al-arbaʿ (C.2.3) . — Title: Sharḥ Kitāb al-Maqālāt al-arbaʿa (1r). — Additional titles: Tafsīr Abī l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Riḍwān b. Jaʿfar al-mutaṭabbib li-Kitāb al-Arbaʿa li-Baṭlamyūs al-Qalūdī fī l-qaḍāʾ bi-l-nujūm ʿalā l-ḥawādith (257r). — Index: Book I.1 (=I), 1v–25r; I.2 (=II), 25r–50r; I.3 (=III), 50v–69r; II.1 (=IV), 69r–91r; II.2 (=V), 91r–115r; II.3 (=VI), 115r–133r; III.1 (=VII), 133r–154v; III.2 (=VIII), 154v–178r; III.3 (=IX), 178r–204r; IV.1 (=X), 204r–223v; IV.2 (=XI), 223v–245r; IV.3 (=XII), 245r–257r. — Minor marginal corrections; hardly any collations. No glosses. Occasional red labels describing the topic in the margin. A table of contents of Book III.1 in the margin (133r).

1v–⁠257r

\1v\ قال أبو الحسن علي بن رضوان بن علي بن جعفر المتطبب: قصدنا أن نشرح أقاويل الحكيم بطلميوس في صناعة القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث — \257r\ فهذا أشياء قد شرحتها لك فانعم الله النظر فيها وتأملها والله يهدي من يشاء إلى صراط مستقيم.

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

. — Title: Sharḥ Kitāb al-Maqālāt al-arbaʿa (1r). — Additional titles: Tafsīr Abī l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Riḍwān b. Jaʿfar al-mutaṭabbib li-Kitāb al-Arbaʿa li-Baṭlamyūs al-Qalūdī fī l-qaḍāʾ bi-l-nujūm ʿalā l-ḥawādith (257r). — Index: Book I.1 (=I), 1v–25r; I.2 (=II), 25r–50r; I.3 (=III), 50v–69r; II.1 (=IV), 69r–91r; II.2 (=V), 91r–115r; II.3 (=VI), 115r–133r; III.1 (=VII), 133r–154v; III.2 (=VIII), 154v–178r; III.3 (=IX), 178r–204r; IV.1 (=X), 204r–223v; IV.2 (=XI), 223v–245r; IV.3 (=XII), 245r–257r. — Minor marginal corrections; hardly any collations. No glosses. Occasional red labels describing the topic in the margin. A table of contents of Book III.1 in the margin (133r).