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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Princeton, University Library, Garrett 3515Y

[Black-and-white microfilm scans of the textblock.]
Incomplete single work: Arabic.  Date:

undated; 8th/14th or 9th/15th c. (Mach).

  Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

  Prov.:

seal of Sultan Bāyazīd II (r. 1481–1512) (3r; see DerocheFrançois Déroche, Islamic Codicology. An Introduction to the Study of Manuscripts in Arabic Scripts, London: Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation, 2005, p. 337); two additional seals, one repeated twice, dated 1116/1704-5 (3r); a partially erased and trimmed statement of ownership probably dated 1135/1722-3 (3r). Old shelfmark: ‘49Y’.

Cod.: thin dark cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible (PUL Catalog), 147 ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil; an earlier foliation with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pen starting on f. 3; no catchwords; pages trimmed). A single very readable naskh hand in black; the last page (f. 146r) in a different, slightly smaller naskh hand. Partially dotted ductus; occasional vowels, hamzas and shaddas. Decorated title page; centred book headings; book and chapter headings in red; the words qāla Baṭlamyūs and qāla l-mufassir in red. Minor tables and horoscopes. Codex in acceptable condition; substantial moisture stains, mold stains, restorations on ff. 2 and 3; binding loose. Dimensions: 25×17 cm, written area: 19×12½ cm; 25 lines per page. Red leather over paper pasteboard with guilloche outer border; marbled paper pastedown; lower cover lost (PUL Catalog).

Cont.: astrology. — Index: title page (3r); Ptolemaica (3v–146r). Blank: 1v–2v, 146v–147r, and presumably 147v.

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/6268299.

3v–⁠146r

\3v\ [title] قال أبو الحسن علي بن رضوان بن علي بن جعفر الطبيب: قصدنا أن نشرح أقاويل بطلميوس في صناعة القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث. فنقول: إن القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث صناعة تُنبئ عن مبادئ صادقة بالمتكونات المزمعة وذلك أن مبادئها الصادقة هي أشياء تبين بعضها في العلم الطبيعي وبعضها في العلم التعالمي — \146r\ فإنك إن فهمتها وعملت بحسب ما فيها اقتدرت على أن يخبر بما يكون في العالم من قليل وكثير في كل يوم بإذن الله تعالى.

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

. — Title: Tafsīr al-Maqālāt al-arbaʿa (3r). — Additional titles: Tafsīr al-Maqālāt al-arbaʿa li-Baṭlamyūs fī l-qaḍāʾ bi-nujūm ʿalā l-ḥawādith (3r); Sharḥ Maqālāt Baṭlamyūs fī l-qaḍāʾ bi-nujūm ʿalā l-ḥawādith (3r). — Index: Book I, 3v–27r; II, 27v–53v; III, 53v–75v; IV, 75v–99r; V, 99v–127r; II.3 (VI), 127r–146r. — The first volume of a two-volume set. Undated scribal colophon (146r; this whole page is in a different, slightly smaller hand). Marginal corrections; collations. No glosses. Marginalia in an additional hand (126r).