PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Carullah 1499

[Colour scanned images of the textblock, without covers or binding.]
A collection of two works: Arabic. Date:

first work completed on 28 Dhū l-qaʿda 677/12 April 1279 (11r); second work completed on 30 Ramaḍān 677/14 February 1279 (81r).

Or.:

Cairo (81r); unknown scribe.

Prov.:

seal of the Carullah collection (2r).

Cod.: paper, I+82+Ia ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals; a non-foliated pasted leaf (56bis); few quire signatures; catchwords). A single clear naskh hand with western elements, except for the pasted folio 56bisr in a different naskh hand; headings in red; new sections indicated with rubrics. Fully dotted ductus; frequent vowels, occasional shaddas and no hamzas. Overlined abjad notation. Substantial diagrams in black with abjad notation in red and labels in black or red; no tables. Dimensions: 180×120 mm; 17 lines per page. Moisture stains; substantially worm-eaten; the inner bottom corners are badly damaged affecting the eight six bottom lines of ff. 1r–10v; some restorations.

Cont.: astronomy and mathematics. — Index: an acephalous Kitāb fī l-Ḥayʾaal-mushtamal ʿalā maqālatayn by an anonymous author (1r–11r); Ptolemaica (11v–81r); Tajrīd uṣūl tarkīb al-juyūb by al-Battānī (edited and translated in Mohammad Bagheri, ‘Battâni’s Version of Trigonometric Formulas’, Taḥqīqāt-i Islāmī 7 (1992), pp. 169–176) (81v). Blank: Iv, 56bisv.

Bibl.: KrauseMax Krause, ‘Stambuler Handschriften islamischer Mathematiker’, Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik, Astronomie und Physik, Abteilung B: Studien 3 (1936), pp. 437–532, here p. 493 (no. 364/1).