PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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London, British Library, Add. 7476

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]
Single work: Arabic.  Date:

undated; 10th/16th or 11th/17th c.

Or.:

unknown, probably Persian; copied by Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Hamadānī (343r).

Prov.:

statement of ownership with the name erased, dating the purchase of the manuscript to 1080/1669-70 (343r). An octagonal seal by Claudius James Rich (d. 1822), dated 1812, with the famous quatrain by Saʿadī balagha l-ʿulā bi-kamāli-hi, kashafa al-dujā bi-jamāli-hi, ḥasunat jamīʿu khiṣāli-hi, ṣallū ʿalay-hi wa-āli-hi from the preface of the Gulistān (1v).

Cod.: paper, II+343+IIa ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil; no catchwords). A single black cursive naskh hand; almost fully undotted ductus, no shaddas, hamzas or vowels. Numerals and abjad notation in black without overlines. Book headings in cursive red or black naskh overlined in red; chapter headings in black overlined in red introduced by the term faṣl. Substantial diagrams in red and black; few tables, table lines in black with abjad numbers in red. Codex in excellent condition; no moisture or mold stains, last leaf damaged and restored. Dimensions: 252×132 mm, written area: 195×90 mm; 23 lines per page. Covers in reddish leather over paper pasteboards with fillets. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: a text in Persian on computations regarding the months of the year (1r); Ptolemaica (1v–343r). Blank: all flyleaves (with the exception of some librarian’s notes).

Bibl.: William Cureton and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens, pars II, London: Curatorum Musei Britannici, 1852, p. 187 (no. cccxcii). Qatar Digital Library: https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023403504.0x000001.

1v–⁠343r

\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كـلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن رسيل من أغلق يمينه بشكر تمري الزيادة فأحمده على ما أولانا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض — \343r\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظه فلحظه لسعادة ويسرى ويجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة وبشرى ويرحم الله عبدا قال أمينا.

= Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38)

. — Title: Kitāb Sharḥ Sharḥ Majisṭī li-l-ʿallāma al-Nīsābūrī (1v, 343r). — Index: author’s preface, 1v–4v; Book I, 4v–64v; II, 64v–92r; III, 92r–125r; IV, 125r–142r; V, 142v–179v; VI, 179v–226r; VII, 226v–236r; VIII, 236r–243v; IX, 243v–265v; X, 265v–277r; XI, 277r–290r; XII, 290r–314r; XIII, 314r–343r. — Scribal colophon. Dated authorial colophons at the end of every book. Substantial marginalia, mainly glosses in the scribe’s hand. The manuscript does not seem to have been corrected or collated.