London, British Library, Or. 7368
completed during the last ten days of Ramaḍān 628/late July-early August 1231 (106r).
Or.:Damascus (106r); unknown scribe. — The same hand as in MS Berlin, SBPK, Landberg 132, copied in Damascus in 626/1229 and containing Jābir b. Aflaḥ’s Kitāb fī l-Hayʾa/Iṣlāḥ al-Majisṭī (C.1.14).
Prov.:library statement with shelfmark ‘151’ with most of the name of the owner of the library erased except for ‘al-ʿĀmir’ (1r). Bought from the bookdealer Murād al-Barūdī on 9 October 1909 (IIv, back flyleaf).
Cod.: paper, II+106 ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil; pagination with Hindu-Arabic numerals added in 1909 by al-Barūdī, IIv; no catchwords). A single naskh hand in brown; ductus inconsistently dotted without vowels, shaddas or hamzas. Book headings in bigger bold naskh in black, rubricated; additionally, some centered book headings in bold black; sections introduced by a red overline or with formulae written in brown overwritten in red. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals overlined in brown. Diagrams with red lines and dark-brown geometrical points. Codex in acceptable condition; mold and moisture stains, slightly worm-eaten. f. 106 mutilated. Dimensions: 224×150 mm, written area: 162×115 mm; 24 lines per page. Half-bound covers in crimson red leather over paper pasteboards; marbled pastedowns. Type III binding.
Cont.: astronomy. —
Bibl.: Alexander G. Ellis and Edward Edwards, A Descriptive List of the Arabic Manuscripts Acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum since 1894, London: British Museum, 1912, p. 39; Audanbek K. Kubesov and Dzh. al’-Dabbakh, Al’-Farabi. Kommentarii k „Al’magestu“ Ptolemeya. Chast pervaya [Knigi I-V], Alma Ata: Nauka Kazakhskoi SSR, 1975; Richard P. Lorch, Thābit ibn Qurra. On the Sector-Figure and Related Texts, Frankfurt am Main: Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften, 2001, p. 351. —
1v–80v, 97r–106r
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\1v\ قد حان أن نورد جوامع كتاب بطلميوس الكبير المعمول في المجسطي وعلم الهيئة — \106r\ لكنّا من وراء أن يتحقق ذلك برصد نحاوله نرجو أن نبلغ فى استقصائه ما لم يبلغ قبلنا بعون الله وحسن توفيقه. = Ibn Sīnā, Talkhīṣ al-Majisṭī (C.1.8)
, with the extra chapter. — |
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