PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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London, British Library, Or. 7368

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]
One main work and a fragment: Arabic.  Date:

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. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–80v, 97r–106r); Kushyār b. Labbān, part of Book IV of al-Zīj al-Jāmiʿ (81r–96v). Blank: Ir, IIr (except for traces of an erased earlier text), Iar.

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. — British Library Archives and Manuscripts: http://searcharchives.bl.uk/permalink/f/79qrt5/IAMS032-002747495; Qatar Digital Library: https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022625065.0x000001.

1v–⁠80v, 97r–⁠106r

\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. — Title: Sharḥ Majisṭī, nasaba taṣnīfi-hi ilā l-ʿallāmat Abī Naṣr al-Fārābī (IIv, 1r). — Index: preface, 1v; Book I, 1v–10r; II, 10r–18r; III, 18r–27v; IV, 27v–37r; V, 37r–49v; VI, 49v–59r; VII, 59r–60r; VIII, 60r–62r; IX–XI, 62r–77r; XII, 77r–80v and 97r–98v; XIII, 98v–104r; extra chapter, 104r–106r. This manuscript attributes the work to al-Fārābī (Iv, 1r). Book XII is mistakenly headed Book X (corrected in the margin) and it is interrupted by a fragment from Book IV of al-Zīj al-Jāmiʿ by Kushyār b. Labbān, in the same version as MS Alexandria, al-Maktaba al-baladiyya, 4285 J. — Scribal colophon. Minor marginal corrections. Collated. Some glosses introduced by the term ḥāshiya. Marginalia in the scribe’s hand. Topics indicated in red in the margins.