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Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, ar. 2484

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Two parts of a single work: Arabic. Date:

the Ptolemaic work was completed on Thursday, 8 Rabīʿ al-thānī 673/11 October 1274 (143v); the part on geometry was completed on Tuesday, 27 Rabīʿ al-thānī 673/30 October 1274 (221v).

Or.:

Baghdad; copied by 〈Jamāl al-Dīn〉 Ḥasan b. Yūsuf b. Muṭahhar 〈al-Ḥillī〉, the celebrated disciple of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, al-ʿAllāma al-Ḥillī (648–726/1251–1326) (143v, 221v).

Prov.:

unreadable seals (144r, 221v). A note dated 1851 by the Melkite monk Anṭūn Yūsuf Būlād al-Dimashqī (1794–1871; on him, see ZiriklīKhayr al-Dīn al-Ziriklī, Al-ʾAlām. Qāmūs tarājim li-ashhar al-rijāl wa-l-nisāʾ min al-ʿarab wa-l-mustaʿribīn wa-l-mustashriqīn, 8 vols, 15ᵗʰ ed., Beirut: Dār al-ʿilm li-l-malāyīn, 2002, vol. II, p. 26). Old shelfmarks: ‘Suppl. Ar. 2097’, ‘R.C. 4901’ (1r).

Cod.: paper, I+221+II^a ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals; quire signatures in the form ‘thāniya al-Majisṭī’ in the top left corner of every tenth recto; no catchwords). A single cursive naskh hand in black; mostly undotted ductus with no vowels, shaddas or hamzas. Centered headings in black. Few diagrams in red with geometrical points in black, some without geometrical points; substantial blank spaces for diagrams. No tables. Codex in very good condition; moisture stains. Dimensions: 24×13 cm; 24 lines per page. Quarter-bound covers on marbled pasteboards. Type II binding.

Cont.: astronomy and mathematics. — Index: a biographical note on Ibn Sīnā taken from Abū ʿUbayd al-Juzjānī’s Sīrat al-shaykh al-Raʾīs (1r); Ibn Sīnā, Kitāb al-Shifāʾ, al-Riyaḍiyyāt, including: Ptolemaica (1v–143v); Uṣūl al-handasa (144r–221v). Blank: ff. I, I^a–II^a.

Bibl.: William MacGuckin de Slane, Catalogue des manuscrits arabes, Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1883–1895, p. 440; George Vajda, Notices de manuscrits arabes rédigées par George Vajda (Arabe 2465-2499) (unpublished typescript, MS arabe 7299/3), Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1940–1969, pp. 49–50^bis. — BnF Archives et manuscrits: https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc30401c.

1v–⁠143v	\1v\ المقالة الأولى من تلخيص كتاب بطلميوس في التعاليم وهو كتاب المجسطي مما حرّره الشيخ أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله بن سينا. قال: وقد حان لنا أن نورد جوامع كتاب بطلميوس الكبير المعمول في المجسطي وعلم الهيئة — \143v\ لكنّا من وراء أن يتحقّق ذلك برصد نحاوله نرجو أن نبلغ فى استقصائه ما لم يبلغ قبلنا بعون الله وحسن توفيقه. وهذا آخر اختصار المجسطي. = Ibn Sīnā, Talkhīṣ al-Majisṭī (C.1.8) , with the extra chapter. — Title: Mukhtaṣar Kitāb al-Majisṭī li-Baṭlamyūs Taḥrīr al-shaykh al-Raʾīs Ibn Sīnā (1r). — Index: Book I, 1v–15r; II, 15r–27v; III, 27v–41v; IV, 41v–57r; V, 57r–77r; VI, 77r–92r; VII, 92r–93v; VIII, 93v–97r; IX–XI, 97r–120r; XII, 120v–129r; XIII, 129r–141r; extra chapter, 141r–143v. — Scribal colophon. Minor marginalia consisting of few marginal corrections and minor collations. No glosses. Most of the diagrams have been left blank.

1v–⁠143v

\1v\ المقالة الأولى من تلخيص كتاب بطلميوس في التعاليم وهو كتاب المجسطي مما حرّره الشيخ أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله بن سينا. قال: وقد حان لنا أن نورد جوامع كتاب بطلميوس الكبير المعمول في المجسطي وعلم الهيئة — \143v\ لكنّا من وراء أن يتحقّق ذلك برصد نحاوله نرجو أن نبلغ فى استقصائه ما لم يبلغ قبلنا بعون الله وحسن توفيقه. وهذا آخر اختصار المجسطي.

= Ibn Sīnā, Talkhīṣ al-Majisṭī (C.1.8)

, with the extra chapter. — Title: Mukhtaṣar Kitāb al-Majisṭī li-Baṭlamyūs Taḥrīr al-shaykh al-Raʾīs Ibn Sīnā (1r). — Index: Book I, 1v–15r; II, 15r–27v; III, 27v–41v; IV, 41v–57r; V, 57r–77r; VI, 77r–92r; VII, 92r–93v; VIII, 93v–97r; IX–XI, 97r–120r; XII, 120v–129r; XIII, 129r–141r; extra chapter, 141r–143v. — Scribal colophon. Minor marginalia consisting of few marginal corrections and minor collations. No glosses. Most of the diagrams have been left blank.