Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Sprenger 1839
[Colour scanned images of the body text, covers and binding.]
c. 800/1397 (Ahlwardt).
Or.:unknown; copied by Aḥmad b. Tamīm (from the scribal colophon of Berlin, SBPK, Sprenger 1840 , which was initially bound together with the present manuscript in one volume and is in the same hand, MS Sprenger 1840 preceding the present manuscript).
Prov.:no ownership statements; the foliation in zimām numerals and the reference to Coptic months point to the Coptic cultural area; ex libris ‘Ex Biblioth. Regia Berolinensi’ in red (1r).
Cod.:
brown paper, I+37+Ia ff. (foliation in Arabic-European numerals on top right recto folios; additional foliation in zimām, i.e. Coptic, numerals on top right recto folios starting on f. 67r, matching f. 2r in the Arabic-European foliation; quire signatures on every tenth folio in the scribe’s hand). A single neat elegant big naskh hand in black; fully dotted ductus; centered headings introducing verba in decorated thuluth in red and vowels in black; commentary introduced by the term al-tafsīr rubricated; substantial vowels including sukūns and tanwīns; substantial hamzas except on initial alifs; no shaddas. Substantial moisture stains; the top outer corner of f. 1r ripped off with a pasted paper and annotations in two different hands, one in English, indicating the contents of the manuscript. Dimensions: 245×165 mm, written area: 175×110 mm; 17 lines per page. Purple cloth cover on pasteboard; wooden-like marbled pasteboard on top of the cloth cover except spine and corners. Type III binding (no flap).
Cont.:
astrology. —
Bibl.:
Wilhelm Ahlwardt, Verzeichniss der arabischen Handschriften der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin, vol. V, Berlin: Asher, 1893, p. 273 (no. 5874); Franco Martorello and Giuseppe Bezza, Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Dāya. Commento al Centiloquio Tolemaico, Milano / Udine: Mimesis, 2013, pp. 34–35; SBB Orient digital: http://orient-digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/receive/SBBMSBook_islamhs_00014161 [accessed 27 November 2020].
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\1v\ ⟨…⟩ في أدوم نعمة وأوسع كرامة وقرن سعيك بإرشاده وصوابك بتوفيقه ⟨…⟩ أيدك الله بالأمس من سوء الخوض في كتاب الثمرة وقبح التأول لمعانيه ما زادني حرصًا على إسعافك بتفسيره ليكون عصمة لموثره من مجاهدة من زاد تقديمه على مقدار ما حصل له من المعرفة مبينًا عن مواقع هذا الكتاب من علم أحكام النجوم وهذا حين ابتدئ وبالله التوفيق — \37v\ ⟨…⟩ التفسير: فبين أرسطاطالوس في كتاب الآثار العلوية أن الأبخرة الحارة إذا بلغت الأثير صارت شهيًا وهي الينازل فليس بمستنكر أن يدل طهورها على ذكر. = Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Dāya, Tafsīr Kitāb al-Thamara (C.3.0930). — |
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