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Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Sprenger 1839

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

c. 800/1400 (Ahlwardt).

Or.:

unknown; copied by Aḥmad b. Tamīm (from the scribal colophon of MS Berlin, SBPK, Sprenger 1840 , which is in the same hand and was initially bound together with the present manuscript in one volume, 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, 37 ff. (foliated with underlined Arabic-European numerals in pencil; an additional foliation in zimām, i.e., Coptic, numerals at the top left of rectos starting with ‘67’ on f. 2r, but possibly glued over on f. 1r; quire signatures of the form ‘thāniya min al-Thamara li-Baṭlamyūs’ in the scribe’s hand in the upper left corner of every tenth recto). A single elegant big naskh hand in black. Fully dotted ductus; substantial vowels including sukūns and tanwīns; substantial hamzas except on initial alifs; no shaddas. Centered headings introducing Pseudo-Ptolemy’s verba in decorated thuluth in red with vowels in black; commentary introduced by the term al-tafsīr in red. Codex in good condition; substantial moisture stains especially in the second half of the manuscript; the top outer corner of f. 1r ripped off and replaced with a pasted slip of paper with annotations in two different hands, one in English, indicating the contents of the manuscript. Dimensions: 24½×16½ cm, written area: 17½×11 cm; 17 lines per page. Purple cloth cover on pasteboard; wooden-like marbled pasteboard on top of the cloth cover except on the spine and corners. Type III binding.

Cont.: astrology. — Index: title page (1r); list of the correspondences of zodiacal signs and Coptic months in the same ink as the foliation in zimām numerals (1r); Ptolemaica (1v–37v). Blank: none.

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. Qalamos: https://www.qalamos.net/receive/DE1Book_manuscript_00014161.

1v–⁠37v	\1v\ {أطال الله بقاءك} في أدوم نعمة وأوسع كرامة وقرن سعيك بإرشاده وصوابك بتوفيقه {قد حضرت} أيدك الله بالأمس من سوء الخوض في كتاب الثمرة — \37v\ التفسير تبيّن أرسطاطالوس في كتاب الآثار العلويّة أنّ الأبخرة الحارّة إذا بلغت الأثير صارت شهبًا وهي الينازل (كذا) فليس بمستنكر أنّ يدل ظهورها على لأنّه ذكر \جفاف الأبخرة\ \|\| = Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad b. Yūsuf, Tafsīr Kitāb al-Thamara (C.3.1) . — Title: Kitāb al-Thamara Baṭlamyūs b. Falbūs al-Qalūdhī, Sharḥ Abī Aḥmad al-Ṭūlūnī (1r). — Additional titles: Thamarat Baṭlamyūs, Kalimātu-hu qā; al-Sharḥ li-Aḥmad b. Yūsuf al-Miṣrī al-Muhandis kātib … (1r); ‘Centiloquium Ptolemaei with a Comment by Abi Aḥmad Tawlúny’ (1r, on a glued-in printed paper slip). — Index: commentator’s introduction, 1v; 101 verba intertwined with the commentary, 1v–37v. — No colophons, as the text breaks off shortly after the beginning of the commentary on the last verbum due to a page loss (possibly of a single folio). A few marginal corrections and glosses in a single cursive hand. Not collated. Trimmed marginalia. Although the original verbum 1 is split into three parts, as is typical for the 102-verba version, its second part is not numbered as an individual verbum; furthermore, verbum 35 is numbered as 34 and verbum 43 as 44. Hence, the numbering is shifted by 1 with respect to the 100-verba version in verba 2–34 and 44–101, and it agrees with it in verba 34^bis–42 (cf. Escorial, RBMSL, ár. 969 for an identical arrangement). This witness was used for the edition in Martorello & Bezza (contrary to their statement, the text of verba 74–77 [here: 75–78] is not missing and is found on ff. 29v–30r).

1v–⁠37v

\1v\ {أطال الله بقاءك} في أدوم نعمة وأوسع كرامة وقرن سعيك بإرشاده وصوابك بتوفيقه {قد حضرت} أيدك الله بالأمس من سوء الخوض في كتاب الثمرة — \37v\ التفسير تبيّن أرسطاطالوس في كتاب الآثار العلويّة أنّ الأبخرة الحارّة إذا بلغت الأثير صارت شهبًا وهي الينازل (كذا) فليس بمستنكر أنّ يدل ظهورها على لأنّه ذكر \جفاف الأبخرة\ ||

= Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad b. Yūsuf, Tafsīr Kitāb al-Thamara (C.3.1)

. — Title: Kitāb al-Thamara Baṭlamyūs b. Falbūs al-Qalūdhī, Sharḥ Abī Aḥmad al-Ṭūlūnī (1r). — Additional titles: Thamarat Baṭlamyūs, Kalimātu-hu qā; al-Sharḥ li-Aḥmad b. Yūsuf al-Miṣrī al-Muhandis kātib … (1r); ‘Centiloquium Ptolemaei with a Comment by Abi Aḥmad Tawlúny’ (1r, on a glued-in printed paper slip). — Index: commentator’s introduction, 1v; 101 verba intertwined with the commentary, 1v–37v. — No colophons, as the text breaks off shortly after the beginning of the commentary on the last verbum due to a page loss (possibly of a single folio). A few marginal corrections and glosses in a single cursive hand. Not collated. Trimmed marginalia. Although the original verbum 1 is split into three parts, as is typical for the 102-verba version, its second part is not numbered as an individual verbum; furthermore, verbum 35 is numbered as 34 and verbum 43 as 44. Hence, the numbering is shifted by 1 with respect to the 100-verba version in verba 2–34 and 44–101, and it agrees with it in verba 34^bis–42 (cf. Escorial, RBMSL, ár. 969 for an identical arrangement). This witness was used for the edition in Martorello & Bezza (contrary to their statement, the text of verba 74–77 [here: 75–78] is not missing and is found on ff. 29v–30r).