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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Cambridge, University Library, Eton Pote 264

[Colour photographs of the textblock and covers.]
Single work: Arabic. Date:

992/1584-5 (title page) and Tuesday, 12 Dhū l-qaʿda 1131/26 September 1719 (colophon, f. 437r).

Or.:

Fatehpur, India; the first codicological entity (2r–399v) copied by order of Sheikh … (?), the second entity (400r–437r) copied by Muḥammad ʿĀbid Abī ʿAbd al-Karīm, who is said to have been proficient in the mathematical sciences (1r, colophon on 437r).

Prov.:

a seal dated 1021/1612-3, another seal dated 1069/1658-9 (1r), some erased seals. The book was most probably part of the library of Colonel Antoine-Louis Henri Polier (1741–1795) and was gifted Eton College by Edward Ephraim Pote (d. 1832) in 1788 (Fihrist). Old shelfmarks: ‘606’ (Polier) in Arabic numerals (front cover, fore-edge), ‘N. 264’ (1r), ‘Eton College Library 62’ (inside of back cover) and ‘Eton shelf 6/15’ (1r).

Cod.: paper, 437 ff. (unfoliated; catchwords, partially copied onto the pasted pieces of paper used for the restoration of the codex). Two entities in two different clear hands in black. First hand (2r–399v): naskh written with a thick-nibbed pen in 992/1584-5. Second hand (400r–437r): an elegant round naskh tending to nastaʿlīq; mostly dotted ductus; hardly any shaddas, vowels and hamzas. Chapter headings in red, paragraphs partially indicated by red overlines. Substantial figures and tables in red and black, sometimes trimmed in the margins. Dimensions: 25.3×15.7 cm, written area: 20×10.5 cm; 23–25 lines per page (no ruling). Substantial stains, worm-eaten, crude repairs with pasted paper strips, especially towards the end of the first part, water damage post-dating the restoration; binding becoming loose. Full brown leather cover over paper pasteboards with orange endband; blind-tooled medallion with pendants and floresque ornaments on front and back cover together with a simple frame; inside doublures decorated with marble paper. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–437r).

Bibl.: D.S. Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Oriental Manuscripts in the Library of Eton College, Oxford: Horace Hart, 1904, p. 12 (no. 62). Fihrist – Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World: https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/manuscript_15401.

1v–⁠437r

\1v\ الحمد الله الذي جعلنا من المتفكّرين في خلق السموات والأرض و ألهمنا طريق معرفة مقادير حركات الأجرام النيّرة في الطول والعرض خلق سبع سموات طباقًا وجعل القمر فيها نورًا وجعل الشمس سراجًا — \437r\ والحمد للهأوّلًا وآخرًا وباطنًا وظاهرًا والصلوة والسلام على زيده الليالى والأيّام محمّد سيّد الثقلين وخير الأنام وآله الأخيار العظام وشيعته الأبرار الكرام وقد فرغت من تحرير هذا الشرح وتسويده وتصحيحه بقدر الإمكان وتحويده ضحوة يوم السبت العاشر في أوائل ذو القعدة سنة إحدى وعشرين وتسعمائة من الهجرة النبوية وأنا العبد المفتقر إلى رحمة ربّ الثقلين عبد العلي بن محمّد بن حسين رقع السلوني ؟ الله روحه. م. م.

= al-Birjandī, Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.42)

. — Title: al-Sharḥ li-l-Taḥrīr (2v). Index: author’s preface, 1v–3r; Book I, 3r–81r; II, 81r–120v; III, 120v–161v; IV, 161v–187v; V, 187v–239r; VI, 239r–283v; VII, 283v–311r; ⟨VIII⟩, 311r–350r; IX, 350v–382v; X/XI, 382v–403r/393r–407r; XII, 407r–419r; XIII, 419r–437r. — Authorial colophon dated Saturday, 10 Dhū l-qaʿda 921/16 December 1515. Scribal colophon. Calculations in the margins, marginalia in different hands both on the original paper and on restorations, diagrams in the margins trimmed, few corrections in the hand of the scribe introduced by sigla or ṣḥ.