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Cambridge, University Library, Mm 6.27

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Collection of two works: Judaeo-Arabic. Date:

undated; 9-10^th/15-16^th c. (Reif).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

current shelfmark (1r, 11^av, and on f. II^av with an ex-libris ‘Academiæ Cantabrigiensis Liber’).

Cod.: paper, I+206+11^a+II^a ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals on rectos, with f. 197v numbered 198, hence practically skipping a number; occasional catchwords). A brown Sefardi hand without any use of other colours; occasional shaddas. Titles in bold (chapter titles XII.6 (188r), XII.7 (189v) and XII.9 (193r) in a different hand with the number in abjad). Substantial diagrams with abjad notation and labels. Tables sometimes incomplete. Codex in bad condition; the upper half of the first folio is lost and large stains on the first six pages affect the readability of the text; moisture stains throughout, mostly in the margins; worm-eaten; some pages have been pasted. Dimensions: 20×14 cm, written area: c. 14½×95 cm; 30 lines per page. Cover in quarter brown calf with marbled paper sides. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1r–206v); disordered fragments from al-Zawzanī, epitome of ʿAlī b. Yūsuf al-Qifṭī’s Kitāb Ikhbār al-ʿulamāʾ bi akhbār al-ḥukamāʾ (1^ar–10^av). Blank: 13r, 17v, 18v, 37r, 46v, 65r–v, 202r, 11^ar, I^ar–II^ar.

Bibl.: Bernard R. Goldstein, ‘The Survival of Arabic Astronomy in Hebrew’, Journal for the History of Arabic Science 3 (1979), pp. 31–39, here p. 32 and n. 3; Paul Kunitzsch, Claudius Ptolemäus. Der Sternkatalog des Almagest. Die arabisch-mittelalterliche Tradition, 3 vols, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1986–1991, vol. I, p. 4; Stefan C. Reif, Hebrew Manuscripts at the Cambridge University Library, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 386 and 408–409.

1r–⁠206v	\1r\ \|\| פלך אלברוג אלמפרוצ֗ה. אלנוע אלאול פי צדר הדה אלכתאב. נעם מא פעל פי מא ארי יא סורין אלאצתקצוא עלם אלפלספה פי אפראדהם גז אלפלספה אלנט֗רי עלי אלעמלי — \197v [=198]\ ואמא פי עטארד פאלי אלגנוב אבדא ואן אפלאך אלתדאויר אמא אקטארהמא אלדי ימר באלבעד אלאבעד מנהא אלדי {…} פאנהא אד֗א צארת פי סטח אלפלך אלכארג אלמרכז אבתדאת אבתדא מא מן דלך אלמוצ֗ע יתחרך\|\|  \199r\ [tables] \1r\ \|\| فلك البروج المفروضة. النوع الأوّل في صدر هذه الكتاب. نعم ما فعل في ما أرى يا سورين الاصتقصوا علم الفلسفة في إفرادهم جزء الفلسفة النظريّ على العمليّ — \197v [=198]\ وأمّا في عطارد فإلى الجنوب أبدًا وأنّ الأفلاك التداوير أمّا أقطارهما الذي يمرّ بالبعد الأبعد منها الذي {…} فإنّها إذا صارت في سطح الفلك الخارج المركز ابتدأت ابتداء ما من ذلك الموضع يتحرّك\|\|  \199r\ [tables] = Ptolemy, al-Majisṭī (tr. Isḥāq b. Ḥunayn/Thābit b. Qurra) (A.1.2) , incomplete and in great disorder. — Title: al-Majisṭī in some of the book titles, Kitāb Baṭlamīyūs al-mansūb ilā l-taʿālīm in others. — Additional titles: ‘Ptolomaei Almagestum Arabice versum ab characteribus Hebraiciis’ (IIr); ‘Almagestum’ (spine). — Index: Book I, 1r–20 (table of contents missing); II, 20r–32v, 66r–72v; III, 72v–80v, 33r–41v; IV, 41v–60r; V, 60v–64v, 81r–98v, 99v; VI, 99v, 99r, 100r–116v; VII, 117v, 117r, 118r–124v; VIII, 124v–133r; IX, 133r–147r; X, 147v–161v; XI, 162r–179v (chapter XI.11 missing); XII, 180r–195v; XIII.1–2, 196r–197v [=198]; tables from earlier books, 199r–205v, 206v. The text breaks off in chapter XIII.2. — Marginal corrections and glosses in the scribe’s hand; marginal and interlinear corrections and a few geometrical diagrams in the margin (4r) by a second hand. A short note mentioning Ptolemy by a third hand (2r).

1r–⁠206v

\1r\ || פלך אלברוג אלמפרוצ֗ה. אלנוע אלאול פי צדר הדה אלכתאב. נעם מא פעל פי מא ארי יא סורין אלאצתקצוא עלם אלפלספה פי אפראדהם גז אלפלספה אלנט֗רי עלי אלעמלי — \197v [=198]\ ואמא פי עטארד פאלי אלגנוב אבדא ואן אפלאך אלתדאויר אמא אקטארהמא אלדי ימר באלבעד אלאבעד מנהא אלדי {…} פאנהא אד֗א צארת פי סטח אלפלך אלכארג אלמרכז אבתדאת אבתדא מא מן דלך אלמוצ֗ע יתחרך||  \199r\ [tables]

\1r\ || فلك البروج المفروضة. النوع الأوّل في صدر هذه الكتاب. نعم ما فعل في ما أرى يا سورين الاصتقصوا علم الفلسفة في إفرادهم جزء الفلسفة النظريّ على العمليّ — \197v [=198]\ وأمّا في عطارد فإلى الجنوب أبدًا وأنّ الأفلاك التداوير أمّا أقطارهما الذي يمرّ بالبعد الأبعد منها الذي {…} فإنّها إذا صارت في سطح الفلك الخارج المركز ابتدأت ابتداء ما من ذلك الموضع يتحرّك||  \199r\ [tables]

= Ptolemy, al-Majisṭī (tr. Isḥāq b. Ḥunayn/Thābit b. Qurra) (A.1.2)

, incomplete and in great disorder. — Title: al-Majisṭī in some of the book titles, Kitāb Baṭlamīyūs al-mansūb ilā l-taʿālīm in others. — Additional titles: ‘Ptolomaei Almagestum Arabice versum ab characteribus Hebraiciis’ (IIr); ‘Almagestum’ (spine). — Index: Book I, 1r–20 (table of contents missing); II, 20r–32v, 66r–72v; III, 72v–80v, 33r–41v; IV, 41v–60r; V, 60v–64v, 81r–98v, 99v; VI, 99v, 99r, 100r–116v; VII, 117v, 117r, 118r–124v; VIII, 124v–133r; IX, 133r–147r; X, 147v–161v; XI, 162r–179v (chapter XI.11 missing); XII, 180r–195v; XIII.1–2, 196r–197v [=198]; tables from earlier books, 199r–205v, 206v. The text breaks off in chapter XIII.2. — Marginal corrections and glosses in the scribe’s hand; marginal and interlinear corrections and a few geometrical diagrams in the margin (4r) by a second hand. A short note mentioning Ptolemy by a third hand (2r).