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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Alexandria, al-Maktaba al-baladiyya, 12591 (3598 D)⁢⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]
Single acephalous work: Arabic.  Date:

finished in the afternoon (ẓuhr) of Monday, 20 Rabīʿ al-thānī 1037/​Wednesday, 29 December 1627 (160v).

  Or.:

copied by Murtaḍā b. Muḥammad Muʾmin (160v).

  Prov.:

subject ‘al-hayʾa wa-l-falak’ and accession number ‘3598 D’ (Iv). Oval library stamps ‘Kutubkhānat majlis baladī Iskandariyya’ in purple (49r, 101r, 152r, 160v, Iar).

Cod.: paper, I+160+II ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil, with ‘18’ and ‘19’ following f. 4 although the order of the leaves is correct; two inserted sheets after ff. 49 and 50; catchwords). A single black naskh hand; fully dotted ductus. Book and chapter headings as well as abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals in red. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrial points, occasionally vice versa. Tables with red lines, some left empty (e.g., 26r–27r); a rosette (88r). Codex in very good condition; minor damage by insects. Dimensions: 19×13.5 cm; 22 lines per page. Heavily damaged vinaceous leather covers and brown leather spine; restored red leather flap. Type II binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1r–160v). Blank: 12v, Ia.

Bibl.: Yūsuf Zaydān, Fihris makhṭūṭāt Baladiyyat al-Iskandariyya, Vol. I: Al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʿilmiyya (al-ṭabīʿiyyāt – al-riyāḍiyyāt – al-falak – al-ṭibb), Alexandria: Al-Hayʾa al-ʿāmma li-Maktabat al-Iskandariyya, 1996 (1417 AH), p. 76 (no. 38); LAMTMª José Parra, ‘A List of Arabic Manuscripts of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī’, Suhayl 16–17 (2018–2019), pp. 251–322, p. 255–256 (no. 2).

1r–⁠160v

 || \1r\احتياج إلى زيادة اهتمام وإنّما تكلّفت ذلك لكون الكتاب علمًا بين أهل العلم ينصّون عليه في محاوراتهم — \160v\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ قد وفّقني الله تعـ{ـالى} لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أنبيائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.

= Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18)

. — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (Iv). — Index: preface: 1r (only the last seven lines); Book I, 1r–22r; II, 22r–38v; III, 38v–49v; IV, 49v–63v; V, 63v–77r; VI, 77r–88r; VII, 88r–102v; VIII, 103r–117v; IX, 117v–131r; X, 131r–134v; XI, 134v–144r; XII, 144r–151r; XIII, 151r–160v. Book VII headed ‘al-maqāla al-khāmisa’. — No authorial colophon; dated scribal colophon. Extensive glosses in nearly all margins of ff. 1r–57r, only very few marginal corrections in the remainder of the codex.