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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Cairo, Dār al-kutub, akhlāq Taymūr 290

[Black-and-white microfilm scans of the textblock; colour scanned images of the Ptolemaic section; inspected by Flora Vafea.]
Collection: Arabic. Date:

c. 600/1200 (King); 6th/12th c. (Sezgin).

Or.:

unknown; copied by an unknown scribe.

Prov.:

a collation statement (p. 189); an illegible stamp (p. 369).

Cod.: Oriental yellowish paper, 370 pp. (paginated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil in the top outer margin of each page; pp. 45–46, 55–56, 286–287, and 356–359 missing; all pages from 196 onwards numbered one too low, corrected only up to p. 235, so that from there on rectos have even numbers; some more pages lost before the insertion of the pagination, e.g., in the Ptolemaic work between pp. 303 and 304; catchwords, quire numbers in the top outer margin of the respective first rectos, middle of the quires marked with hamza in the same position). One single clear black naskh hand; mostly dotted ductus, some shaddas, hamzas only when without carrier, incidental vowels. Titles and textual dividers in red. No diagrams or tables. Some glosses and marginalia (occasionally trimmed) by the main scribe and at least one further naskh hand. Some ink stains not hindering the reading except on the last six pages; damaged margins restored; binding reinforced with paper slips. Dimensions: 25×16 cm; written area c. 19×11½ cm; 17 lines per page (Eastern misṭara imprints).

Cont.: philosophy and astrology. — Index: table of the works included in the collection, not written by the main copyist (pp. 5–6); Yaḥyā b. ʿAdī, Kitāb fī Tahdīb al-akhlāq (pp. 7–61; by al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham according to the edition in ʿA.R. Badawī, Dirāsāt wa-nuṣūṣ fī l-falsafat wa-l-ʿulūm ʿindā l-ʿArab, Bayrūt: al-Muʾassasa al-ʿarabiyya li-l-dirāsāt wa-l-nashr, 1981, pp. 183–211); Themistius, Qawl fī Tadbīr al-manzil (pp. 62–96); Risāla Dhamisṭiyyūs (i.e., Themistius) wazīr Āliyān (i.e., Julian the Apostate) (pp. 97–111); Risāla Aflāṭūn al-ḥakīm ilā Fū⟨r⟩fīriyūs fī ḥaqīqat nafī l-ghamm wa-ithbāt al-zuhd (pp. 112–123); a chapter entitled Qāla Fithāghūras (p. 123); Hermes Trismegistus, Risāla al-Maʿānī (pp. 124–189); a sketched basmala (p. 190); Mukhtaṣar Kitāb al-Akhlāq li-Jālīnūs (pp. 191–235); Min Maqāla li-Jālīnūs fī anna quwā l-nafs tawābiʿ li-mizāj al-badan (pp. 235bis–242); Mukhtaṣar Maqālat Jālīnūs fī l-ḥathth ʿalā taʿallum al-ʿulūm wa-l-ṣināʿāt (pp. 243–247); Mukhtaṣar Kitāb al-Tuffāḥa li-Suqrāṭ (pp. 248–267, defective); Ibn Sīnā, Risāla al-Ṭayr (pp. 270–276); fragments on Aristotle, allegedly by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (pp. 277–284); ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm Kafarṭābī, Risāla fī Tashrīḥ, possibly an extract from his Kitāb Tashrīḥ al-ʿayn (pp. 285–300); a short note (pp. 300–301); Ptolemaica (pp. 302–303); fragment of an unidentified work (p. 304); some chapters on philosophy by Abū Sulayman ⟨al-Sijistānī⟩ (pp. 304–310, defective); Min Kitāb Ikhlāṣ ikhtiṣār al-Iskandar Abī Hayyān, but corresponding to sections of his al-Muqābasāt (pp. 310–317, defective); an unidentified philosophical risāla, beginning and end missing (pp. 320–331); Min al-Maqāla al-ūlā min K. al-Tadbīr al-mutawahhid li-Abī Bakr al-Ṣāʾighb. Bājja⟩ (pp. 332–345); Min Kitāb al-Milla li-Abī Naṣr al-Fārābī (pp. 346–369, defective). Blank: pp. 1–4, 7, 268–269 (added folio), and 318–319 (idem).

Bibl.: David A. King, Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʿilmiyya al-maḥfūẓa bi-Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣriyya, 2 vols, Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organisation, 1981–1986, vol. I, p. 621; vol. II, pp. 652–654; GASFuat Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, 9 vols, Leiden: Brill, 1967–1984, vol. III, p. 138; vol. IV, p. 44; vol. VII, p. 157; Franco Martorello and Giuseppe Bezza, Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Dāya. Commento al Centiloquio Tolemaico, Milano / Udine: Mimesis, 2013, p. 35 .

pp. 302–⁠303

\p. 302\ ⟨…⟩ قال بطليموس قد يقدر المنجّم على دفع كثير من أفعال النجوم إذا كان عالمًا بطبيعة ما يؤثّر فيه الفعل. — \p. 303\ وقال أحمد الفلاسفة يرون أنّ المحّبة والبغضة سنتين للنفس بمعنانها (كذا) من حسن الاستبراء ||

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

, selection from a version with 100 verba, defective. — Title: Min Kitāb al-Thamara li-Baṭlīmūs sharḥ Aḥmad b. Yūsuf al-Kātib (p. 302). No colophon. No marginalia. The selection contains Pseudo-Ptolemy’s verba 5 and 9 with their respective commentaries as well as the beginning of the commentary to verbum 12. At least one folio is missing after p. 303.