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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi markazi-i Dānishgāh-i Tehrān, 830

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]
Incomplete single work: Arabic. Date:

undated.

 Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

 Prov.:

a square seal with a partially smudged Persian ownership statement under another erased statement (1r); a faded oval seal together with an illegible ownership statement (1r). An instruction for the preparation of medicine deriving from the Kifāya-yi Manṣūrī (Manṣūr b. Ilyās, 8–9th/14–15th c.) and the invocation yā kabīkaj on a piece of paper pasted in the restoration of the codex (1r). A hardly legible basmala (inner back cover).

Cod.: paper, I+87 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals, Persian forms, skipping ‘77’; catchwords). A single clear nastaʿlīq hand in black; mostly dotted, frequent final hamzas and shaddas, maddas mostly indicated, frequent use of lām-alif mukhaffafa. Chapter titles rubricated, paragraph beginnings partially highlighted with red overlines. Mostly undotted abjad notation in red ink. Textual dividers inserted in red, especially in Book IV. No tables or diagrams. Dimensions: 22×11.5 cm; 15 lines per page. Codex in good condition; minor water damage on the last folios, some pages repaired with pasted paper slips; binding becoming loose, one folio after f. 1v lost (before the manuscript was foliated). Green leather cover over paper pasteboards, heavily damaged, decorated with a blind stamped medallion with pendants. Type III binding.

Cont.: astrology. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–87v); a Persian note on an inserted slip of paper (87bis). Blank: 64v–65v, 67r–68r.

Bibl.: Muḥammad Taqī Dānishpazhūh, Fihrist-i Kitābkhāna-i ihdāʾī-i Āqā Sayyid Muḥammad Mishkāt bih Kitābkhāna-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, vol. III/2 [=4], Tehran: Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 1953 (1332 H.S.), pp. 824–825; FankhāMuṣṭafā Dirāyatī, Fihristgān-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Īrān (Fankhā), 45 vols, Tehran: Library, Museum and Documentation Center of The Islamic Consultative Assembly, 20 2011, vol. II, pp. 863–864.

1v–⁠87v

\1v\ كتاب الأربع مقالات في الأحكام لبطلميوس القلوذي ترجمة حنين بن إسحق إصلاح ثابت بن قرّة الحرّانيّ جمل ما في هذه المقالة من هذا الكتاب في القضاء من النجوم على الحوادث. الباب الأوّل في صدر الكتاب. — \87v\ وأمّا الزهرة وعطارد فيحدث عنهما ا[[لا]]شتراك في المعاش يكون بأسباب صناعة أو بسبب الموسيقى أو بأسباب كتب أو بأسباب النساء. وأمّا الزيادة والنقصان في قوّة المواصلة والهجران فينبغي أن يعلم من حال المواضع التي تؤخذ إذا قيست الأربعة المواضع الأولى الرئيسيّة وذلك أنّها إذا كانت.

= Ptolemy, Kitāb Arbaʿ maqālāt (tr. Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ṣalt/Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq) (A.2.3)

. — Index: authorial preface, 1v; Book I, 1v–23r; II, 23r–45r; III, 45r–77v; IV (incomplete), 77v–87v. — End of Chapter I.1/beginning of Chapter I.2 missing due to a lost folio; in Chapters III.11 and III.12 pages left empty for missing text; the text breaks off in the middle of Chapter IV.6. Glosses by Thābit b. Qurra to the first book were included in the main text. Minor marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe mostly indicated by sigla ṣ and ṣḥ. Some annotations in different hands.