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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 the restored margins (1r). A hardly legible basmala (inner back cover).

Cod.: paper, I+87 ff. (foliated with Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals; catchwords). A single clear nastaʿlīq hand in black; almost fully 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. Codex in bad condition; minor water damage on the last folios, some repairs with pasted paper slips, margins of f. 1 replaced; flyleaf and f. 1 glued onto the inner edge of f. 2r, and similarly f. 87 on f. 86; one folio after f. 1v lost before the manuscript was foliated, f. 77 lost after the foliation, and an unknown number of folios lost at the end of the codex; binding becoming loose. Dimensions: 22×11.5 cm; 15 lines per page. 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, 2011–13 1390, 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. [toc] — \87v\ 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 b. al-Ṣalt/Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq) (A.2.2)

, with Thābit’s glosses integrated. — Index: preface, 1v; Book I, 1v–23r; II, 23r–45r; III, 45r–76v; IV (incomplete), 76v–87v. — End of chapter I.1 and beginning of chapter I.2 missing due to a lost folio; in chapters III.11 and III.12 pages left empty for missing text; chapter III.14 incomplete due to another lost folio; 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.