Tehran, private library of Khān Malik Sāsānī, 31
[Black and white scans of the Ptolemaic part only.]
no clear date on the available scans; dated 607/1210-11 (Nashriyya), 617/1220-21 also possible (Kunitzsch, n. 11).
Or.:unknown; unknown scribe.
Prov.:an ownership statement by Makkī ibn Muḥammad ibn Shams al-Dīn ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Zayn al-Dīn (p. 0), dated 1158/1745 elsewhere in the manuscript (Nashriyya), and twice his seal (p. 0); an ownership statement by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAlī ibn Muʾayyid, dated 910/1504-1505 (Nashriyya). The manuscript number given is that assigned by Nashriyya.
Cod.:
paper, 0+47 pp. (only the Ptolemaic part; we follow the pagination by Kunitzsch with European-Arabic numerals; no catchwords; quire numbers). A single clear naskh hand; mostly dotted ductus, no shaddas or hamzas, occasional tashkīl. Numerous diagrams. Codex worm-eaten and with considerable moisture damage, text nonetheless legible. 17 lines per page.
Cont.:
mathematics and astronomy. —
Bibl.:
Nashriyya 5 (1968), pp. 114–115; GAS VFuat Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums. Vol. V: Mathematik bis ca. 430 H., Leiden: Brill, 1974, p. 170; Paul Kunitzsch, ‘The Second Arabic Manuscript of Ptolemy’s Planisphaerium’, Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 9 (1994), pp. 83–89, esp. pp. 85–86.
pp. 1–47 |
\1\ قال إنّه لمّا كان من الممكن يا سورا وممّا ينتفع به في أبواب كثيرة أن يوجد في بسيط مسطّح الدوائر التي تقع في الكرة المجسّمة كأنّها مبسوطة. — \47\ ولا يكون في الأبعاد التي توجد على غير هذا المثال اختلاف. = Ptolemy, Kitāb Tasṭīḥ basīṭ al-kura (A.6.1). — |
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