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Najaf, Maktabat al-Imām al-Ḥakīm, 236

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

Book I finished on 25 Ramaḍān 1136/17 June 1724 (18r, next to the colophon), Book II on 8 Jumādā l-ūlā 1136/3 February 1724 (34v), Book III on 14 Ṣafar 1137/2 November 1724 (58v), and Book IV on 28 Rabīʿ al-awwal 〈1137〉/15 December 1724 (72v).

Or.:

Qazvin, Iran (34v, 72v); copied by Mīr Ibrāhīm b. Mīr Sayyid Muḥammad al-Qazwīnī l-Ḥusaynī (18r, 34v, 58v, 72v).

Prov.:

an erased statement dated 1239/1823-24 and an oval seal ‘ … Ḥasan Ḥusaynī’ (1v). Various recent endowment and library stamps all through the manuscript, some dated 1377/1957 (e.g., 1v, 35v, 58v).

Cod.: paper, 72 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals, with 19 skipped; catchwords). A single very clear nastaʿlīq hand; numerous final hamzas and shaddas, maddas mostly indicated, frequent use of lām-alif mukhaffafa. Reserved spaces for rubricated chapter titles and paragraph beginnings; empty spaces for missing abjad notation in the body text (making, for example, the list of terms on f. 15v useless). No tables or diagrams. Codex in acceptable condition; slightly damaged by insects, some moisture and ink stains; several pages repaired with pasted paper slips. Dimensions: 14.1×19.4 cm; 17 lines per page.

Cont.: astrology. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–72v); two pages with fragments of different texts on the obverse of book beginnings (35r, 59r). Blank: none.

Bibl.: GAS VIIFuat Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, vol. VII: Astrologie – Meteorologie und Verwandtes bis ca. 430 H., Leiden: Brill, 1979, p. 43. — Maktabat al-Imām al-Ḥakīm online catalogue: http://alhakeemlib.org (no. 2586).

1v–⁠72v	\1v\ كتاب الأربع مقالات في الأحكام لبطليميوس إصلاح حنين بن إسحق جمل ما في المقالة الأولى من هذا الكتاب في القضاء من النجوم على الحوادث. [toc] — \72v\ فإذا قد أتينا على القول في أمر المواليد على طريقة الجملة فأرى أنّه من الواجب أن أختم هذا الكتاب في هذا الموضع. = Ptolemy, Kitāb Arbaʿ maqālāt (tr. Ibrāhīm b. al-Ṣalt/Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq) (A.2.2) , without Thābit’s glosses. — Titles: Kitāb al-Arbaʿ maqālāt li-Baṭlamyūs al-Qalūdhī (18r); Kitāb Baṭlamyūs al-Qalūdhī (34r); Kitāb Baṭlamyūs fī l-qaḍāʾ bi-l-nujūm (58v); Kitāb Arbaʿ maqālāt al-Baṭlamyūs (?) fī aḥkām al-qaḍāʾ fī l-nujūm (72v).— Index: Book I, 1v–18r; II, 18v–34v; III, 35v–58v; IV, 59r–72v. — All books concluded by authorial and dated scribal colophons. Very few marginal corrections, indicated by siglum ṣ. Substantial glosses in the first part of the codex, quoting ʿAlī b. Riḍwān’s commentary (C.2.3).

1v–⁠72v

\1v\ كتاب الأربع مقالات في الأحكام لبطليميوس إصلاح حنين بن إسحق جمل ما في المقالة الأولى من هذا الكتاب في القضاء من النجوم على الحوادث. [toc] — \72v\ فإذا قد أتينا على القول في أمر المواليد على طريقة الجملة فأرى أنّه من الواجب أن أختم هذا الكتاب في هذا الموضع.

= Ptolemy, Kitāb Arbaʿ maqālāt (tr. Ibrāhīm b. al-Ṣalt/Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq) (A.2.2)

, without Thābit’s glosses. — Titles: Kitāb al-Arbaʿ maqālāt li-Baṭlamyūs al-Qalūdhī (18r); Kitāb Baṭlamyūs al-Qalūdhī (34r); Kitāb Baṭlamyūs fī l-qaḍāʾ bi-l-nujūm (58v); Kitāb Arbaʿ maqālāt al-Baṭlamyūs (?) fī aḥkām al-qaḍāʾ fī l-nujūm (72v).— Index: Book I, 1v–18r; II, 18v–34v; III, 35v–58v; IV, 59r–72v. — All books concluded by authorial and dated scribal colophons. Very few marginal corrections, indicated by siglum ṣ. Substantial glosses in the first part of the codex, quoting ʿAlī b. Riḍwān’s commentary (C.2.3).