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Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Or. 352

Single work: Arabic. Date:

Thursday, 15 Rabīʿ al-awwal 893/28 February 1488 (238r).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

an erased Arabic ownership statement (1r). Ex-libris ‘Bibl. Caes. Med. Palat.’ (1v, 238v), i.e., the library of the De Medici grand dukes and its successor institutions, inherited and consolidated by the Holy Roman Emperor Grand Duke of Tuscany, Francis Stephan (d. 1765) (on the library’s history, see Anthony M. Cummings, Ms Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Magl. XIX, 164–167, Aldershot / Burlington: Ashgate, 2006, pp. 30–31). Some illegible notes on the inner front cover with the name ‘Vecchietti’ (the brothers Girolamo (d. 1588?) and Giovanni Battista (d. 1619) Vecchietti played a key role in Florence as merchants of oriental manuscripts from Egypt and Persia, cf. Robert Jones, Learning Arabic in Renaissance Europe (1505–1624), Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2020, pp. 22–24). Stamp of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (1v, 238v).

Cod.: polished oriental paper with visible fibres, 240 ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil at the bottom left of rectos; an earlier foliation from back to front in Arabic-European numerals at the top right of versos; no catchwords). One or two clear naskh hands with a slight tendency to nastaʿlīq. First part (1v–90v): a neat substantially dotted hand in dark ink; no vowels, numerous hamzas, occasional shaddas, maddas mostly indicated. Second part (91r–238r): possibly a second, faster naskh hand; barely dotted ductus, no vowels, no hamzas, very few shaddas, occasional maddas. Paragraph beginnings and abjad notation highlighted in red ink. No tables or diagrams. Dimensions: 17½×8½ cm; 11 lines per page (misṭara imprints). Paper in good condition; very few stains, minor water damage not affecting the readability. Bound in a leather binding (likely the original) decorated with a blind-tooled central mandorla filled with interlace, several frames. Type III binding.

Cont.: Astrology. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–238r).

Bibl.: Josephus Simonius Assemanus, Bibliothecae Medicae Laurentianae et Palatinae codicum mss. orientalum catalogus, Florence: Albiziano, 1742, p. 402.

1v–⁠238r	\1v\ كتاب الأربع مقالات في الأحكام لبطلموس القلوذي ترجمة حنين بن إسحاق إصلاح ثابت ابن قرّة الحرّاني جمل ما في المقالة الأولى من هذا الكتاب في القضاء من النجوم على الحوادث. [toc] — \238r\ فإذ قد أتينا على القول في أمر المواليد على طريق الجملة فأرى أنّه من الواجب أن أختم الكتاب في هذا الموضع. = Ptolemy, Kitāb Arbaʿ maqālāt (tr. Ibrāhīm b. al-Ṣalt/Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq) (A.2.2) , — Title: hadhihi (?) Arbaʿ maqālāt Baṭlamūs (240v). — Index: authorial preface, 1v; Book I, 1v–69v; II, 69v–123r; III, 123r–196r; IV, 196v–238r. — All books with undated authorial colophon, Book IV also with dated scribal colophon. Corrections by Thābit b. Qurra mentioned in the preface, but not found in the manuscript. Minor marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe, mostly indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Some annotations in different hands, mostly trimmed. An undated note of collation (235r, margin).

1v–⁠238r

\1v\ كتاب الأربع مقالات في الأحكام لبطلموس القلوذي ترجمة حنين بن إسحاق إصلاح ثابت ابن قرّة الحرّاني جمل ما في المقالة الأولى من هذا الكتاب في القضاء من النجوم على الحوادث. [toc] — \238r\ فإذ قد أتينا على القول في أمر المواليد على طريق الجملة فأرى أنّه من الواجب أن أختم الكتاب في هذا الموضع.

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

, — Title: hadhihi (?) Arbaʿ maqālāt Baṭlamūs (240v). — Index: authorial preface, 1v; Book I, 1v–69v; II, 69v–123r; III, 123r–196r; IV, 196v–238r. — All books with undated authorial colophon, Book IV also with dated scribal colophon. Corrections by Thābit b. Qurra mentioned in the preface, but not found in the manuscript. Minor marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe, mostly indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Some annotations in different hands, mostly trimmed. An undated note of collation (235r, margin).