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Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, O Nova 550

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Collection of five works: Arabic. Date:

pp. 155–328 completed between 7 Jumādā l-ūlā/1 February (p. 186) and 10 Ju〈mādā l-thāniya〉/6 March 1304/1887 (p. 328); pp. 1–151 completed between 24 Jumādā l-thāniya/20 March (p. 46) and 20 Dhū l-qaʿda/10 August 1304/1887 (p. 151).

Or.:

unknown; copied by Ibrāhīm b. Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad al-Sūsī l-Maghribī. The scribe states in a gloss on Abū Jaʿfar’s commentary on the Thamara that he had inspected a witness of the Tetrabiblos in the version by al-Biṭrīq/ʿUmar b. al-Farrukhān on 21 Jumāda l-ūlā 1304/15 February 1887 (p. 229), a work which he later copied (pp. 1–151) and added to the already existing part of the collection (pp. 155–328).

Prov.:

a stamp of the ‘Bibl〈iotheca〉 Regi〈ae〉 Univ〈ersitatis〉 Upsal〈iensis〉’, with acquisition no. ‘1924/31’ (p. 330). The manuscript was ‘one of ten Arabic MSS acquired by the Library at the suggestion of H. S. Nyberg, at the time residing in Cairo, from Mr. Abdel Ghany Shehab, Cairo’ (Platform ALVIN). Also referred to as ‘Zetterstéen 203’.

Cod.: brownish paper, II+330 pp. (paginated with Hindu-Arabic numerals with Cairene characteristics in pencil at the centre top of rectos; p. 2 numbered as ‘1’; catchwords). Main hand: irregular naskh with heavy maghribī influence (even stronger in the titles), at times sloppy and with considerably varying density of text. Fully dotted ductus with many tanwīns, occasional vowels and hamzas, rare v-shaped shaddas. Dark red ink for titles, subtitles and formulaic expressions; overlining in dark red and black; purple ink instead of red on pp. 128–142; black only on pp. 143–151; red for the main text from p. 318 onwards. Page numbers, indexes and glosses added by a second naskh hand (black ink and pencil). Inconsistent use of abjad numerals on pp. 155–207. Codex in good condition; some ink smudges and rubbings occasionally affecting the readability, especially on the first pages. Dimensions: 228×174 mm, written area: 195×115–120 mm; mostly 18 lines per page. Greenish leather cover, two blind-stamped golden frames with floral motif, diagonal lines and corner pieces, golden medallion with floral motif in the centre (vertical, twice the same pattern). Type II binding.

Cont.: astrology. — Index: table of contents of the following work (pp. II–1); Ptolemaica (pp. 2–151); table of contents of the remaining works (pp. 152–153); Pseudo-Aristotle, Kitāb fī Asrār al-nujūm (pp. 155–186); Ptolemaica (pp. 187–207); Ptolemaica (pp. 208–304); Kitāb Ūṭīqūs (i.e., Pseudo-Eutocius of Ascalon) mufassir kitāb Baṭlīmyūs (pp. 305–328; not Ptolemaic, cf. Bezza, p. 271); five astrological chapters not listed in the tables of contents (pp. 329–330). Blank: pp. I, 154.

Bibl.: Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen, Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek zu Uppsala, 2 vols, Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1930–1935, vol. I, pp. 94–96 (no. 203); Giuseppe Bezza, ‘Intorno ai primi commentatori del Quadripartitum tolemaico: Il commento ascritto ad Eutocio d’Ascalona’, MHNH 9 (2009), pp. 265–271. — Platform ALVIN: https://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.jsf?pid=alvin-record:153633 (with additional information and scans).

pp. 2–⁠151 Images	\p. 2\ هذا كتاب الأربعة لبطليميوس فسّره عمر بن الفرحان (كذا) الطبريّ في شهر شوّال سنة ستّة وتسعين مائة بعد الهجرة ١٩٦ وكان الذي صدّر به كتابه هذا أن قال رحمه الله إنّا لمّا رأينا اختلاف علم النجوم من كثرة ما أفسده المفسدون من الكتب واستغلاق ما فسّدوا منها — \p. 151\ وأختم به كتابي هذا على أصحّ ما بلغه علمي وتجربتي وأحسن ما يفعل القول فيه إن شاء الله وبالله التوفيق. = Ptolemy, Kitāb Baṭlīmūs al-arbaʿ (tr. al-Biṭrīq/ʿUmar b. al-Farrukhān) (A.2.1) . — Title: Kitāb al-Arbaʿa li-Baṭlīmyūs (p. 2). — Additional title: Kutub al-Arbaʿa li-Baṭlamyūs fī l-qaḍāʾ ʿalā dalīl al-nujūm (p. 151). — Index: translator’s preface, pp. 2–3; Book I, pp. 3–46; II, pp. 47–86; III, pp. 87–119; IV, pp. 120–151. — Translator’s preface dated Shawwāl 196/June-July 812; translator’s colophon. Dated scribal colophons for Books I, II, and IV; undated scribal colophon for Book III. Some glosses and traces of collation by both hands. The second hand restored pp. 3–4 on a folio added at a later stage, possibly because the ink in the original text was considerably smeared (cf. pp. 2, 5). This manuscript preserves the unique copy of the translator’s preface to the al-Biṭrīq/ʿUmar translation.
pp. 187–⁠207	\p. 187\ هذا كتاب الثمرة لبطليموس المسمّى صد كلمة وهي مائة كلمة مأثورة عنه. قال بطليموس قد قدّمنا لك يا سوري كتابًا فيما تؤثرة النجوم والكواكب في تركيب — \p. 207\ وإن لم يكن سائرًا فإنّ الخارجيّ من حضرة الإقليم والله أعلم بغيبه وأحكامه. كملت كلمات بطليموس الموسومة بالثمرة. = Pseudo-Ptolemy, Kitāb al-Thamara (B.1.1) , version with 102 verba. — Title: Kitāb al-Thamara li-Baṭlīmūs al-musammā Ṣad kalima wa-hiya miʾat kalima maʾthūra ʿan-hu (p. 187). — Index: introduction, p. 187; 99 verba, pp. 187–207. — Scribal colophon dated 11 Jumādā l-ūlā 1304/5 February 1887. A few traces of collation, a single gloss by the second hand on p. 192. Second of verbum 1’s three parts skipped; verbum 21 before verbum 20; verbum 74 skipped both in text and numbering. Verba numbering in abjad numerals (more rarely Hindu-Arabic) and jumping from 79 to 100 due to the confusion of fāʾ and qāf.
pp. 208–⁠304	\p. 209\ [formulae] أمّا بعد فإنّ حكم الله لا يتبدّل وسلطانه العليّ لا يتحوّل و (كذا) وقضاؤه حتم لا يردّ ولا ينتقل وقد جعل الله تبارك وتعالى بحكمته الباهرة وقدرته الظاهرة للحركات العلويّة في الكائنات السفليّة آثارًا تحقّقها الراصدون وأفعالًا دوّنها الأقدمون. — \p. 304\ قال أبو جعفر أحمد أحمد (كذا) بن يوسف رحمه الله هذه آخر الأبواب الذي تحصل فيها جميع كتاب كلمات الثمرة لم يخل الترتيب بحرف منها ولا قصر على الاستفاء للغرض المقصود إليه. = Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad b. Yūsuf, Tafsīr Kitāb al-Thamara (C.3.1) , version with verba sorted by Ibn al-Kammād. — Title: Tafsīr Kitāb al-Thamara li-Baṭlamyūs (p. 208). — Additional title: Kitāb Kalimāt al-Thamara (p. 304). — Index: Ibn al-Kammād’s introduction, pp. 208–209; chapter index, pp. 209–210; commentator’s introduction, pp. 210–211; Pseudo-Ptolemy’s introduction, p. 211; 100 verba intertwined with the commentary, sorted in eight chapters, pp. 211–304 (chapter I, pp. 211–220; II, pp. 220–231; III, pp. 231–242; IV, pp. 242–247; V, pp. 247–252; VI, pp. 252–283; VII, pp. 283–297; VIII, pp. 297–304). — Ibn al-Kammād’s colophon (attributed to Abū Jaʿfar); scribal colophon dated 8 Jumādā l-thāniya 1304/4 March 1887. Verbum numbers written out in full and starting from 1 for every new chapter. A few traces of collation by the main hand, some erased marginalia (e.g., pp. 219, 222, 226); glosses by both hands; a trimmed marginal note on p. 221.