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Cairo, Dār al-kutub, ḥurūf Muṣṭafā Fāḍil 30

[Black-and-white microfilm scans of the textblock, colour scanned images of some pages; inspected by Flora Vafea in 2014.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

undated (1105/1694-5 on the microfilm fiche, not confirmed).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

an ownership statement by Ḥājj Ibrāhīm b. ʿAskarī (i.e., Ibrāhīm Paşa, viceroy of Egypt, d. 1848). An undecipherable statement bearing the number 2629, similar to others found in manuscripts from the Muṣṭafā Fāḍil collection. A partially faded seal of the Dār al-kutub. Old shelfmarks: ‘8573’ and ‘7589’ (all on f. 1r). The shelfmark is given as ‘30 m’ in Vollers & Ismat and GAS VII.

Cod.: paper, 9 ff. (unfoliated; catchwords). A single, quick naskh hand; fully dotted ductus, no vowels or shaddas, occasional hamzas. Red ink for qāla at the beginning of Ptolemy’s verba and for their numbering in the margins (in Hindu-Arabic numerals). A single table in black, carelessly drawn. Codex apparently in good condition; traces of damage, possibly moisture, on ff. 3v–4v. Dimensions: 20×15 cm, written area: c. 16×11 cm; 19 lines per page.

Cont.: astrology and onomancy. — Index: a table for onomancy (1r); Ptolemaica (1v–9v). Blank: none.

Bibl.: Karl Vollers and Ibrāhīm ʻIsmat, Fihrist al-kutub al-ʿarabiyya al-maḥfūẓa bi-l-Kutubkhāna al-khidīwiyya al-miṣriyya, vol. V, Cairo: Maṭbaʿa Uthmān ʿAbd al-Razzāq, 1890 (1308 H.), p. 340; Heinrich Suter, ‘Der V. Band des Katalogs der arabischen Bücher der viceköniglichen Bibliothek in Kairo. Aus dem Arabischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen versehen’, Zeitschrift für Mathematik und Physik. Historisch-literarische Abtheilung 38 (1893), pp. 1–24, 41–57, and 161–184, here p. 173; GAS VIIFuat Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, Vol. VII: Astrologie – Meteorologie und Verwandtes bis ca. 430 H., Leiden: Brill, 1979, p. 47 n. 1. Not in the catalogue by KingDavid A. King, Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʿilmiyya al-maḥfūẓa bi-Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣriyya, 2 vols, Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organisation, 1981–1986.

1v–⁠9v	\1v\ قال بطليموس لتلميذ مورس قد قدّمنا لك يا مورس كتبًا فيها توثراة (كذا) الكواكب في علم تركيب — \9v\ فإن لم يكن سائرًا فإنّ الخارجيّ من حضيرة الإقليم. = Pseudo-Ptolemy, Kitāb al-Thamara (B.1.1) , version with 102 verba. — Title: none. — Index: introduction, 1v; 96 verba, 1v–9v. — Undated scribal colophon. No marginalia or corrections. Verba numbered in the margin up to 26. Verba 23, 29–30, 76, 83, and 92 missing (as in London, BL, Or. 9206). Verba 28 and 33 mistakenly incorporated in the preceding verba. Verbum 97 before verba 95–96, as in al-Ṭūsī’s commentary (C.3.4).

1v–⁠9v

\1v\ قال بطليموس لتلميذ مورس قد قدّمنا لك يا مورس كتبًا فيها توثراة (كذا) الكواكب في علم تركيب — \9v\ فإن لم يكن سائرًا فإنّ الخارجيّ من حضيرة الإقليم.

= Pseudo-Ptolemy, Kitāb al-Thamara (B.1.1)

, version with 102 verba. — Title: none. — Index: introduction, 1v; 96 verba, 1v–9v. — Undated scribal colophon. No marginalia or corrections. Verba numbered in the margin up to 26. Verba 23, 29–30, 76, 83, and 92 missing (as in London, BL, Or. 9206). Verba 28 and 33 mistakenly incorporated in the preceding verba. Verbum 97 before verba 95–96, as in al-Ṭūsī’s commentary (C.3.4).