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Cairo, Dār al-kutub, riyāḍa Taymūr 141

Collection of eight works: Arabic. Date:

pp. 102–127 completed on 23 Rabīʿ al-thānī 1152/30 July 1739; remainder of the manuscript undated, c. 1100/1700 (King).

Or.:

Maghreb (King); unknown scribes.

Prov.:

an oval stamp by Aḥmad Taymūr Pāšā dated 1340/1921-2 (p. 1). The last items listed in the table of contents on p. 1 are not in the manuscript but coincide with parts of MS Cairo, Dār al-Kutub, riyāḍiyyāt Taymūr 139; hence, it is possible that the two manuscripts were once bound together (King).

Cod.: paper, 170 pp. (paginated with Hindu-Arabic numerals at the centre top; flyleaves not recognisable on the scans; catchwords). Seven different maghribī hands, typically copying a single work each; additions by several maghribī and some naskh hands. Hand on pp. 129–144 (including the Ptolemaic work): fully dotted ductus, some ligatures, rare diacritics; red ink for titles, chapter beginnings, formulaic expressions and verbum numbering (in abjad notation). A carelessly drawn horoscope with abjad numerals in red (p. 142). The remainder of the manuscript includes tables, diagrams with abjad numerals, and magical shapes, mostly carelessly drawn. Dimensions: 20×14 cm; 23 lines per page for the Ptolemaic work. Codex in good condition; binding seemingly loose in multiple places.

Cont.: astrology and astronomy. — Index (building on King): table of contents with page references (p. 1); Abū Maʿshar, Kitāb al-Iqtirānāt wa-l-ittiṣālāt (pp. 2–22); Muḥammad b. Saʿīd al-Sūsī l-Maghrīthī, al-Mumtiʿ fī Sharḥ al-maqnaʿ (pp. 24–100); Abū Zayd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Fāsī, al-Maṭlab al-kabīr fī-mā yataʿallu bi-qaṣīdat al-shaykh Ibn Saʿīd (pp. 102–127); Ptolemaica (pp. 129–141); anonymous, al-Risāla al-jafriyya fī qirānāt al-milla al-ḥanafiyya wa-l-dawla al-tawḥīdiyya (pp. 141–144); anonymous, Ṣifat takhṭīṭ al-rukhāma al-mabsūṭa li-ʿarḍ lj m (pp. 146–156, probably for Fes); ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Tājūrī, Fī maʿrifat waḍʿ bayt al-ibra ʿalā l-jihāt al-arbaʿa (pp. 158–166); Alexander Dhū l-Qarnayn, Faṣl fī maʿrifat al-sana bi-l-ayyām al-sabʿa (pp. 166–167). Pages between the works filled with unidentified short texts and poems. Blank: pp. 168, 170, flyleaves.

Bibl.: David A. King, Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʿilmiyya al-maḥfūẓa bi-Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣriyya, 2 vols, Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organisation, 1981–1986, vol. I, pp. 592–593; vol. II, p. 653.

pp. 129–⁠141	\p. 129\ كتاب الثمرة لبطليموس ترتيب الفقيه أبي العبّاس أحمد بن يوسف الكمّاد. قال بطليموس قد قدّمنا لك يا سورى كتبًا فيما تؤثّره الكواكب في عالم التركيب — \p. 141\ وإن اتّصل صاحب الطالع بكوكب في وسط السماء قذف الدواء ولم يستقرّ. تمّ كتاب الثمرة لبطليموس. = Pseudo-Ptolemy, Kitāb al-Thamara (B.1.1) , version with verba sorted by Ibn al-Kammād. — Title: Kitāb al-Thamara li-Baṭlīmūs tartīb al-faqīh Abī l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Yūsuf al-Kammād (p. 129). — Additional titles: Kitāb al-Thamara li-Baṭlīmūs (p. 141); Kitāb al-Thamara li-Baṭlamyūs (later marginal note, p. 129). — Index: author's preface, p. 129; 100 verba sorted in eight chapters: Chapter I, pp. 129–130; II, pp. 130–131; III, pp. 131–133; IV, p. 133; V, pp. 133–134; VI, pp. 134–139; VII, pp. 139–140; VIII, pp. 140–141. — Undated scribal colophon. A few marginal corrections by the scribe. Verba numbered in-text with abjad numerals or numbers written out in full, starting from 1 in each chapter. Verbum 10 of Chapter 7, corresponding to verbum 39 in the non-sorted version, was skipped in the numbering and an abbreviated version of its text incorporated in the preceding verbum.

pp. 129–⁠141

\p. 129\ كتاب الثمرة لبطليموس ترتيب الفقيه أبي العبّاس أحمد بن يوسف الكمّاد. قال بطليموس قد قدّمنا لك يا سورى كتبًا فيما تؤثّره الكواكب في عالم التركيب — \p. 141\ وإن اتّصل صاحب الطالع بكوكب في وسط السماء قذف الدواء ولم يستقرّ. تمّ كتاب الثمرة لبطليموس.

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

, version with verba sorted by Ibn al-Kammād. — Title: Kitāb al-Thamara li-Baṭlīmūs tartīb al-faqīh Abī l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Yūsuf al-Kammād (p. 129). — Additional titles: Kitāb al-Thamara li-Baṭlīmūs (p. 141); Kitāb al-Thamara li-Baṭlamyūs (later marginal note, p. 129). — Index: author's preface, p. 129; 100 verba sorted in eight chapters: Chapter I, pp. 129–130; II, pp. 130–131; III, pp. 131–133; IV, p. 133; V, pp. 133–134; VI, pp. 134–139; VII, pp. 139–140; VIII, pp. 140–141. — Undated scribal colophon. A few marginal corrections by the scribe. Verba numbered in-text with abjad numerals or numbers written out in full, starting from 1 in each chapter. Verbum 10 of Chapter 7, corresponding to verbum 39 in the non-sorted version, was skipped in the numbering and an abbreviated version of its text incorporated in the preceding verbum.