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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Cairo, Dār al-kutub, falsafa (W) 2837

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Collection of five works: Arabic. Date:

Sunday, 27 Dhū l-qaʿda 1361/6 December 1942 (p. 34).

Or.:

Cairo, copied by Muḥammad Ḥamdī from MS Cairo, Dār al-kutub, akhlāq Taymūr 290 (p. 34).

Prov.:

acquisition number ‘991/1943’ (p. 1).

Cod.: modern yellowish paper, II+34+IIa pp. (paginated with Hindu-Arabic numerals at the top centre; catchwords). A single black naskh hand with angular features; fully dotted ductus, hamzas written when without carrier, no vowels. Titles in red. References to the page numbers of the exemplar (pp. 302–331) are added in the margins. No diagrams. Codex in excellent condition. Dimensions: 255×185 mm; 21 lines per page.

Cont.: astrology and philosophy. — Index: Ptolemaica (pp. 1–4); fragment of an unidentified work (pp. 4–5); some chapters on philosophy by Abū Sulayman ⟨al-Sijistānī⟩ (pp. 5–11, defective); Min Kitāb Ikhlāṣ ikhtiṣār al-Iskandar ā-b-h-m-n (read Abī Hayyān), but corresponding to sections of his al-Muqābasāt (pp. 11–18, defective); an unidentified philosophical risāla (pp. 19–34, beginning and end missing). Blank: pp. I–II, Ia–IIa.

Bibl.: Fuʾād Sayyid, Fihrist al-makhṭūṭāt. Nashra bi-l-makhṭūṭāt allatī qtanat-hā al-Dār min sanat 1936 – 1955, 3 vols, Cairo: Maṭbaʻat Dār al-Kutub, 1961–1963, vol. I, p. 431; GAS VIIFuat Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums. Vol. VII: Astrologie – Meteorologie und Verwandtes bis ca. 430 H., Leiden: Brill, 1979, p. 157. Not included 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.

pp. 1–⁠4

\p. 2\ قال بطليموس قد يقدر المنجّم على دفع كثير من أفعال النجوم إذا قال عالمًا ... — \p. 4\ وقال أحمد إنّ الفلاسفة يرون أنّ المحبّة والنفضة سنّتان للنفس يمنعانها من حسن الاستبراء.

= Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Dāya, Tafsīr Kitāb al-Thamara (C.3.1)

, selection from a version with 100 verba. — Title: Min Kitāb al-Thamara li-Baṭlīmūs sharḥ Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Kātib (pp. 1 and 4). — Index: title page (p. 1); selection of verba (pp. 2-4). — Undated scribal colophon. A single marginal correction. This manuscript contains Pseudo-Ptolemy’s verba 5 and 9 with their respective commentaries as well as the beginning of the commentary on verbum 12. Defective as copied from a defective exemplar.