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Single work: Arabic.
Date:
undated.
Or.:
unknown; unknown scribe.
Prov.:
a damaged statement in black (p. I). Librarian’s notes in pencil (pp. I and 35); accession number ‘7407’ (inner front cover).
Cod.: paper, I+35+IIa pp. (paginated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil; catchwords). A single clear naskh hand in black; mostly dotted ductus, no hamzas or shaddas. Some section beginnings rubricated. Codex in acceptable condition; minor damage caused by insects at the top of some pages, barely affecting the text; all pages repaired with pasted paper slips, mostly in the folds and the upper corners. Dimensions: 25×14.5 cm; 25 lines per page, lines on some pages partially numbered in pencil (pp. 9, 18, 24, 28, 30, and 35).
Cont.: astronomy and optics. — Index: Ptolemaica (pp. 1–35).
Bibl.: Abdelhamid I. Sabra, N. Shehaby and I. Madkour, Ibn al-Haytham: al-Shukūk ʿalā Batlamyūs (Dubitationes in Ptolemaeum), Cairo: The National Library Press, 1971, pp. ix, ك, and م; Yūsuf Zaydān, Fihris makhṭūṭāt Baladiyyat al-Iskandariyya, Vol. I: Al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʿilmiyya (al-ṭabīʿiyyāt – al-riyāḍiyyāt – al-falak – al-ṭibb), Alexandria: Al-Hayʾa al-ʿāmma li-Maktabat al-Iskandariyya, 1996 (1417 AH), p. 369 (no. 417).
pp. 1–35
\p. 1\ [title] الحقّ مطلوب لذاته وكلّ مطلوب لذاته فليس يعني طالبه غير وجوده ووجود الحقّ صعب والطريق إليه وعر والحقائق منغمسة في الشبهات وحسن الظنّ بالعلماء طباع في جميع الناس — \p. 35\ وهذا آخر ما نقوله في كتاب المناظر وهو الحين الذي نختمّ فيه هذه المقالة تمّت مقالة ابن الهيثم في الشكوك على بطلميوس القلوذ.
. — Title: Qawl al-shaykh Abī ʿAlī l-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham fī l-shukūk ʿalā Baṭlamyūs (p. 1). — Additional title: Shukūk Ibn al-Haytham ʿalā Baṭlamyūs (p. I) — Index: preface, pp. 1–2; on the Almagest, pp. 2–19; on the Planetary Hypotheses, pp. 19–33; on the Optics, pp. 33–35. The copy is incomplete; see Sabra & Shehaby, p. ix. — Undated scribal colophon (p. 35). Only very few marginal notes and corrections, sometimes trimmed; no glosses. Note of collation.
