[Colour photographs of textblock and covers.]
Collection of 14 works: Arabic.
Date:
undated, before 633/1235-6.
Or.:
unknown, several unknown scribes.
Prov.:
bought by Yaḥyā b. Muḥammad Najm al-Dīn b. al-Lubūdī in Damascus in 633/1235-6 (f. 1r). Another statement of ownership, dated 838/1434-5 (1r). A short administrative note, dated 996, and a note of donation by Darwīsh Ḥasan Ānī (1v). Old shelfmarks: ‘3140’ and ‘A7’ (Ir).
Cod.: paper, III+200+IIa ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil; an older foliation with Hindu-Arabic numerals, and a crossed-out pagination with Arabic-European numerals; a further older foliation by quire for ff. 81r–187r; no catchwords). Three different hands. First hand (1v-80r): brown naskh, partially dotted ductus. Second hand (81v–188r, including the Ptolemaic work): black naskh, mostly dotted with occasional tashkīl. Third hand (189v–200r): brown naskh, mostly dotted with occasional tashkīl. All hands without hamzas or shaddas. Numerous diagrams with lines and letters in black, some added later in pencil (78v–79r). Two inserted smaller leaves that are not part of the surrounding work (ff. 125–126). Codex in very good condition; occasional minor moisture stains, cover heavily damaged. Dimensions: unknown; mostly 23 lines per page. Brown leather cover with golden frames. Type III binding, previously Type II (traces of the flap on ff. IIIr–1r).
Cont.: mathematics, astronomy, cosmology. — Index: conjuration (IIIv); table of contents (1r); Apollonius, Kitāb fī Qaṭʿ al-khuṭūṭ ʿalā l-nisab (1v–80r); anonymous note and planetary diagram (80v); al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham, Fī Ṣūrat al-kusūf (81v–100v); Ibn al-Haytham, Fī Ḥarakat al-qamar (100v–107r); Ibn al-Haytham, Fī stikhrāj samt al-qibla (107r–115r); Ibn al-Haytham, Fī Masʾala handasiyya (115v–120r); Ibn al-Haytham, Fī stikhrāj irtifāʾ al-quṭb ʿalā ghāyat al-taḥqīq (120v–127v, with an unrelated anonymous fragment on the inlaid ff. 125r–126v); Ibn al-Haytham, Fī Aḍwāʾ al-kawākib (127v–131v); Ibn al-Haytham, second book of Taṣḥīḥ al-aʿmāl al-nujūmiyya (132v–162r); Ptolemaica (162v–184v); Ḥumayd b. Ḥusayn al-Ḥāsib, Maʿrifat samt al-qibla (185r–186v); Ibn al-Haytham, Fī stikhrāj aʿmidat al-jibāl (187r–188r); al-Kindī, Risāla fī l-Madd wa-l-jazr (189v–198r); al-Kindī, Risāla fī ʿIllat al-lawn al-lāzuwardī lladhī yurā fī al-jaww fī jihat al-samāʾ (198v–200r). Blank: 81r, 126v, 132r, 188v, 198r, 200v.
Bibl.: Joannes Uri, Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ codicum manuscriptorum orientalium, videlicet Hebraicorum, Chaldaicorum, Syriacorum, Aethiopicorum, Arabicorum, Persicorum, Turcicorum, Copticorumque catalogus. Pars prima, Oxford: Clarendon, 1787, p. 190 (no. dccclxxvi); Alexander Nicoll and Edward B. Pusey, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum orientalium Bibliothecae Bodleianae. Pars secunda. Arabicos complectens, Oxford: Clarendon, 1835, p. 599; 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}. Fihrist. Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World: https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/manuscript_4139.
162v–184v
\162v\ [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 في طباع جميع الناس. — \184v\ وهذا آخر ما نقوله في كتاب المناظر وهو الخبر الذي نختمّ فيه هذه المقالة وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل تمّت المقالة.
. — Title: Maqāla li-l-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥasan b. al-Haytham fī l-shukūk ʿalā Baṭlamyūs (162v). Index: author’s preface, 162v–163r; on the Almagest, 163r–180r; on the Planetary Hypotheses, 180r–182v; on the Optics, 183r–184v. Incomplete, several folios missing between ff. 182v and 183r, corresponding to pp. 50–65 of the edition in Sabra & Shehaby. — Undated scribal colophon stating that the text was copied from a copy of an autograph draft (dustūr) and collated against it (184v). Only a few marginal corrections and additions; no glosses.
