PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Jerusalem, National Library of Israel, Ar. 222

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]
Collection of four works: Arabic.  Date:

ff. 9v–43r completed on Sunday, 27 Muḥarram 〈12〉67/1 December 1850 (41r, 42v, 43r); ff. 1r–8v copied by the same hand.

Or.:

Cairo; copied by ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm b. al-Marḥūm al-Shaykh (?) Ḥasan ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Tafahnāwī (8v, 43r); ff. 1r–8v were copied in the presence of Yaḥyā Efendi Hakīm (8v). This manuscript was copied from MS Cairo, Dār al-kutub, mīqāt Muṣṭafā Fāḍil 200, since it includes all four works copied by different hands in that manuscript (although in a different order) as well as its glosses and notabilia notes. The exemplar was in al-Kutubkhāna al-khidīwiyya al-Miṣriyya in Cairo by the time the present manuscript was copied.

Prov.:

an ownership statement by Ḥasan Nuṣrat (?) Efendi, known as al-Ṭawbjī, dated 4 Ṣafar 〈1〉306/10 October 1888 in Asyūṭ, written over an erased statement.

Cod.: paper, 43 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil; catchwords). A clear bold black naskh hand; fully dotted ductus with several vowels and a few sukūns and shaddas. Red ink for chapter beginnings, formulaic expressions, Hindu-Arabic numerals and the text of Pseudo-Ptolemy’s verba (numbered in abjad numerals). Text framed in red. Codex in good condition; binding loose and reinforced with paper slips, some smudges. Dimensions: 228×163 mm; 23 lines per page. Slightly damaged cover in çarkuşe binding with paper over paper pasteboards, decorated with a regular geometric pattern in yellow, red and black. Type III binding.

Cont.: astrology. — Index: Sahl b. Bishr, Risāla fī l-Awqāt (1r–8v); Ptolemaica (9v–41r); extracts from a commentary on Muḥammad al-Zakī l-Ghaznawī, Kitāb Kifāyat al-taʿālīm fī aḥkām al-tanjīm (41v–42v); a chapter Fī maʿrifat sāʿāt al-bust (42v–43r). Blank: presumably 8v–9r and 43v (not included in the scans).

Bibl.: National Library of Israel: https://www.nli.org.il/en/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH002905341/NLI for the Ptolemaic work, https://www.nli.org.il/en/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH002905260/NLI for the first work.

9v–⁠41r

\9v\ وبعد يقول مولانا المعظّم وسيّدنا الأعظم الصاحب المكرّم علّامة العرب والعجم سلطان المحقّقين أفضل المتأخّرين نصير الحقّ والدين برهان الإسلام والمسلمين محمّد ابن محمّد الطوسيّ — \41r\ ثمّ أنّه قال إذا سار فإّن الخارجيّ الذي يقصد الإقليم يعني من وسط الإقليم. فهذه تمام كلمات كتاب الثمرة وتفسيرها.

= Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Tafsīr Kitāb al-Thamara (Arabic–Arabic version) (C.3.5)

. — Title: Kitāb al-Thamara fī l-aḥkām (9v). — Additional title: Kalimāt Kitāb al-Thamara wa-tafsīru-hā (41r). — Index: dedicatory preface, 9v; Pseudo-Ptolemy’s introduction, 9v; 102 verba intertwined with the commentary, 9v–41r. — Commentator’s colophon; dated scribal colophon. Some marginal corrections and notes by the scribe. Part of verbum 98 (here: 100) and the whole commentary thereupon and verbum 99 (here: 101) skipped but then added in the margin by the scribe, along with the commentary on verbum 99 (here: 101), which is thus found twice (40v). Two long glosses on verbum 100 (here: 102), both copied from the exemplar, one originally from al-Ghaznawī’s Kitāb al-Kifāya (40v).