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Subject(s)

• Ptolemy active 2nd century—Tetrabiblos Arabic—Commentaries—11th century [Browse]
• Astronomy, Arab—11th century [Browse]
• Astrology, Arab—11th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on Ptolemy's Quatripartitum or Tetrabiblos.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (fol. 257a).
• 23 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for "qāla" and headings. The headings are repeated in red on the margin. Thin dark cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible. Catchword on the verso of each leaf.
• Inscription in Roman script on a spine label, repeated on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover, and in red pencil on fol. 1a: "49Y".
• Copy completed in Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1133 [Jan. 1721] by Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn ... al-Ṭāliqānī in ... [Mach reads "Qazwīn"] (colophon, fol. 257a).
• Incipit: قال ابو الحسن على بن رضوان بن على بن جعفر المتطيّب قصدنا ان نشرح اقاويل الحكيم بطلميوس فى صناعة القضايا بالنجوم على الحوادث فنقول انّ القضا بالنجوم على الحوادث صناعة تنبى عن مبادى صادقة بالمكوّنات
• Explicit: واقف سقيم الزهرة بالحمل تحريط عطارد الحوت كر يط ه فهذا اشيآء قد شرحتها لك فانعم الله الكظر فيها وتاملها والله يهدى من يشآء الى صراط مستقيم

Binding note

Only the upper cover is extant: Red leather over paper pasteboard with guilloche outer border.Marbled paper pastedown.

Provenance

Ownership statement in the name of Muḥammad Ismāʻīl, dated 19 Rajab 1341 [March 7, 1923] on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 5050
• Ullmann, M. Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam, 1972, p. 337

Other format(s)

• Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
• Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

123986017

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