Descriptive Information

Title

تفسير ابي الحسن علي بن رضوان بن جعفر المتطبب لكتاب الاربعة بطلميوس القلودي في القضا بالنجوم على الحوادث

Transliterated Title

Tafsīr Abī al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Riḍwān ibn Jaʻfar al-mutaṭabbib li-Kitāb al-arbaʻah Baṭlamiyūs al-Qalawdī fī al-qaḍāʼ bi-al-nujūm ʻalá al-ḥawādith.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3517Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/5x21tj77c

Publisher

[1721]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1721

Format

Manuscript

Extent

257 leaves: paper ; 260 x 165 (182 x 105) mm.

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

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

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.

Discovery Information

Subject

Ptolemy active 2nd century—Tetrabiblos Arabic—Commentaries—11th century

Astronomy, Arab—11th century

Astrology, Arab—11th century

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

263

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fa8343e7-b335-489e-b9d7-1e1d514ea093/manifest

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