Kitāb Baṭlamyūs fī al-ta‘līm al-ma‘rūf bi-l-Majisṭī naqala Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn كتاب بطلميوس في التعليم المعروف بالمجسطي نقل إسحق بن حنين Ptolemy بطلميوس [148r] (308/498)
The record is made up of Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. iii+239+iii. It was created in 615. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.
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Books Seven to Thirteen of the Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD c 90-c 168), thought to have been translated by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (AD c 809-873), and corrected by Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī (AD 826-901). The book title on f. 199v names the translator as Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn, the son of Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq. This manuscript calls the text the Kitāb fī ta‘līm (كتاب في التعليم; ' Book on Instruction '). This text was the most influential and enduring astronomical text to have survived from the ancient world, and its Arabic translation had an immense impact on the late antique and medieval world view in both Christian and Islamic lands.
The manuscript was completed on 3 Sha‘bān 615 (25 October 1218; see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. f. 239v, line 9, transcribed below). The text is defective at the beginning, missing the first folio, and a further folio is missing after f. 84. The quires were rearragned to restore their correct order on 24 July 1884.
Contents:
- Book Seven (defective at beginning; ff. 1r- 26r ?);
- Book Eight (ff. 27v-51r);
- Book Nine (ff. 51r-86r);
- Book Ten (ff. 86r-116v);
- Book Eleven (ff. 117r-161v);
- Book Twelve (ff. 162r-199r);
- Book Thirteen (ff. 199v-239v).
The text contains numerous diagrams and tables. Folio 230r has been left blank; folio 27 is only of half length and its recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side has been left blank.
Begins (defective, f. 1r, lines 1-5):
تصوير هذين المعنين جميعًا بما كان عنده فيهما من الأمور الظاهرة إلّا أن
ما حصل له من ذلك في الزمان الأطول هو بالحدس والتقريب أشبه منه
بالعلم الحقيقي وذلك من قبل أن ما وقع إليه من أرصاد من كان قبله الكواكب
الثابتة كانت يسيرة جدًا ويكاد يكون إنما كانت للأرصاد التي دوّنها أرسطلس
وطيمارخاس ...
Ends (f. 239v, lines 2-7):
وأستدلنا جميع ما يحتاج إليه في أن رشد إلى علمه في هذا الكتاب بقدر منهي (؟)
علمي ومبلغ رلي (؟) إلا الشاذ منها بقدر ما أعاننا الزمان الذي تناهى
أنت على وجود ما يحتاج إلى وجوده من ذلك وتقديم ما يحتاج إلى تقديمه
وتصحيحه منه وبقدر ما يكون ما دونّاه من ذلك نافعًا في هذا العلم
من غير أن يلتمس به الكثير والأقصاد فقد يليق والحسن أن يجعل هذا
آخر الكتاب بحمد الله وعونه وتأييده
Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 239v, lines 8-10):
تمت المقالة الثالثة عشرة بحمد الله وعونه وتمامها نك جميع الكتاب
وذلك في الثالث من شعبان من سنة خمس عشرة وستمائة
وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل
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- Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. iii+239+iii
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 250 x 167 mm leaf [196 x 119 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil (pre-1884 foliation cancelled and replaced)
Ruling: Misṭarah; 21 lines per page; vertical spacing 11 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black; red used only for labels in tables
Decoration: Numerous diagrams and tables
Binding: British Museum binding of red leather
Condition: Excellent; light foxing, minor water damage in margins does not affect legibility; some worm damage repaired in places
Marginalia: Some marginalia in a maghribī hand
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