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Royal MS 16 A VIII
- Record Id:
- 040-002402986
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001598.0x0000f0
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023840808.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 16 A VIII
- Title:
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Taḥrīr kitāb al-majisṭī تحرير كتاب المجسطي
Ptolemy بطلميوس
Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad
طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
- Scope & Content:
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The Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168), in the annotated edition (تحرير) of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). This was the most influential and enduring astronomical text to have survived from the ancient world and its Arabic translation, and al-Ṭūsī's annotated edition in particular, had an immense impact on the medieval world view in both Christian and Islamic lands.
The text is divided into thirteen chapters (مقالات) further subdivided into sections (فصول), and contains numerous diagrams and tables.
Contents:
- Chapter One (المقالة الأولى; ff. 2r-23r);
- Chapter Two (المقالة الثانية; ff. 23r-39v);
- Chapter Three (المقالة الثالثة; ff. 39v-51v);
- Chapter Four (المقالة الرابعة; ff. 51v-67v);
- Chapter Five (المقالة الخامسة; ff. 67v-85r);
- Chapter Six (المقالة السادسة; ff. 85r-100v);
- Chapter Seven (المقالة السابعة; ff. 100v-114v);
- Chapter Eight (المقالة الثامنة; ff. 115r-130v);
- Chapter Nine (المقالة التاسعة; ff. 130v-150r);
- Chapter Ten (المقالة العاشرة; ff. 150v-155v);
- Chapter Eleven (المقالة الحادية عشر; ff. 155v-169r);
- Chapter Twelve (المقالة الثانية عشر; ff. 169r-178v);
- Chapter Thirteen (المقالة الثالثة عشر; ff. 178v-191v).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-9):
أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير وولي كلّ ميدانه
وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية وأصلّي على عباده المخصوصين
بالعناية والدراية سيّما على محمد وآله الموسومين بالنبوة والولاية
المنقذين من كلّ عماية وغواية وبعد فقد كنت برتبه (؟) من الزمان
عان ما على أن أحرّر لنفسي ولطلبته العلم من الإخوان كتاب المجسطي
المنسوب إلى بطلميوس القلوذي الذي هو الدستور العظيم لأصحاب
صناعة الهيئة والتنجيم تحريرًا لا يفوته مقاصد ذلك الكتاب النظرية
ومناهجه العليّة ...
Ends (f. 191v, lines 5-10):
... وأقول وإذ وفقني
الله تعالى أيضًا لا تمام ما قصدته وإنجان ما وعدته
فلا قطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصليًّا
على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم
أنبيائه والبردة من آله وأحبّائه
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002402986 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 16 A VIII : Taḥrīr kitāb al-majisṭī تحرير كتاب المجسطي Ptolemy بطلميوسṬūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1290]/040-002402986
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. iv+192+iv
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000001598.0x0000f0
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 15th-16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Physical characteristics:
Material: Paper (beige with some light red leaves)
Dimensions: 199 x 123 mm leaf [127 x 59 mm written]
Foliation: Pagination in pencil of even-numbered pages in Western Arabic numerals (above) and British Museum foliation in pencil (below)
Ruling: none visible; 23 lines per page; vertical spacing 18 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with headings, tables and figures in gold and some table text in red
Decoration: Text area on all pages bordered in gold; frontispiece in blue, green, red, black and gold (f. 2v)
Binding: British Museum binding in brown leather with gilt-tooled double border and decorations on edges of boards; initials M.B. (Museum Britannicum) gilt-tooled on left board; marbled paper pastedowns
Condition: Excellent; some water damage and foxing towards back of volume
Marginalia: Interlinear Latin glosses in pencil (ff. 1v-2r)
Seals: f. 1r
- Custodial History:
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- Semi-legible seal, undated (f. 1r);
- A note reading 'This booke belonged to Sultan Ahmed, ye Turkish Empr, and cost about an 100 crownes at ye [?] first' (f. 1r).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Finding Aids:
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Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum 1846-71), Item 391, pp. 187
- Publications:
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Edition of Greek original:
- Claudii Ptolemaei Opera quae exstant omnia, vol. 1, pt 1, Syntaxis mathematica. Libros I-VI continens, ed. by Johan Ludvig Heiberg (Leipzig: Teubner, 1898)
Translation of Greek original:
- Ptolemy's Almagest, trans. by G.J. Toomer (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998)
Studies:
- Kunitzsch, Paul, Der Almagest: die Syntaxi Mathematica des Claudius Ptolemaus in arabisch-lateinischer Überlieferung (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1974)
- Ragep, F. Jamil, 'Ṭūsī: Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī' in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Thomas Hockey et al., eds., (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 1153-55
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)