Author
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī
Publication Date
6 Muḥarram 722 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IO Islamic 1148, ff 1v-63r
Record ID
vdc_100023667258.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
6 Muḥarram 722 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Notes
Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī's (AD 1201-1274) edition of the Arabic translation of the
Almagest
(Kitab al-Majsta'), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD c 90-c 168), thought to have been translated by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (AD c 809-873).
The copy was completed on 6 Muḥarram 722/25 January 1322, at Sulṭānīyah (in the Zanjan province in the northwest of modern Iran) by Ḥamzah ibn 'Alī ibn Ḥamzah al-Qazwīnī al-Bayhaqī, known as Sa‘d al-Khurāsānī (Hamza ibn Ali ibn Hamza al-Qazwini al-Bayhaqi, known as Saad al-Khurasani; see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
on f. 62r; transcribed below). Two notes next to the
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, both in the hand of the copyist, state that his copy was a copy of the author's own copy, and that he collated his copy in Muḥarram 723/January-February 1323, at Sulṭānīyah, in the Rashīdīyah Madrasah.
Almost no diacritical points are used, so the following transcriptions are imprecise.
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-5):
Praise be to Allah, the beginning of all principles, the end of all absent and the embodiment of all good and the guardian of all guidance.
After you have escaped from time, I decided to free myself and seek knowledge from the Brotherhood
Ptolemy القلوذي
Ends (f. 62r, lines )
... And I say that Allah does not fulfill all our intentions and fulfill our promises
On the verse and pray on all the saints, especially on the seal of the prophets and the leaders of the people and the speakers
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 62r, lines )
... There was a gap from recovery on the third day
They were among the sacred sanctuaries of the eighteenth, twentieth and seventeenth Hijri months in the city of Sultanate
The case of the merciful Hamza ibn Ali ibn Hamza al-Qazwini al-Bayhaqi, known as Saad al-Khorasani
To discover the results by investigating it is the answer
This text is followed by two short supplements (ff. 62v-63r), both relating to Ptolemy's
Almagest
. . . . The first is inscribed in the formation of the crown in the second chapter of the tenth article by al-Mujasti (
Fī tashakkul
al-zuharah and al-faṣl al-thānī and al-maqālah and al-‘āshirah and al-Majisṭī
, 'On the formation of Venus in Part two of Chapter ten of the
Almagest
'; f. 62v, line 1).
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Edition of original Greek text:
Claudii Ptolemaei Opera quae exstant omnia,. Vol. 1, pt 1, Syntaxis mathematica. Libros I-VI continens
, ed. by Johan Ludvig Heiberg (Leipzig: Teubner, 1898)
Claudii Ptolemaei Opera quae exstant omnia,. Vol. 1, pt 2, Syntaxis mathematica. Libros VII-XIII continens
, ed. by Johan Ludvig Heiberg (Leipzig: Teubner, 1903)
Translation of original Greek text:
Ptolemy's Almagest
, trans. by G.J. Toomer (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998)
Study of Arabic versions:
Kunitzsch, Paul,
Der Almagest: die Syntaxi Mathematica des Claudius Ptolemaus in arabisch-lateinischer Überlieferung
(Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1974)
