Kitāb al-Majisṭī; كتاب المجسطي

Alternate Title:

Majisṭī

Contributor:

Ibn al-Qursunah al-Isrāʼīlī (associated name)

Name:

Ptolemy, active 2nd century

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1381

Description:

An extensive treatise on Aristotelian astronomy, considering the motion of the stars and planets in a spherical, geocentric universe.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Aḥmad ibn Mubārak Luṭf Allāh, Muḥammad al-Raʼīs and Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Ḥayy ibn ʻAbd al-Kabīr al-Kinānī al-Ḥasanī (series of notes, f. 1r).; Formerly owned by Imam Aḥmad ibn Mubārak Lutfullāh, Muḥammad al-Raʼīs and Imam Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Kathīr al-Kinānī (note by Misjo Rinijo or Misiyo Riniyo, probably Monsieur Regnault, a French ambassador, note dated 1922, f. 1v).; Offered in A.H. 1330/1912 (‘547 〈lunar〉 years after the date of copying’) by ‘the Sharīf’, probably Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Ḥayy b. ʿAbd al-Kabīr al-Kittānī al-Ḥasanī, an Idrīsī sharīf, as a present to Eugène Regnault (d. 1933), French plenipotentiary minister in Tangier, probably on the signature of the Treaty of Fez (30 March 1912) as a result of which Morocco became a French protectorate, or on his departure in 1913 from his position in Morocco (front endleaf recto, back endleaf verso) (José Bellver).; Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 1998.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.; Aḥmad ibn Mubārak Luṭf Allāh, former owner.; Muḥammad al-Raʼīs, former owner.; Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Ḥayy ibn ʻAbd al-Kabīr al-Kinānī al-Ḥasanī, former owner.; Regnault, Eugène, -1933, former owner.; Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs268.html; Video orientation: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/2025261; The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278

Subject:

Astronomy -- Early works to 1800; Astronomy

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, 14th century; Manuscripts, Medieval; codices (bound manuscripts); diagrams; treatises; tables (documents); Annotations (Provenance)

Physical Description:

i, 174, i leaves : paper; 280 x 215 (220 x 145) mm bound to 280 x 225 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (f. 1r).; Foliation: Paper, 174; [1-37, 50-101, 124-145, 145-152, 101-124, 154-185]; modern foliation in pencil, correcting previous foliation in pencil, lower center recto.; Layout: Written in 36 long lines.; Script: Written in maghribī script by Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Salāmah al- Sinhājī al-Muhājirī?, an astronomer (colophon, f. 185r).; Decoration: Diagrams, tables, titles, headings, and selected words in red throughout.; Watermark: Similar to Piccard, Axe, no. 788 (Florence, 1379).; Binding: Red leather with flap (Type II); blind-stamped central mandorla and double frame of straight rules; gold-tooled around the central stamp and small, gilt-stamped corner decorations; plain paper doublure.; Origin: Copied in Saragossa [Sarqusṭah] Spain in Jumādá al-Ākhirah A.H. 783 (September 1381 CE) for Ibn al-Qursunuh al-Isrāʼīlī, astronomer to Pedro IV of Aragon (colophon, f. 185r).; Many edges and corners of leaves mended with paper.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 268

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)