MS. A. Walker 4 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts A. Walker Collection

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Translation of the Almagest of Ptolemy, 2nd cent by Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn, 830 or 31-910 or 11

Author: Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn, 830 or 31-910 or 11

Title: Translation of the Almagest of Ptolemy, 2nd cent.

Revised by Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī, d. 901 , in the recension of Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 207

[EA 100] [revd. by Beeston]

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 106 ff.

History

Origin: Before 1669. [early 17th cent.?] CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker, d. 1831.

Presented to the Bodleian Library by Sir William Walker in 1845.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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