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Mashhad, Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 5488

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and inside covers.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

around 1000/1600 (Gulchīn Maʿānī).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

few verses of a poem on God-given destiny, dated 21 Shawwāl 1134/4 August 1722 (145v); an illegible oval seal (1v); a note indicating that a certain Nāʾīnī donated the manuscript to the library in Murdad 1311/July-August 1932 (1r).

Cod.: tinted paper (yellow, orange, green and blue; flyleaves pink), I+145+I^a ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals, Persian forms; catchwords under- and overlined). A single clear nastaʿlīq hand in black. Final hamzas and maddas mostly indicated, few shaddas. Chapter titles and paragraph beginnings rubricated (on yellow tinted paper: substantial sulphurisation of lead contained in the ink); spaces for titles and formulaic expressions reserved, mostly from f. 40v onwards; specifications for the rubricator given in the inner margins, mostly in the fold. Mostly dotted abjad notation, rubricated in the main text (but omitted from f. 40v onwards). No tables or diagrams. Dimensions: 190×110 mm; 15 lines per page (misṭara imprints). Codex in good condition with light damage and some mold stains; some pages repaired with pasted paper slips, at times affecting the readability (e.g., f. 36). Previously bound in a Type II binding with fore-edge and envelope flap (cf. imprints on 145v); at present bound in a black leather cover (Gulchīn Maʿānī). Type III binding.

Cont.: astrology. — Index: notes on the Tetrabiblos on a slip of paper (pasted onto Ir); Ptolemaica (1v–145v).

Bibl.: Aḥmad Gulchīn Maʿānī, Fihrist-i kutub-i khaṭṭī-i Kitābkhāna-i Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, vol. VIII, Mashhad: Intishārāt-i Kitābkhāna-i Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 1971 (1350 H.S.), pp. 20–21 (incorrectly listed as MS 4588, which caused confusion in later reference works including Fankhā); FankhāMuṣṭafā Dirāyatī, Fihristgān-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Īrān (Fankhā), 45 vols, Tehran: Library, Museum and Documentation Center of The Islamic Consultative Assembly, 20 2011, vol. II, p. 864 (nos 4 and 5). Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī online catalogue: https://opac.razavi.ir/simwebclt/.

1v–⁠145v	\1v\ كتاب الأربع مقالات في الأحكام لبطليميوس القلوذي ترجمة حنين بن إسحاق إصلاح ثابت بن قرّة الحرّاني جمل ما في المقالة الأولى من هذا الكتاب في القضاء من النجوم على الحوادث. الباب الأوّل في صدر الكتاب. — \145r\ وملاؤمته لأجزاء الجزؤيّة على الأمر الملاوم بحسب الحدس الكائن \145v\ من النوع التعليميّ على امتزاج ذلك فإذا قد أتينا على القول في أمر المواليد على طريق الجملة فأرى أنّه من الواجب في هذا الموضع. = Ptolemy, Kitāb Arbaʿ maqālāt (tr. Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ṣalt/Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq) (A.2.3) . — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–37r; II, 37r–71r; III, 71r–118r; IV, 118r–145v. — Glosses by Thābit b. Qurra to the first book included in the main text. Minor marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe mostly indicated by siglum ṣ and ṣḥ. Some annotations (erased on f. 61r).

1v–⁠145v

\1v\ كتاب الأربع مقالات في الأحكام لبطليميوس القلوذي ترجمة حنين بن إسحاق إصلاح ثابت بن قرّة الحرّاني جمل ما في المقالة الأولى من هذا الكتاب في القضاء من النجوم على الحوادث. الباب الأوّل في صدر الكتاب. — \145r\ وملاؤمته لأجزاء الجزؤيّة على الأمر الملاوم بحسب الحدس الكائن \145v\ من النوع التعليميّ على امتزاج ذلك فإذا قد أتينا على القول في أمر المواليد على طريق الجملة فأرى أنّه من الواجب في هذا الموضع.

= Ptolemy, Kitāb Arbaʿ maqālāt (tr. Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ṣalt/Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq) (A.2.3)

. — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–37r; II, 37r–71r; III, 71r–118r; IV, 118r–145v. — Glosses by Thābit b. Qurra to the first book included in the main text. Minor marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe mostly indicated by siglum ṣ and ṣḥ. Some annotations (erased on f. 61r).