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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi Millī-yi Īrān, 7450

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Collection of two works: Arabic and Persian. Date:

undated, ‘probably 13^th/19^th c.’ (Anwār).

Or.:

‘probably India’ (Anwār); copied by an unknown scribe.

Prov.:

a magic square (1r); two smudged, illegible octagonal stamps (1r). The manuscript matches the microfilm scans of an unnumbered manuscript allegedly held at the Sulṭān al-Madāris Library in Lucknow and still lacking the round Millī Library stamps found on ff. 1v, 40r and 56v. Additional shelfmark: ‘138’ (front flyleaves).

Cod.: paper, 56 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil; traces of a pagination in pencil at the top centre of most pages; catchwords in the bottom centre). A single neat black naskh hand; mostly dotted ductus with occasional diacritics. Pseudo-Ptolemy’s verba overlined in red, with numbering written out in full. First page with a headpiece for the basmala in gold, red and green and interlinear spaces filled in gold (1v). Codex in bad condition; damage by moisture and insects throughout, ink corroding the paper; numerous pasted paper slips and strips of tape, occasionally affecting the readability. Dimensions: 25.3×16.5 cm, written area: 17.2×9.5 cm; 19 lines per page on ff. 1v–52v, 10 lines on ff. 53r–56v. Red leather covers over marbled paper pasteboards, decorated with a golden floral motif. Type III binding.

Cont.: astrology. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–52v); Abū Maʿshar, Kitāb al-Nukat (53r–56v, with an incomplete interlinear Persian translation). Blank: none.

Bibl.: Parwīn Mutawārī Sūrakī, Fihrist-i nusakh-i khaṭṭī-yi Sāzmān-i Asnād wa Kitābkhāna-yi Millī-i Jumhūrī-yi Islāmī-yi Īrān, Vol. XXVII: Az shumāra-yi 7301 tā 7600, Tehran: Kitābkhāna-yi Millī, 2016 (1395 H.S.), pp. 218–220.

1v–⁠52v Images	\1v\ [title] قال قد قدّمنا لك يا سورس كتبًا فيما يؤثّر الكواكب في عالم التركيب كثير المنفعة في تقدمة المعرفة — \52v\ وإن لم يكن يسير فهو يخرج من ذلك الإقليم وهذه آخر كلمات كتاب الثمرة وتفسير ذلك وقد أورد {…} الكتاب. تمّ كتاب الثمرة المسمّى بالروميّة نطرومسطا ومعناه المائة كلمة. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Tafsīr Kitāb al-Thamara (Arabic–Arabic version) (C.3.5) . — Title: Kitāb al-Thamara li-Baṭlīmūs al-ḥakīm tamām al-Kutub al-Arbaʿa allatī allafa-hā fī l-aḥkām li-Sūrus talmīdhi-hi (1v). — Index: Pseudo-Ptolemy’s introduction, 1v; commentary on the introduction, 1v–2r; 102 verba intertwined with the commentary, 2r–52v. — Commentator’s colophon with Greek title; no scribal colophon. The Arabic version of the commentary on Pseudo-Ptolemy’s introduction is unique to this manuscript. Numerous glosses, mostly in Persian and including several horoscopes with abjad numerals.

1v–⁠52v

Images

\1v\ [title] قال قد قدّمنا لك يا سورس كتبًا فيما يؤثّر الكواكب في عالم التركيب كثير المنفعة في تقدمة المعرفة — \52v\ وإن لم يكن يسير فهو يخرج من ذلك الإقليم وهذه آخر كلمات كتاب الثمرة وتفسير ذلك وقد أورد {…} الكتاب. تمّ كتاب الثمرة المسمّى بالروميّة نطرومسطا ومعناه المائة كلمة.

= Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Tafsīr Kitāb al-Thamara (Arabic–Arabic version) (C.3.5)

. — Title: Kitāb al-Thamara li-Baṭlīmūs al-ḥakīm tamām al-Kutub al-Arbaʿa allatī allafa-hā fī l-aḥkām li-Sūrus talmīdhi-hi (1v). — Index: Pseudo-Ptolemy’s introduction, 1v; commentary on the introduction, 1v–2r; 102 verba intertwined with the commentary, 2r–52v. — Commentator’s colophon with Greek title; no scribal colophon. The Arabic version of the commentary on Pseudo-Ptolemy’s introduction is unique to this manuscript. Numerous glosses, mostly in Persian and including several horoscopes with abjad numerals.