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Qom, Kitābkhānah-yi ʿumūmī-yi Ḥaḍrat-i Āyat Allāh al-ʿuẓmā Marʿashī Najafī, 12889

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Collection of 4 works: Arabic. Date:

undated; 10^th/16^th c. (Marʿashī Najafī).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

ownership statement by Mullā Mahdī, dated Rabīʿ al-thānī 1104/December 1691-January 1692, next to a rectangular Shiite seal dated 1137 (39r). Repeated ownership statement by ʿAbd al-Razzāq Bughāyirī (d. 1953–54) (Ir, 20r, 23v, 26v, 30r, 38r, 39r). Modern library stamps (e.g., Ir–v, 12v, 23v, 39r).

Cod.: paper, I+39 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil; catchwords). A single nastaʿlīq hand in black; mostly dotted ductus without diacritics; titles and chapter headings bold. Beautiful diagrams of astronomical instruments in red, green and yellow in the first treatise; simple geometrical figures in black in the second and third (=Ptolemaic) treatises; diagram descriptions and labels in black. Codex in very good condition; minor stains at the top of all folios; last folio damaged at the outer margins and restored, without affecting the reading. Dimensions: 20×11 cm, written area 14×6½ cm; 18 lines per page.

Cont.: geometry, astronomy. — Index: Muʾayyad al-Dīn al-ʿUrḍī, Kayfiyyat al-arṣād (1r–28r, beginning missing); Muʾayyad al-Dīn al-ʿUrḍī, Fī stikhrāj mā bayna markazay al-shams wa-mawḍiʿ awji-hā (28r–30v); Ptolemaica (30v–31v); anonymous, Hādhihi ṣifat āla ṣaghīrat al-qadr …, possibly ʿUmar b. Sahlān al-Sāwī’s Risāla fī ālat al-raṣd al-falakiyya (32v–39r); list of plants used for dyeing (39v). Blank: 32r. The first three works by al-ʿUrḍī are also included in MS Ankara, Üniversitesi, Ismail Saib 5092.

Bibl.: Maḥmūd Marʿashī Najafī, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi buzurg-i Ḥadrat-i Āyatallāh al-ʿUẓmā Marʿashī Najafī, vol. XXXII, Qom, 2004 (1383 H.S.), pp. 682–686; FankhāMuṣṭafā Dirāyatī, Fihristgān-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Īrān (Fankhā), 45 vols, Tehran: Library, Museum and Documentation Center of The Islamic Consultative Assembly, 2011–13 1390, vol. XXXI, p. 217.

30v–⁠31v	\30v\ [title] ليكن الخطّ المارّة بالمراكز لأوج البطئ الحركة ا ب ج د وليكن ا مركز البروج وب مركز المعدّل المسير — \31v\ ولأنّ زاويتي ل م قائمتان ووتري ب د ب ه متساويان فمربّعا د ل ا ل مثل مربّعي ه م ا م لكنّه مربّعا د ل ه م متساويان فمربّعا ا ل ا م متساويان وزاويتا و ا ل ه ا م متساويتان وذلك ما أربدنا أن نبيّن. [diagram] = Muʾayyad al-Din al-ʿUrḍī, Muqaddima fī taṣḥīḥ burhān al-shakl al-rābiʿ min tāsiʿat al-Majisṭī (C.1.20) . — Title: Muqaddima nāfiʿ fī taṣḥīḥ burhān al-shakl al-rābiʿ min tāsiʿat al-Majisṭī (30v, partially in the margin). — No colophon; three marginal corrections in the main hand.

30v–⁠31v

\30v\ [title] ليكن الخطّ المارّة بالمراكز لأوج البطئ الحركة ا ب ج د وليكن ا مركز البروج وب مركز المعدّل المسير — \31v\ ولأنّ زاويتي ل م قائمتان ووتري ب د ب ه متساويان فمربّعا د ل ا ل مثل مربّعي ه م ا م لكنّه مربّعا د ل ه م متساويان فمربّعا ا ل ا م متساويان وزاويتا و ا ل ه ا م متساويتان وذلك ما أربدنا أن نبيّن. [diagram]

= Muʾayyad al-Din al-ʿUrḍī, Muqaddima fī taṣḥīḥ burhān al-shakl al-rābiʿ min tāsiʿat al-Majisṭī (C.1.20)

. — Title: Muqaddima nāfiʿ fī taṣḥīḥ burhān al-shakl al-rābiʿ min tāsiʿat al-Majisṭī (30v, partially in the margin). — No colophon; three marginal corrections in the main hand.