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

[Colour scans of the body text without covers or binding.]

Collection of 4 works: Arabic. Date:

undated; 10^th/16^th century (Marʿashī & Ḥusaynī).

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; titles and chapter headings bold; mostly dotted ductus, no diacritics. 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. 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 (Marʿashī & Ḥusaynī); 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-mawḍiʿawji-hā (28r-30v); Ptolemaica (30v-31v); anonymous, Hādhihi ṣifat āla ṣaghīrat al-qadr […] [possibly ʿUmar ibn Sahlān al-Sāwī, Risāla fī ālat al-raṣd al-falakiyya, see http://www.alwaraq.net/Core/dg/dg_topic?ID=2558] (32v-39r); list of plants used for dyeing (39v). Blank: 32r.

Bibl.:

Maḥmūd Marʿashī and Aḥmad Ḥusaynī, 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, 20 2011, vol. XXXI, p. 217.

30v–⁠31v	\30v\ ليكن الخطّ المارّة بالمراكز لأوج البطئ الحركة ا ب ج د وليكن ا مركز البروج وب مركز المعدّل المسير 〈…〉 — \31v\ ولأنّ زاويتي لم قائمتان ووتري بد به متساويان فمربّعا دل ال مثل مربّعي هم ام لكنّه مربّعا دل هم متساويان فمربّعا اب ام متساويان وزاويتا وال هام متساويتان وذلك ما أربدنا أن نبيّن. = Muʾayyad al-Din al-ʿUrḍī, Muqaddima fī taṣḥīḥ burhān al-shakl al-rābiʿ min tāsiʿat al-Majisṭī (C.1.1258). — 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\ ليكن الخطّ المارّة بالمراكز لأوج البطئ الحركة ا ب ج د وليكن ا مركز البروج وب مركز المعدّل المسير 〈…〉 — \31v\ ولأنّ زاويتي لم قائمتان ووتري بد به متساويان فمربّعا دل ال مثل مربّعي هم ام لكنّه مربّعا دل هم متساويان فمربّعا اب ام متساويان وزاويتا وال هام متساويتان وذلك ما أربدنا أن نبيّن.

= Muʾayyad al-Din al-ʿUrḍī, Muqaddima fī taṣḥīḥ burhān al-shakl al-rābiʿ min tāsiʿat al-Majisṭī (C.1.1258). — 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.