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Qom, Kitābkhānah-yi ʿumūmī-yi Ḥadrat-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. 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-mawḍiʿawji-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 Ankara, University, 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, 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.1.20) . — 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\ 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.1.20)

. — 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.