Mashhad, Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 5387
finished on the afternoon of Wednesday, 27 Jumādā (?) l-ūlā 1041/Sunday (!), 21 December 1631 (colophon, 12v).
Or.:Mashhad, copied by Burhān al-Munajjimīn Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Tabrīzī (colophon, 12v), who very probably also copied MS
the common rectangular, black seal of the library, indicating the reception of this codex as an endowment and featuring the old name of the institution (9r). Two round, blind-stamped seals, probably of the library (ff. 1 and 4); several contemporary library stamps (front flyleaf, 1r, 4v, 11v and 12v). Old shelfmark: ‘160’ (1r). The manuscript originally formed part of a single codex together with MSS 5206, 5207, 5293, 5295, 5299, and 5388 (Gulchīn Maʿānī).
Cod.: paper, 12 ff. (foliated with Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil; old foliation from before the rebinding running from ‘13’ to ‘24’; catchwords). A single black nastaʿlīq hand written diagonally (Fihrist and Gulchīn Maʿānī: ‘in chalīpā’), starting either at the top right or at the top left of the pages in an irregular way. Mostly dotted ductus; no vowel marks, some shaddas, hardly any hamzas. Chapter titles rubricated; abjad numerals in the main text not highlighted. Diagrams mainly in the margins and often trimmed, with red lines and black geometrical points. Codex in good condition; moisture stains in the margins and folds; binding sometimes reinforced with pasted paper slips. Dimensions: 25.2×16.8 cm, written area: 19×11.2 cm; 25–27 lines per page. Cardboard covers (Gulchīn Maʿānī). Type III binding.
Cont.: astronomy. —
Bibl.: Fihrist-i kutub-i Kitābkhāna-yi mubāraka Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, vol. III, Mashhad: Ṭūs, 1926 (1345 Hijra), pp. 349–350 (riyāḍī, no. 160); 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. 426–427 (no. 345); 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. XXVIII, p. 132 (no. 1).
1r–12v
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\1r\ = al-Khāzimī, Ikhtiṣār al-Majisṭī (C.1.13)
. — TITLE: Kitāb al-Majistī min Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Khāzimī (1r). — |
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