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Collection of more than 30 works: Arabic and Persian.
Date:
copied between Saturday, 15 Dhū l-ḥijja 1307/2 August 1890 (first Ptolemaic work, p. 23) and 25 Rabīʿ al-awwal 1309/29 October 1891 (p. 396); second Ptolemaic work undated.
Or.:
copied at least partially in Mashhad (pp. 38, 362) by Muḥammad Ṭāhir al-Mashhadī (pp. 91, 116, 362); he copied the codex on request by Mīrzā ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Mudarris of Mashhad and dedicated it to Rukn al-Dawla, who was appointed as the ruler of Khurasan by the Qājār Shāh, Nāṣir al-Dīn (introduction, marginal note by Ṭihrānī on p. XVIII). Significant parts of this codex were copied from a single exemplar which was split up into the current MSS Mashhad, Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 5206, 5207, 5293, 5295, 5299, 5387 and 5388 (cf. 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) and see below).
Prov.:
a note dated 4 Shawwāl 1386/16 January 1967 by the scholar and politician Sayyid Jalāl al-Dīn Ṭihrānī (1896–1987) stating that he received the codex in 1312 H.S./1933-4 from ʿAbd al-Amīr Rashīdī Ḥāʾirī, who had received it from his father Ḥājj Shaykh Muḥammad b. al-Shaykh Māzandarānī and later became the Iranian ambassador in Tunisia (p. XXI); the codex was endowed to the library by Ṭihrānī together with MSS Mashhad, Āstān-i Quds, 12185, 12225 and 12281 in Murdād 1361/July-August 1982 (library slip).
Cod.: paper, XXI+397 pp. (paginated with Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in red in the upper margins, from p. 100 onwards frequently with zeroes omitted or extra zeroes added, and with an unnumbered page after p. 112 and after p. 311; catchwords). A single black naskh hand; nearly fully dotted ductus with tanwīns, occasional vowel marks, frequent hamzas and some shaddas. Headings for book chapters in the first Ptolemaic work rubricated; Book IX of the first Ptolemaic work erroneously headed ‘al-maqāla al-ʿāshira’, as in the exemplar MS Mashhad, Āstān-i Quds, 5387; headings of verba in the second Ptolemaic work highlighted in red up to p. 142, then in blue. Abjad numerals not highlighted. Diagrams with red lines and blue geometrical points in the first Ptolemaic work. Codex modestly decorated; red, goldish, and blue frames for the main text, space for marginal annotations surrounded by a thin goldish frame. Codex in very good condition; some stains in the margins. Dimensions: 33.1×20.2 cm; 31 lines per page. Modern covers with marbled surface. Type III binding.
Cont.: astronomy, physics, psychology, mathematics, mysticism, fiqh, geography, philosophy, kalām, and logic. — Index: introduction (p. XVIII, in Persian); table of contents listing 34 works (pp. XVIII–XIX); Ptolemaica (pp. 1–23); Muḥammad Amīn b. Mīrzā Jān al-Ḥijāzī, Risāla fī l-Asṭurlāb (pp. 24–29); anonymous, Risāla fī Maʿrifat al-alwān (pp. 30–31); anonymous, Risāla fī Taḥqīq al-quwwā l-insānī (pp. 31–34); anonymous, Risāla fī Stikhrāj al-muḍmar (pp. 34–38); five excerpts from a work on arithmetic by ʿImād al-Dīn Yaḥyā b. Aḥmad al-Kāshī (pp. 38–43); excerpt from Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd Shams al-Dīn Āmulī’s Nafāʾis al-funūn fī ʿarāʾis al-ʿuyūn (pp. 44–48, in Persian); Maḥmūd b. ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Shabistarī, Mirʾāt al-muḥaqqiqīn (pp. 48–59, in Persian); extract from an unidentified work on astrology and astronomy with numerous tables (pp. 60–83; in Persian); anonymous, Masāʾil mutafarriqāt min sharḥ al-lumaʿāt (pp. 85–91, in Persian); Muḥammad Shīrīn Shams Maghribī, Jām-i jahān namā (pp. 91–96, in Persian); Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Ilahī al-Ardabīlī, Kashf-i asrār (pp. 97–106, in Persian); Mīr Muḥammad Muʾmin b. Mīr ʿAlī Ḥusaynī Astarābādī, Risāla fī bayān al-awzān (pp. 106–116, in Persian); Sharaf al-Dīn ʿAlī Yazdī, Risāla-yi ʿaqd-i anāmil (pp. 116–117, in Persian); Ptolemaica (pp. 118–152); Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, Kitāb al-Ikhtiyārāt al-ʿAlāʾiyyah (pp. 155–184); Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Risāla-yi bīst bāb dar maʿrifat-i asṭurlāb (pp. 188–201, in Persian); ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Qūshjī, Risāla dar ʿilm al-ḥisāb (pp. 204–219, in Persian, incomplete); anonymous, taḥqīq fī l-ḥikma (p. 225); anonymous, Risāla dar ʿilm-i shāna-bīnī (pp. 226–227, in Persian); Abū Maʿshar, Fī Ttiṣālāt al-kawākib (pp. 227–234); an extract from an unknown mathematical work (pp. 234–237); al-Bīrjandī, Āthār-i haft iqlīm (pp. 238–269, in Persian, incomplete); Maḥmūd b. Yaʿqūb al-Shīrāzī, Qidam wa-ḥudūth al-ajsām (pp. 271–273, in Persian); ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Jurjānī, Risāla fī l-maʿqūl wa-l-manqūl (pp. pp. 273–280, in Persian); Sharaf al-Dīn ʿAlī Yazdī, Ḥilal al-muṭarriz (pp. 281–294, in Persian); Ismāʿīl b. Ḥassan al-Jurjānī, Khuffī al-ʿalāʾī (pp. 297–325, in Persian and incomplete); anonymous, Risāla fī maʿrifat sinī l-mawālīd fī-l taḥwīl (pp. 329–362); Abū l-Barakāt Hibat Allāh b. ʿAlī b. Malkā al-Baghdādī, Risāla fī Ruʾyat al-kawākib bi-l-layl lā bi-l-nahār (pp. 363–364, ascribed to Ibn Sīnā); Muḥammad Taqī b. Muḥammad al-Fārsī, Risāla fī ḥisāb al-qamar (p. 364); Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Nīshābūrī, Risāla-yi Muʿammayāt (pp. 366–395, in Persian); table listing 98 divine names of God (pp. 395–396). Blank: pp. I–II, III (except for a small note), IV–XVII, XX, 84, 153–154, 185–187, 202–203, and furthermore, except for the double frames, pp. 220–224, 270, 295–296, 326–328, 365, and 397.
Bibl.: Ghulām ʿAlī ʿIrfāniyyān, Fihrist-i kutub-i khaṭṭī-i Kitābkhāna-yi Markazī-i Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, Vol. X: Riyāḍiyyāt, Mashhad: Kitābkhāna-i Markazī-i Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 1984 (1362 H.S.), pp. 239–254 (no. 627); 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. XIX, p. 364 (no. 65); vol. XXXI, p. 445 (no. 1), etc.
pp. 1–23
\p. 1\ [title][formulae] قال أبو عبد اللّه محمّد بن أحمد الخازمي وبعد فإنّ كتاب المجسطي لبطلميوس الذي هو عمدة النوع التعليميّ وقانون تحقيق الأرصاد لما كان متعيق (كذا) العبارة مع الأسهاب رأيت 〈أن〉 اختصره ينصل ألفاظه إلى 〈ما〉 يستعمله المحدّثون — \p. 23\ في رسم الجداول في حساب العروض في الجدول في ظهور الخمسة المتحيّر〈ة〉 واختفائها القول فيه كما تقدّ〈م〉 في الكواكب الثابتة.
. — TITLE: Kitāb al-Majisṭī min Abū (sic) ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Khārizmī (sic) (p. 1). — Additional Titles: Risālat al-Majisṭī li-Abī ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad Khārizmī (table of content, p. XVIII); Ikhtiṣār Kitāb al-Majisṭī li-Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Sʿaīdī al-Khārizmī (colophon and p. XXI). — Index: author’s preface, pp. 1–2; Book I, pp. 2–5; II, pp. 5–8; III, pp. 8–10; IV, pp. 10–11; V, pp. 11–14; VI, p. 14; VI, pp. 14–15; VIII, p. 15; IX, pp. 15–18; X, pp. 18–19; XI, p. 19; XII, pp. 19–21; XIII, pp. 21–23. — Dated scribal colophon (p. 23). Few marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe. Four marginal annotations in the hand of Tihrānī (pp. 1, 2 and 23), for example erroneously attributing the work to al-Bīrūnī.
pp. 118–152
\p. 118\ وبعد چنين گويد المخدوم المولاء المعظّم الصاحب الأعظم علّامة العالم مفخر بنى آدم أفضل المتأخّرين نصير الحقّ والملّة والدين \p. 152\ — اين انست تمامى كلمات ثمره و تفسير آن و در آخر كتاب باين عبارت آورده و اللّه أعلم بالصواب وقد تمّت بعون اللّه وحسن توفيقه.
. — TITLE: Kitāb Thamarat Baṭlīmūs li-Sūrus talmīdhi-hi fī l-nujūm (p. 118). — Additional Titles: Kitāb al-Thamara li-Baṭlīmūs al-ḥakīm tamām al-Kutub al-Arbaʿa allatī allafa-hā fī l-aḥkām li-Sūrus talmīdhi-hi (p. 118); Kalimāt-i Thamara wa tafsīr-i ān (p. 152). — Index: preface, p. 118; Pseudo-Ptolemy’s introduction, p. 118; commentary on the introduction, pp. 118–119; 102 verba intertwined with the commentary, pp. 119–152. — No scribal colophon. Marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe, indicated by siglum ṣḥ.
