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Mashhad, Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 11521

Collection of nine works: Arabic. Date:

c. 13^th/19^th c. (Walāʾī).

Or.:

unknown, probably Persian; first two works copied by Burj ʿAlī al-Jurpādaqānī (colophon, 52v).

Prov.:

a seal by a certain Muḥammad Bāqir, dated 1102 (?)/1690-1 (1r); a statement mentioning Wednesday, 11 Ṣafar 1189/12 April 1775, as the date of birth of a certain Dāwud, with a horoscope diagram (53v). A very short excerpt from the Prayer of the Forty Idrīsid Names with corresponding abjad values (86v; see N. Wahid Azal, The Prayer of the Forty Idrīsid Names, online, 2017, p. 6). Two different hardly readable oval seals, both displaying the name ‘al-Ḥusaynī’, and a note in red nastaʿlīq mentioning the late ʿAlī Ḥasan b. Jaʿfar ʿAlī Ibrāhīm (1r). Sloppy notes and sketches of geometrical figures, partially probationes pennae (1r, 54r, 69v). The codex was donated to the library by Ḥasan Farīd Muḥsinī in Shahriwar 1354/August-September 1975 (library card on front doublure); contemporary library stamps (e.g., front flyleaves, 8v, 45r, 52v), partially blind-stamped (70r).

Cod.: paper, 130 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals [Persian variants] in pencil in the bottom right corner of versos; one unnumbered leaf after f. 114; catchwords). Five different hands. First hand (1v–52v): a large, clearly readable naskh; 14 lines per page. Second hand (54v–69r): a neat naskh; 16 lines per page. Third hand (70r–86r, including the Ptolemaic work): nastaʿlīq; almost fully dotted ductus, no vowel marks except for few fathatāns, no hamzas or shaddas, few maddas; abjad numerals overlined; diagrams with lines in red and labels in black; 18 lines per page. Fourth hand (87r–126v): nastaʿlīq; 16 lines per page. Fifth hand (127v–130v): a dense nastaʿlīq; 20 lines per page. Codex in good condition; frequent stains (e.g., 1r–6v, 68r–69v, 129r–130v), slight water damage in the upper margins of ff. 122–126; margins of ff. 1, 53, 105 and 108 restored with different paper. Dimensions: 19×12 cm. Blackish leather covers with a central mandorla, two pendants and eight separate frame elements, each blind-tooled with floral motifs. Type III binding.

Cont.: mathematics and astronomy. — Index: later table of contents (second flyleaf); Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Kitāb al-Ukar li-Thāwdhūsiyūs (1v–45r); Autolycus, Kitāb fī l-Kura al-muḥarrika, tr. Thābit b. Qurra (45v–52v); Muḥammad Bāqir al-Yazdī, Fī Masāḥat Saṭḥ al-Kura (54v–69r); Muʾayyad al-Dīn al-ʿUrḍī, Kayfiyyat al-arṣād (70r–83v, acephalous); Muʾayyad al-Dīn al-ʿUrḍī, Fī stikhrāj mā bayna markazay al-shams wa-mawḍiʿ awji-hā (83v–85r); Ptolemaica (85r–86r); ʿAlī b. Aḥmad al-Nasawī, Handasat al-nujūm (87v–112r; possibly an anonymous abridgement); Abū Sahl al-Kūhī, excerpt from Birkār al-tāmm (112r–126v); Shams al-Dīn al-Khafrī, excerpt from Ḥall mā lā yanḥall (127v–130v). Blank: 53r, 127r, flyleaves, numerous empty unnumbered folios between some of the works.

Bibl.: Maḥdī Wilaʾī, Fihrist-i kutub-i khaṭṭī-i Kitābkhānah-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, Vol. XVIII: Riyāḍiyāt, Mashhad: Kitābkhānah-yi Markazī-i Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 2000, pp. 125–130; 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. 196; for the other works, see vol. I, pp. 235 and 239–240; vol. III, p. 312; vol. VI, p. 427; vol. VII, pp. 145 and 205; vol. XII, p. 359; vol. XXIX, p. 323; vol. XXXI, p. 196, and vol. XXXIV, p. 34.

85r–⁠86r	\85r\ [title] \85v\ ليكن الخطّ المارّ بالمراكز والأوج البطيء الحركة ا ب ج د وليكن ا مركز البروج وب مركز معدّل المسير وج مركز المدير — \86r\ ولأنّ زاويتي ل م قائمتان ووتري ب د ب ه متساويان فمربّعا د ل ا ر مثل مربّعي ه م ا م لكن مربّعا د ل ه م متساويان فمربّعا ا ل ا م متساويان وزاويتا د ا ل ه ا م متساويان وذلك ما أردنا أن نبيّن. تمّت. [two diagrams] = Muʾayyad al-Din al-ʿUrḍī, Muqaddima fī taṣḥīḥ burhān al-shakl al-rābiʿ min tāsiʿat al-Majisṭī (C.1.20) . — Title: Muqaddima tābiʿa fī Taṣḥīḥ Burhān al-Shakl al-rābiʿ min tāsiʿa bi-l-Majisṭī (85r). — No authorial or scribal colophon. No marginal corrections or annotations. The treatise is followed by a second diagram which does not appear in other manuscripts containing this work.

85r–⁠86r

\85r\ [title] \85v\ ليكن الخطّ المارّ بالمراكز والأوج البطيء الحركة ا ب ج د وليكن ا مركز البروج وب مركز معدّل المسير وج مركز المدير — \86r\ ولأنّ زاويتي ل م قائمتان ووتري ب د ب ه متساويان فمربّعا د ل ا ر مثل مربّعي ه م ا م لكن مربّعا د ل ه م متساويان فمربّعا ا ل ا م متساويان وزاويتا د ا ل ه ا م متساويان وذلك ما أردنا أن نبيّن. تمّت. [two diagrams]

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

. — Title: Muqaddima tābiʿa fī Taṣḥīḥ Burhān al-Shakl al-rābiʿ min tāsiʿa bi-l-Majisṭī (85r). — No authorial or scribal colophon. No marginal corrections or annotations. The treatise is followed by a second diagram which does not appear in other manuscripts containing this work.