Mashhad, Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 11521
c. 13th/19th 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, 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 inside 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; diagrams with lines in red and labels in black; abjad numerals overlined; 18 lines per page. Fourth hand (87r–126v): nastaʿlīq; 16 lines per page. Fifth hand (127v–130v): a dense nastaʿlīq; 20 lines per page. Dimensions: 19×12 cm. 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. 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. —
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
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\85r\ = Muʾayyad al-Din al-ʿUrḍī, Muqaddima fī taṣḥīḥ burhān al-shakl al-rābiʿ min tāsiʿat al-Majisṭī (C.1.20)
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