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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi Majlis-i shurā-yi Islāmī, 1281 Ṭ

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]
Collection of five works: Arabic.  Date:

first work finished in Shawwāl 1002/​June-July 1594 (p. 98); all other works by the same hand.

  Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

  Prov.:

a possible statement of purchase, partially smudged and dated Dhū l-qaʿda 1046/​March-April 1637 in connection with a certain … Muḥammad Ibrāhīm (p. 195). Two black oval seals of Muḥammad b. Ṣādiq al-Ḥusaynī (pp. 1 and 189). Two rectangular seals in blue ink of Muḥammad Ṣādiq Ḥusaynī l-Ṭabāṭabāʾī (pp. I, 195); Ṭabāṭabāʾī donated his private collection to the Majlis library (Naẓarī, introduction). Two illegible seals (p. I); three library stamps (pp. 1, 99, 189). Accession number: 31984 (p. I).

Cod.: paper, I+195 pp. (paginated with stamped Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals, mostly in the upper margins; irregular foliation with Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil in the upper left corner of some rectos throughout the manuscript; catchwords). Two hands. Main hand (pp. 1–37 and 52–189): a mostly, towards the end sparsely, dotted nastaʿlīq; no vowel marks, shaddas or hamzas; rare maddas. Second hand (pp. 38–51): a dense naskh with a clear tendency to nastaʿlīq; mostly dotted ductus, few shaddas and hamzas, no vowel marks, some lām-alif muḥaqqaqa. Abjad numerals in the text not highlighted. Diagrams only on pp. 185–187, with red lines and black geometrical points. Codex in good condition; water damage in the bottom margins of the first work, with the affected text repeated in the margins, possibly in the hand of the scribe (e.g., pp. 57–83); restored margins on pp. 38–51; last page damaged by a former flap. Dimensions: 19.5×12.5 cm, written area: c. 13×7 cm; 17–20 lines per page, on pp. 38–51, 27–30 lines per page. Dark brown covers with doublures of marbled paper. Type III binding, previously type II.

Cont.: philosophy, astronomy. — Index: Pseudo-Aristotle, Uthūlūjiyā (pp. 1–98); Ghiyāth al-Dīn Manṣūr Dashtakī, Ḥāshiya ʿalā ilāhiyyāt al-Shifāʾ (pp. 101–145); Muʾayyad al-Dīn al-ʿUrḍī, Kayfiyyat al-arṣād (pp. 149–184, all spaces for diagrams left empty); Muʾayyad al-Dīn al-ʿUrḍī, Fī stikhrāj mā bayna markazay al-shams wa-mawḍiʿ awji-hā (pp. 184–187, title omitted); Ptolemaica (pp. 188–189). Blank: pp. 99 (except for a library stamp), 100, 146–148, 190–194. The three works by al-ʿUrḍī appear in the same order in MS Tehran, Dānishgāh, 7190.

Bibl.: Maḥmūd Naẓarī, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-i Kitābkhāna-yi Majlis-i shurā-yi islāmī, Vol. XXIV/3: Majmūʿa-yi ihdāyī-i Sayyid Muḥammad Ṣādiq Ṭabāṭabāyī, Tehran: Kitābkhāna, mūza wa markaz-i asnād-i Majlis-i shurā-yi islāmi, 2011 (1390 H.S.), pp. 51–52; 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. 217.

pp. 188–⁠189

\p. 188\ ليكن الخطّ المارّ بالمراكز الأوج البطيء الحركة ا ب ج د وليكن ا مركز البروج و ب مركز معدّل المسير وح (كذا) مركز المدير — \p. 189\ ولأنّ زاويتي ل م قائمتان ووتري ب د ب ه متساويان فمربّعا د ل ا ل 〈… … …〉 ا م متساويان وزاويتا د ا ل ه ا م متساويتان وذلك ما أردنا أن نبيّن.

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

. — Title: not inserted in reserved space. — No authorial or scribal colophon. No marginal corrections or annotations. The figure typically following the text is here missing. Scribal omission of what would have been approximately another line in the explicit.