`_`	(the underscore) is the placeholder for exactly one character.
`%`	(the percent sign) is the placeholder for no, one or more than one character.
`%%`	(two percent signs) is the placeholder for no, one or more than one character, but not for blank space (so that a search ends at word boundaries).

Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi markazi-i Dānishgāh-i Tehrān, 1281 Ṭ

Collection of five works: Arabic. Date:

first work finished in Shawwāl 1002/June-July 1594 (colophon, 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 al-Ṭabāṭabāʾī (pp. I, 195). The manuscript was part of the private collection of Sayyid Muḥammad Ṣādiq Ṭabāṭabāʾī, which he donated to the Majlis library (see 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 Hindu-Arabic numerals, Persian variants, mostly in the upper margins; irregular foliation with Hindu-Arabic numerals, Persian variants, 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 muḥaqqaqas. Diagrams only on pp. 185–187, with red lines and black geometrical points. Abjad numerals in the main text not highlighted. 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 former flap. Dimensions: 19.5×12.5 cm , written area: c. 13×7 cm ; 17–20 lines per page, except on pp. 38–51: 27–30 lines per page. Dark brown covers with doublures made of marbled paper. Type III binding, previously type II.

Cont.: philosophy, astronomy. — Index: Pseudo-Aristotle, Athūlūjiyā (pp. 1–98); Ghiyāth al-Dīn Manṣūr Dashtakī, Ḥāshiya ʿalā ilāhiyāt 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 Kitābkhānah-yi Majlis-i Shurā-yi Islāmī. Majmūca-yi ihdāyī-i Sayyid Muḥammad Ṣādiq Ṭabāṭabāyī, vol. XXIV/3, Tehran: Kitābkhāna, Mūza wa markaz-i asnād-yi 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.

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.