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Mashhad, Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 12225⁢

Collection of five works and five extracts: Arabic. Date:

Ptolemaic extract finished in Tehran on Monday, 9 Dhū l-qaʿda 1306/8 July 1889 (28v); other works and extracts finished in Shawwāl and Dhū l-qaʿda 1306/June-July 1889; treatise 4 finished on Sunday, 11 Muḥarram 1309/16 August 1891 (colophon, 34v).

Or.:

copied by Asad Allāh Munajjim Dūdāngah Māzandarānī (d. 1338/1919-20, see below) in Tehran (colophons, 17r, 23v, 25v, 28v and 34v); the colophons of treatise 1 and the extract on ff. 22r–23v indicate that they were copied from an exemplar in the hand of Muʿīn al-Dīn ‘Abd al-Razzāq b. Muḥammad al-Munajjim al-Kāshī, in which the first work was dated to the middle of Shaʿbān 824/August 1421 in Kashan (colophons, 17r and 23v); this manuscript is extant as Tehran, Malik, 3180, which contains further works also included in the present manuscript (Eshera; for a list of works copied by the same scribe see 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. XLIII, pp. 677.

Prov.:

a seal bearing the name Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī dated 1317/1899-1900 (2r) and two identical seals with the same name dated 1336/1917-8 (51v, 52r). A note in Persian by the scholar and politician Sayyid Jalāl al-Dīn Tihrānī (d. 1366/ 1987) about the copyist of the codex (1r); Tihrānī also states that he acquired the manuscript on Tuesday, 11 Shawwāl 1351/7 February 1933. He donated it to the library together with MS Mashhad, Āstān-i Quds, 12297 in 1361/ 1982 (library slip). Contemporary library stamp (25v) and a blind-stamped library seal (1r).

Cod.: paper, I+52+III^a ff. (foliated with Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil in the upper left part of rectos, with two unnumbered blank folios after f. 34; additional separate pagination with Hindu-Arabic numerals in the mid upper margins of treatises 1 and 5 and the extracts on ff. 17v–21v, occasionally trimmed; catchwords). A clear naskh hand; almost completely dotted ductus, frequent vowel marks, hamzas and shaddas. Abjad numerals in the text overlined in red. Diagrams in some of the non-Ptolemaic works and extracts with red lines and black labels. Dimensions: 20.52×15.58 cm; 17 lines per page. Codex in excellent condition; some ink smudges and stains (e.g., 2r, 48v–49r, 52r); slight water or moisture damage in the form of stains (1r, 3r, 6r). Brownish red leather covers with a frame. Type III binding.

Cont.: mathematics and astronomy. — Index: table of contents seemingly in the hand of Tihrānī (Ir); 1) Jamshīd b. Masʿūd al-Kāshī, Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ (1v–17r); two extracts by ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Baghdādī and another, probably by al-Kindī, separately dated 28 Shawwāl 1306/27 June 1889 (17r, in the margins); extract from Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Jawāmiʿ al-ḥisāb (17v–21r); calculation of the ratio of the diameter of a circle to its circumference, accompanied by a diagram (21v); unidentified extract on geometry (22r–23v); 3) Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Inʿikās al-shuʿāʿāt (24r–25v); Ptolemaica (26r–28v); 4) Qāḍī-Zāda al-Rūmī, Risāla fī ʿistikhrāj jayb al-daraja al-wāḥida ʿalā l-taḥqīq al-ḥaqīq yastakhriju-hu afḍal al-muhandisīn Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd al-Kāshānī (29r–34v); 5) Jamshīd b. Masʿūd al-Kāshī, Sullam al-samāʾ (35r–52r). Blank: Iv, 34^bisr–34^terv, 52v–III^av.

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. 109–112 (no. 575); 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. V, pp. 68–69 (no. 18); for the other works, see vol. III, pp. 300–301 (no. 6); vol. X, pp. 952–953 (no. 10); vol. XVIII, pp. 355–356 (no. 10), and vol. XXX, pp. 796–797 (no. 23); Eshera:2022, here pp. 226–237.

26r–⁠28v	\26r\ [title] ليكن ا ب ج د ه الحامل على مركز ز وقطر ا ب وح عليه نقطة خارجة عن المركز وج ح د د ح ه زاويتان عليها فإن كانتا متساويتين كانت قوس د ه الأوجيّة — \28v\ فقد تبيّن بالاستقراء ولم يلح 〈عـ〉ـلى طريق برهانيّ بعد إلى ذلك وباللّه التوفيق. = Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt (C.1.18b) . — Title: Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt allatī taḥduthu bi-sabab al-khurūj ʿan al-markaz (26r). — Dated scribal colophon (28v). No marginal corrections. A long note by the copyist advising his son, Naṣr Allāh, to read the treatise. No diagrams, but six spaces reserved.

26r–⁠28v

\26r\ [title] ليكن ا ب ج د ه الحامل على مركز ز وقطر ا ب وح عليه نقطة خارجة عن المركز وج ح د د ح ه زاويتان عليها فإن كانتا متساويتين كانت قوس د ه الأوجيّة — \28v\ فقد تبيّن بالاستقراء ولم يلح 〈عـ〉ـلى طريق برهانيّ بعد إلى ذلك وباللّه التوفيق.

= Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt (C.1.18b)

. — Title: Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt allatī taḥduthu bi-sabab al-khurūj ʿan al-markaz (26r). — Dated scribal colophon (28v). No marginal corrections. A long note by the copyist advising his son, Naṣr Allāh, to read the treatise. No diagrams, but six spaces reserved.