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Shiraz, Kitābkhāna-yi Millī-yi Fārs, Ḥikmat 78 (ʿumūmī 530 Dash)⁢

Collection of seven works: Arabic. Date:

second work dated Ramaḍān 936/April-May 1530, i.e., during the author’s lifetime (colophon, 32r); all other works, including the Ptolemaic one, undated.

Or.:

unknown; second work copied by Abū l-Khayr Muḥammad al-Taqī al-Fārsī in Qazvin (colophon, 32r).

Prov.:

an oval seal by … ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Ḥusaynī (1v); the same seal with a statement, both erased (1r). Faded seal in the margins (84v). The manuscript was obtained by the library on 4 Shahrivar 1329/26 August 1950 (library slip, front doublure).

Cod.: different types of paper, I+85+I^a ff. (unfoliated; catchwords, sometimes cut off from the scans). This is very probably a composite manuscript, i.e., different parts were bound together at a later stage. At least seven different hands. Seventh hand (63v–85v, the Ptolemaic work): a large naskh with tendency to nastaʿlīq; occasionally dotted ductus, few vowel marks, no shaddas or hamzas except for the basmalas, frequent elongated descenders and bowls; shukūk, masāʾil and ajwiba highlighted by elongated letters; abjad numerals overlined; diagram in red with black letters (66r); 14 lines per page. First hand (1v–8r): a dense nastaʿlīq; 16–21 lines per page. Second hand (9v–16v): a large naskh with tendency to nastaʿlīq; 8–13 lines per page. Third hand (17r–32v): a quick nastaʿlīq; 16–20 lines per page. Fourth hand (33v–50r): a quick nastaʿlīq; 13–22 lines per page. Fifth hand (51v–54r); a sloppy nastaʿlīq; 15 lines per page. Sixth hand (55r–62v): a very dense nastaʿlīq; 25–27 lines per page. Extensive marginal annotations in the first and second works. Codex in bad condition; fire damage around the lower corners (visible on ff. 8–18, 53–66); water damage throughout the codex, sometimes affecting the readability; frequent smudges; ff. I and 1 torn, binding becoming loose. Dimensions of the covers: 16×10.5 cm; written area in the Ptolemaic part: 9.5×4.5 cm. Covers made of cardboard with black leather and a quadrangular centre-piece with floral motifs on the upper cover. Type III binding, some parts formerly type II (traces of a flap on ff. 17–24).

Cont.: optics, philosophy, phonetics, logic, astronomy. — Index: Ghiyāth al-Dīn Manṣūr Dashtakī, an unidentified treatise on optics (1v–8r, incomplete); title page (9r); Ghiyāth al-Dīn Manṣūr Dashtakī, Masāʾil al-ḥikma (9v–32r); unidentified fragment on optics (32v); damaged title page (33r); Ghiyāth al-Dīn Manṣūr Dashtakī, commentary on Ibn Sīnā’s Kitāb al-Ishārāt wal-l-tanbīhāt (33v–50r); Ghiyāth al-Dīn Manṣūr Dashtakī, Nubadh min nukat masāʾil Kitāb al-Samāʾ wa-l-ʿālam min al-Shawāriq (51v–54r); Ibn Sīnā, Asbāb ḥudūth al-ḥurūf (55r–59v); anonymous treatise on logic (60r–62v); Ptolemaica (63v–85v). Blank: Iv, 8v, 50v, 51r, and presumably 54v, 63r, I^ar, I^av.

Bibl.: ShirazCat:2, pp. 184–187 (no. 595); 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. XIII, p. 338.

63v–⁠85v	\1v\ [title] الشكّ الأوّل وهو قول بطلميوس في الفصل الثالث الذي ترجمه في أنّ السماء كريّة — \85v\ فهذا الـ{ـذي} ذكرناه هو تفسير قول بطلميوس لو خلطناها وما تبعه من الكـ{ـلام} وهذا آخر ما ذكرناه من المسائل. = Ibn al-Haytham, Ḥall shukūk fī kitāb al-Majisṭī yashukku fī-hā baʿḍ ahl al-ʿilm (C.1.10) . Title: Ḥall shukūk fī Kitāb al-Majisṭī yasʾal ʿan-hā baʿḍ ahl al-ʿilm li-l-Shaykh Abī ʿAlī al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥasan b. al-Haytham raḥima-hu Allāh (63v). — Additional Titles: Ḥall Shukūk Majisṭī (librarian’s notes, Ir). — Index: Part I, 63v–69v (incomplete); II, 69v–85v. — No scribal colophon. Around six folios lost after f. 63v. Two marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ (64v, 71v). Minor correction in a different hand (67r, inner margin).

63v–⁠85v

\1v\ [title] الشكّ الأوّل وهو قول بطلميوس في الفصل الثالث الذي ترجمه في أنّ السماء كريّة — \85v\ فهذا الـ{ـذي} ذكرناه هو تفسير قول بطلميوس لو خلطناها وما تبعه من الكـ{ـلام} وهذا آخر ما ذكرناه من المسائل.

= Ibn al-Haytham, Ḥall shukūk fī kitāb al-Majisṭī yashukku fī-hā baʿḍ ahl al-ʿilm (C.1.10)

. Title: Ḥall shukūk fī Kitāb al-Majisṭī yasʾal ʿan-hā baʿḍ ahl al-ʿilm li-l-Shaykh Abī ʿAlī al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥasan b. al-Haytham raḥima-hu Allāh (63v). — Additional Titles: Ḥall Shukūk Majisṭī (librarian’s notes, Ir). — Index: Part I, 63v–69v (incomplete); II, 69v–85v. — No scribal colophon. Around six folios lost after f. 63v. Two marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ (64v, 71v). Minor correction in a different hand (67r, inner margin).