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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Mashhad, Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 40698⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]
Single work with an appendix: Arabic.  Date:

copied on 17 Dhū l-ḥijja 1085/14 March 1675 (123r).

Or.:

unknown; unknown copyist.

Prov.:

a loose piece of blue paper with notes containing ḥadīths in a nastaʿlīq hand and a small slip of white paper containing a note mentioning Naṣr Allāh b. Malik Nisāʾ as a former owner (both between ff. 79v and 80r). A cat-like animal in blue drawn on the back doublure.

Cod.: paper, I+123+Ia ff. (unfoliated; catchwords). A clear naskh hand; fully dotted ductus; frequent vowel marks, hamzas and shaddas. Book headings in red thuluth (Book VIII in black thuluth); chapter beginnings in red, introduced by red overlined abjad numerals; propositions indicated by red overlined abjad numerals in the margins. Abjad numerals and Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals overlined in black or red. Carefully drawn diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or vice versa. Tables with red lines. Codex in good condition; margins of ff. I, 1 and Ia repaired; some smudges and stains (e.g., 4r–6v); minor water or moisture damage in the upper margins (e.g., ff. 72–77, 90–96). Dimensions: not provided; 22 lines per page (misṭara imprints visible on f. Iar–v). Heavily rubbed dark-brown leather covers decorated with a central mandorla and frame. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. —  Index: Ptolemaica (1v–122r); Ptolemaica (122r–123r); a set of twenty unfinished diagrams, obviously intended for a copy of C.1.18a (123v). Blank: Iv–1r, 80v (except for tabular frames), Iar–v, and presumably Ir.

Bibl.: Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī online catalogue: https://opac.razavi.ir/simwebclt/.

1v–⁠122r

\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \122r\ فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا للّه على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليآئه (كذا) خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.

= Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18)

. — Title: none. — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–15v; II, 15v–26r; III, 26r–35r; IV, 35r–45v; V, 45v–58r; VI, 58r–68v; VII, 68v–76v; VIII, 76v–86r; IX, 86r–99r; X, 99r–102r; XI, 102r–109r; XII, 109r–114r; XIII, 114r–122r. — No authorial or scribal colophon. Some marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Frequent marginal annotations in a fine nastaʿlīq hand, mostly marked with ‘12’.

122r–⁠123r

\122r\ [title] ا كوكب الرأس وب كوكب الرجل وفي المجسطي لأوّل سنة من ملك أنطونينس طول ا  و م وعرضه ز ك\122v\ والعرض زائدًا على ما أخذه بخمس وعشرين دقيقة تعرفنا أنّه قد تساهل فيه وعمل على التقريب دون التحقيق واللّه أعلم بالحقيقة.

= Fī Tashakkul al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (C.1.18c)

. — Title: Fī Tashakkul al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (122r). — This work starts immediately after the explicit of the Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī. Dated scribal colophon. Reserved space for a missing diagram (122r). Parts of the first line of f. 122v crossed out.