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Shiraz, Kitābkhāna-yi Millī-yi Fārs, handasa 6 (ʿumūmī Bṭ 529)⁢⁢

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Four parts of a single work: Arabic. Undated; unknown origin and scribe. Prov.:

undated collation statement in a hand different from the scribe by Aḥmad b. Naṣrallāh al-Tatawī (d. 996/1587), stating that he collated the manuscript against another one copied in ‘baldat Lāhūr’ and dated Thursday, 6 Shawwal 950/3 January 1544 (217r). Rectangular stamps of endowment in Persian dated 1325/1946-7 (e.g., 5r, 119r, 189v, 254v); the manuscript was donated to the library on ‘4.9.1329’/25 November 1950 by the Shāpūr State School (library slip on front doublure). Round library stamps (Ir, 4r).

Cod.: paper, II+254+II^a ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil in the top right margin of versos, only occasionally visible on the scans, possibly trimmed; ff. 1–3 lost; catchwords). A single naskh hand; almost fully dotted ductus, frequent vowel marks, hamzas and shaddas. Headings of books in red thuluth; in the Ptolemaic section, heading for Book XII displayed as chapter heading, heading for Book XIII missing; section headings in red; some reserved spaces for chapter headings in Book XII (177r, 179r, 180r). Abjad numerals, Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals, and geometrical points in the text overlined in red or black. Diagrams in the Ptolemaic section with red lines and all geometrical points missing except on ff. 174v–175v; some reserved spaces for diagrams (10v, 13r–v, 138v). Codex in bad condition; damage by insects, water damage in the margins, binding becoming loose; some pages restored (e.g., 22v–23r, 66v, 253r–254v). Dimensions: 21.5×11 cm, written area: 15.5×6 cm; 23 lines per page. Modern covers made of yellowish cardboard with brown leather spine, in bad condition. Type III binding.

Cont.: geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, music. — Index: Ibn Sīnā, Kitāb al-Shifāʾ, al-Riyāḍiyyāt, including: al-handasa (4r–62v, acephalous); Ptolemaica (65v–192v); al-ārithmāṭīqī (193v–218r); al-mūsīqā (218v–254v). Blank: Iv–IIv, 63r–65r, 193r, I^ar–II^av.

Bibl.: ʿAlī Naqī Bihrūzī and Muḥammad Ṣādiq Faqīrī, Fihrist-i kutub-i khaṭṭī-i Kitābkhāna-yi Millī-i Fārs, Vol. II: az shumāra-yi 401 tā 780, Shiraz: Intishārāt-i Anjuman-i Kitābkhānah-i ʿumūmī-yi Shīrāz, 1972 (1351 H.S.), pp. 34–36 (no. 440, erroneously attributed to Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī); 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, pp. 444–445 (no. 2); for the other works, see vol. IV, p. 335 (without attribution), and vol. XXI, p. 62 (no. 47) and p. 77 (no. 266).

65v–⁠192v	\65v\ المقالة الأولى من تلخيص كتاب بطليموس في التعاليم وهو كتاب المجسطي قال وقد حان لنا أن نورد جوامع كتاب بطليموس الكبير المعمول في المجسطي وعلم الهيئة — \192v\ وفي الخامس أبعاد الغروب الصباحيّ. فهذا آخر ما اختصرنا من كتاب المجسطي. = Ibn Sīnā, Talkhīṣ al-Majisṭī (C.1.8) , without the extra chapter. — Title: Talkhīṣ Kitāb Baṭlīmūs fī l-Taʿālīm (65v). — Additional Title: Mukhtaṣar Majisṭī (library slip on front doublure). — Index: Book I, 65v–78r; II, 78r–89v; III, 89v–102v; IV, 102v–116v; V, 116v–134v; VI, 134v–148v; VII, 148v–150r; VIII, 150r–153v; IX/X/XI, 153v–174r; XII, 174r–181v; XIII, 181v–192v. — No scribal colophon. Some marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe mostly indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Marginal collations in nastaʿlīq, likely by al-Tatawī.

65v–⁠192v

\65v\ المقالة الأولى من تلخيص كتاب بطليموس في التعاليم وهو كتاب المجسطي قال وقد حان لنا أن نورد جوامع كتاب بطليموس الكبير المعمول في المجسطي وعلم الهيئة — \192v\ وفي الخامس أبعاد الغروب الصباحيّ. فهذا آخر ما اختصرنا من كتاب المجسطي.

= Ibn Sīnā, Talkhīṣ al-Majisṭī (C.1.8)

, without the extra chapter. — Title: Talkhīṣ Kitāb Baṭlīmūs fī l-Taʿālīm (65v). — Additional Title: Mukhtaṣar Majisṭī (library slip on front doublure). — Index: Book I, 65v–78r; II, 78r–89v; III, 89v–102v; IV, 102v–116v; V, 116v–134v; VI, 134v–148v; VII, 148v–150r; VIII, 150r–153v; IX/X/XI, 153v–174r; XII, 174r–181v; XIII, 181v–192v. — No scribal colophon. Some marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe mostly indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Marginal collations in nastaʿlīq, likely by al-Tatawī.