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Mashhad, Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 5618⁢⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock (except for the third part) and of the front cover.]

Four parts of a single work: Arabic. Date:

1082/1671-2 (library slip; Gulchīn Maʿānī, p. 351, n. 1, suggests that date and copyist are mentioned on a label on the book and stem from a part not any more included in the present codex).

Or.:

unknown; copied by Faḍl Allāh b. Ḥasan Naʾīnī (Gulchīn Maʿānī, p. 351, n. 1; not mentioned on the library slip).

Prov.:

a note of possession by Abū Jaʿfar al-Qārī dated 1159/1746 (p. I). Endowment of Mīrzā Riḍā Khān Naʾīnī in Murdād 1311/July-August 1932, together with several other Ptolemaic manuscripts. Alternative shelfmark: ‘riyāḍī 394’ (library slip).

Cod.: paper, I+279 pp. (paginated with Hindu-Arabic numerals at the centre bottom of rectos, p. 1 being a verso; foliated on rectos up to ‘14’ on p. 26; catchwords). A single neat naskh hand in black; partially dotted ductus. Spaces reserved for rubrication and diagrams but left empty throughout. Geometrical points in the text not highlighted. Golden frame with greyish rule-border around the text area. Codex in very good condition. Dimensions: 35×19.7 cm, written area: 23×11.2 cm; 25 lines per page. Red leather cover, damaged on the spine. Type III binding.

Cont.: geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, music. — Index: Ibn Sīnā, Kitāb al-Shifā’, al-Riyāḍiyyāt, including: al-handasa, entitled Mukhtaṣar Kitāb al-Uṣūl al-handasiyya li-Uqlīdis (p. 1–73); Ptolemaica (pp. 74–221); al-ārithmāṭīqī (pp. 221–252); al-mūsīqā (pp. 252–297). Blank: none.

Bibl.: Aḥmad Gulchīn Maʿānī, Fihrist-i kutub-i khaṭṭī-i Kitābkhāna-i Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, vol. VIII, Mashhad: Intishārāt-i Kitābkhāna-i Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 1971 (1350 H.S.), pp. 350–351 (no. 394); 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. XXVIII, p. 132; for the other parts, see vol. XXI, p. 71 (no. 171); vol. XXVIII, p. 567, and vol. XXXII, p. 525.

pp. 74–⁠221	\p. 74\ وقد حان لنا أن نورد جوامع كتاب بطلميوس الكبير المعمول فى المجسطي وعلم الهيئة — \p. 221\ لكنّا من وراء أن يتحقّق ذلك رصد بحالة نرجو أن تبلغ في استقصائه ما لم تبلغ قبلنا تمّ بعون الله تعالى وحسن توفيقه. = Ibn Sīnā, Talkhīṣ al-Majisṭī (C.1.8) , with the extra chapter. — Title: Mukhtaṣar-i Majisṭī (library slip). — Small spaces appear to be reserved for section beginnings (‘faṣl’) and/or diagrams, but the transition between books is not indicated in any way. — No scribal colophon. No corrections or glosses.

pp. 74–⁠221

\p. 74\ وقد حان لنا أن نورد جوامع كتاب بطلميوس الكبير المعمول فى المجسطي وعلم الهيئة — \p. 221\ لكنّا من وراء أن يتحقّق ذلك رصد بحالة نرجو أن تبلغ في استقصائه ما لم تبلغ قبلنا تمّ بعون الله تعالى وحسن توفيقه.

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

, with the extra chapter. — Title: Mukhtaṣar-i Majisṭī (library slip). — Small spaces appear to be reserved for section beginnings (‘faṣl’) and/or diagrams, but the transition between books is not indicated in any way. — No scribal colophon. No corrections or glosses.