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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi Majlis-i shurā-yi Islāmī, 1896⁢⁢⁢

[Low-resolution colour scanned images of the textblock and back cover.]

Four parts of a single work: Arabic. Date:

29 Rabīʿ al-awwal 995/9 March 1587 (655r).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe. This codex is part of a multivolume set of the entire Kitāb al-Shifāʾ further consisting of MSS Tehran, Majlis, 1895, 1897, and 1898 (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. XXI, p. 62, nos 49, 51 and 52).

Prov.:

a statement of purchase dated 1312/1894-5 by the ‘representative of Azerbaijan’, with name and seal erased (517r). A general note on the sciences; brief quotations on the value of mathematics ascribed to Plato and Aristotle; two Arabic poems and a Persian one (all on f. 517r). Oval library stamps (517v, 565v, 655r).

Cod.: paper, 139 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals running from ‘517’ to ‘655’; an erroneous earlier foliation running from ‘342’ to ‘371’, partially crossed out; two small slips inserted after f. 536, another after f. 608; catchwords). A single Indian nastaʿlīq hand in black (Ḥāʾirī); generally dotted ductus. Book and section titles in red; section titles often in the margins. Abjad numbers and geometrical points in the text overlined in black. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points, often partially and sometimes fully in the margins; unfilled spaces for diagrams in the third and fourth parts. No tables. Golden frame with blue rule-border around the text area, interrupted by diagrams sticking out. Particularly extensive glosses in the first part. Codex in excellent condition; minor restorations in the folds. Dimensions: 33×21 cm; 31 lines per page. Modern binding with marbled doublures; type III.

Cont.: geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, music. — Index: Ibn Sīnā, Kitāb al-Shifāʾ, al-Riyāḍiyyāt, including: al-handasa (517v–562r, referred to as ‘ikhtiṣār Ūqlīdis’ in the concluding sentence); Ptolemaica (562v–624r); al-ārithmāṭīqī (624v–636r); al-mūsīqā (636v–655r). Blank: 654v, 655v.

Bibl.: ʿAbd al-Ḥusayn Ḥāʾirī, Fihrist-i Kitābkhāna-i Majlis-i Shūrā-yi Millī, Vol. V: Kutub-i khaṭṭī-i farsī wa-ʿarabī 1685–2000, Tehran: Majlis-i Shūrā-yi Millī, 1965 (1345 H.S.), p. 389; 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. XXI, p. 62 (no. 50).

562v–⁠624r	\562v\ [title] فقد حان لنا أن نورد جوامع كتاب بطلميوس الكبير المعمول فى المجسطي وعلم الهيئة — \624r\ لكنّا وراء أن يتحقّق ذلك برصد نحاوله نرجوا أن نبلغ في استقصائه ما لم يبلغ قبلنا بمعونة الله وحسن توفيقه. = Ibn Sīnā, Talkhīṣ al-Majisṭī (C.1.8) , with the extra chapter. — Title: al-fann al-ʿāshir min Kitāb al-Shifāʾ min jumlat al-Riyāḍiyyāt fī ashkāl al-Majisṭī (562v). — Index: preface, 562v; Book I, 562v–568v; II, 569r–575r; III, 575r–581r; IV, 581v–587v; V, 587v –596r; VI: 596r–602v; VII, 602v–603r; VIII, 603r–604v; IX/X/XI, 604v–614r; XII, 614r–618r; XIII, 618r–622v; extra chapter, 623r–624r. — No scribal colophon. Marginal corrections and additions. Extensive glosses, in particular to Books I and II and in some cases with rubrication (e.g., 588v).

562v–⁠624r

\562v\ [title] فقد حان لنا أن نورد جوامع كتاب بطلميوس الكبير المعمول فى المجسطي وعلم الهيئة — \624r\ لكنّا وراء أن يتحقّق ذلك برصد نحاوله نرجوا أن نبلغ في استقصائه ما لم يبلغ قبلنا بمعونة الله وحسن توفيقه.

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

, with the extra chapter. — Title: al-fann al-ʿāshir min Kitāb al-Shifāʾ min jumlat al-Riyāḍiyyāt fī ashkāl al-Majisṭī (562v). — Index: preface, 562v; Book I, 562v–568v; II, 569r–575r; III, 575r–581r; IV, 581v–587v; V, 587v –596r; VI: 596r–602v; VII, 602v–603r; VIII, 603r–604v; IX/X/XI, 604v–614r; XII, 614r–618r; XIII, 618r–622v; extra chapter, 623r–624r. — No scribal colophon. Marginal corrections and additions. Extensive glosses, in particular to Books I and II and in some cases with rubrication (e.g., 588v).