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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi Millī-yi Īrān, 7691⁢⁢⁢

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

copied in Shaʿbān of an illegible year (most of the colophon destroyed).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe. An Arabic poem in the hand of the scribe next to the colophon (348v).

Prov.:

statement of transfer to Mahdī b. Abī Dhar al-Narāqī, with a small oval seal with the name al-Mahdī (1r); an endowment statement to his sons by the same person, dated 1201/1786-7, with a small oval seal with an invocation (1r). This manuscript was previously part of the private collection of Ḥasan ʿĀṭifī in Kashan (cf. Nashriyya) and was purchased from him in 1383/2004.

Cod.: paper, 348 ff. (unfoliated; catchwords). A single nastaʿlīq hand with a backward slant; dotted ductus. Book and chapter headings and qawlu-hu / aqūlu in red. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals in red or overlined in black; geometrical points in the text overlined in black. Diagrams with black lines and red geometrical points, occasionally the other way around or mixed (e.g., 10r); some diagrams unfinished (e.g., 301r). Tables with red lines. Codex in good condition except for major damage by rodents to the first forty and last twenty folios, restored with pieces of paper, affecting large parts of the text area on ff. 343–348 and small parts elsewhere. Dimensions: 25.5×20.5 cm, written area: 16.5×11.0 cm; 21 lines per page. Brown leather covers over cardboard with a blind-tooled frame. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–348v). Blank: none.

Bibl.: NashriyyaNashriyya-yi Kitābkhana-yi Markaz-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 14 vols, Tehran: Kitābkhana-yi Markaz-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 1961–1977, vol. VII, p. 735; 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. XVII, p. 410 (under Riyāḍiyyat, hayʾāt wa-nujūm); Nāhīd Bāqirī Khurramdashtī, Fihrist-i nusakh-i khaṭṭī-yi Sāzmān-i Asnād wa Kitābkhāna-yi Millī-i Jumhūrī-yi Islāmī-yi Īrān, Vol. XXVIII: Az shumāra-yi 7601 tā 7900, Tehran: Kitābkhāna-yi Millī, 2015 (1394 H.S.), pp. 144–145. — Tehran Millī online: http://opac.nlai.ir/opac-prod/bibliographic/2940571.

1v–⁠348v	\1v\ الحمد لله الذي جعلنا من المتفكّرين في خلق السموات والأرض وألهمنا طريق معرفة مقادير حركات الأجرام النيّرة في الطول والعرض — \348v\ {... ... ...} وشيعته الأبرار الكرام. = al-Birjandī, Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.44) . — Title: Sharḥ-i Taḥrīr-i Majisṭī az Niẓām al-Dīn ʿAbd al-ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn Birjandī (1r, in pencil). — Index: preface, 1v–2v; Book I, 2v–67v; II, 67v–98v; III, 98v–129v; IV, 129v–148r; V, 148r–185r; VI, 185r–216r; VII/VIII, 216v–263v; IX, 263v–285r; X/XI, 285r–303r/294r–308v; XII, 308v–324v; XIII, 324v–348v (end destroyed). — Only fragments of the scribal colophon visible. Marginal corrections. Some glosses with siglum ʿbq, and some glosses referring to Kāshif al-Yazdī as ‘the teacher of our teacher’ (e.g., 40r, 57v).

1v–⁠348v

\1v\ الحمد لله الذي جعلنا من المتفكّرين في خلق السموات والأرض وألهمنا طريق معرفة مقادير حركات الأجرام النيّرة في الطول والعرض — \348v\ {... ... ...} وشيعته الأبرار الكرام.

= al-Birjandī, Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.44)

. — Title: Sharḥ-i Taḥrīr-i Majisṭī az Niẓām al-Dīn ʿAbd al-ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn Birjandī (1r, in pencil). — Index: preface, 1v–2v; Book I, 2v–67v; II, 67v–98v; III, 98v–129v; IV, 129v–148r; V, 148r–185r; VI, 185r–216r; VII/VIII, 216v–263v; IX, 263v–285r; X/XI, 285r–303r/294r–308v; XII, 308v–324v; XIII, 324v–348v (end destroyed). — Only fragments of the scribal colophon visible. Marginal corrections. Some glosses with siglum ʿbq, and some glosses referring to Kāshif al-Yazdī as ‘the teacher of our teacher’ (e.g., 40r, 57v).