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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi Dānishkada-yi adabiyyāt, 123 Ḥikmat⁢⁢⁢

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

a Friday night in Ṣafar 925/​February 1519 (243v).

Or.:

unknown; copied by Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn al-Ardabīlī (243v).

Prov.:

various faded or erased seals and statements. A Persian poem (1r); a Persian election (1v). Two different oval seals of a certain Muḥsin (1r). A statement that the manuscript was gifted by Shah ʿAbbās (r. 1588–1629) himself to Mullā Muẓaffar al-Munajjim al-Junābadhī and then passed on to his son, Muḥammad Taqī al-Munajjim (1r); a statement of inheritance by Muḥammad Taqī from his father, with the son’s seal (1r); an oval and a rectangular seal ‘al-ʿabd Muẓaffar al-Munajjim’ (1r). Statement of donation by Āghā Ḥikmat (1892–1980) in 〈13〉22 H.S./​1943; stamp of the Kitābkhānah-yi ihdāʾī-yi ʿAlī Aṣghar Ḥikmat with year 1340/​1961 (1r). Old shelfmark (?): ‘4766’ (1r).

Cod.: paper, I+243+Ia ff. (unfoliated; catchwords). A single nastaʿlīq hand in black; almost fully dotted ductus. Book and section titles, introductory phrases for explanations of black diagrams, and qawlu-hu / aqūlu in red. Abjad numerals partially in red, partially only overlined in red. Diagrams with red lines and black labels. Some tables with red lines. Codex in good condition; restorations of significant water damage at the top of the first ten folios as well as some corners near the end of the codex; some stains, some corners torn, binding and f. I loose. Dimensions: not given; 21 lines per page. Half-bound brownish cardboard covers with geometric and floral motifs. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–243v). Blank: Iv, Iar–v.

Bibl.: Muḥammad Taqī Dānishpazhūh, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Dānishkada-yi Adabiyyāt. Majmūʿa-yi waqfī-yi Janāb-i Āqā-yi ʿAlī Aṣghar Ḥikmat, vol. II, Tehran: Kitābkhāna-yi Dānishkada-yi Adabiyyāt, 1962 (1341 H.S.), p. 46; 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. VIII, p. 675 (no. 7).

1v–⁠243v

\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر يمتري الزيادة فأحمده على ما أوّلانا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض — \243v\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة ويسرى وتجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة وبشرى ويرحم الله عبدًا قال آمينا.

= Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38)

. — Title: Sharḥ Majisṭī … Nīsābūrī (Ir). — Index: preface, 1v–4r; Book I, 4r–48v; II,48v–69r; III, 69r–93r; IV, 93r–105v; V, 105v–132r; VI, 132r–165r; VII, 165r–172r; VIII, 172r–177r; IX, 177r–191v; X, 191v–199r; XI, 199r–207v; XII, 207v–224r; XIII, 224r–243v. — Dated authorial colophons for every book except I; authorial colophon of Book XIII written next to the scribal colophon in the scribe’s hand. Dated scribal colophon. Marginal corrections. A small number of glosses, mostly to Book I.