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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Mashhad, Dānishkada-yi adabiyyāt wa-ʿulūm-i insānī-yi Dānishgāh-i Firdawsī, 148 Fayyāḍ⁢⁢⁢⁢⁢⁢

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Single incomplete work: Arabic.  Date:

undated; 1032/1622 (Fāḍil).

Or.:

unknown, probably Iran; unidentified scribe. According to Nashriyya and Fāḍil (p. 138), the manuscript is an autograph, but the writing is quite different from al-Qāʾinī’s hand in the unique autograph MS Mashhad, Holy Shrine, 7345 of his Tafsīr Mukhtaṣar al-Majisṭī (C.1.48) and from the audition certificate by his hand in MS Tehran, Mahdawī, 486, f. 176v.

Prov.:

an illegible square seal (1r). An oval seal of ownership by al-Sharīf Muḥammad Ḥusayn with the number ‘89’, possibly indicating the year 1089/1678-9 (64r, 72r, 76r). Library stamp dated Isfand 1351/​1973 with accession number ‘28139’ and stamped old shelfmark ‘385’ (2r, 79v); undated library stamps.

Cod.: paper, I+80 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil;  some quire numbers in Hindu-Arabic numerals at the centre top of rectos; catchwords). A single non-professional nastaʿlīq hand in black, occasionally dotted; some lines crossed out, many lines overlined or underlined. Titles of Book II and its chapters overlined. Some reserved spaces for diagrams (e.g., 12v, 47v, 64r) and tables (49v, 68r–69r). A small table of declinations (41v, margin). Codex in good condition; moisture stains in the margins, not affecting the readability, and minor stains in the written area on the last pages. Dimensions: 18½×12 cm; 19 lines per page.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–80r). Blank: 68v, 69r, 80v.

Bibl.: Nashriyya, vol. VII (1974, 1353 H.S.), p. 696; Maḥmūd Fāḍil, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭtī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Dānishkada-yi adabiyyāt wa ʿulūm-i insānī-yi Dānishgāh-i Firdawsī, Mashhad: Dānishgāh-i Firdawsī, 1975 (1354 H.S.), pp. 138–139 (no. 252). The catalogue lists this manuscript under the title Kitāb riyāḍī, Fankha, vol. XVII, p. 276 as al-Riyāḍ.

1v–⁠80r

\1v\ مقدار الزاوية المستقيمة الخطّين هو مقدار القوس التي توتّرها وليس معنى ذلك المساواة عينهما حقيقة — \80r\ وبالفرع الأوّل من المغني نسبة جيب تمام ك ط إلى جيب تمام ك ز كنسبة الجيب كلّه إلى جيب تمام ز ي وك ي مجهول والجيوب الباقية معلومة فيصير ك ي معلومًا.

= Kāfī b. Muḥtashim al-Qāʾinī, 〈Ḥāshiya ʿalā Sharḥ al-Majisṭī li-l-Birjandī〉 (C.1.48⁢)

. — title: Ḥāshiyat Mīrzā Kāfī (1r). — Index: 〈Book I〉, 1v–25r; II, 25r–80r. — No colophon; the text ends in the middle of chapter II.12. Numerous glosses and marginal corrections indicated with , all in the scribe’s hand, sometimes trimmed.