PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

_ (the underscore) is the placeholder for exactly one character.
% (the percent sign) is the placeholder for no, one or more than one character.
%% (two percent signs) is the placeholder for no, one or more than one character, but not for blank space (so that a search ends at word boundaries).

At the beginning and at the end, these placeholders are superfluous.

Mashhad, Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 7345⁢⁢⁢⁢⁢⁢

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

finished in the end of Rabīʿ al-thānī 1033/February 1624.

Or.:

the work was completed in Qāʾin (211v), but the first book was copied in Mashhad (37v); autograph by Kāfī b. Muḥtashim al-Qāʾinī (211v).

Prov.:

undated ownership statement by Hidāyat Allāh Muḥāmmad Mahdī l-Ḥusaynī l-Mūsawī (212r). An illegible name ending in ‘Kāfī’ (1r); a Quranic verse accompanied by an illegible rectangular seal (1r); three pieces of Persian poetry by a certain Qudsī (1r); a Persian poem by the early 11th/17th-century Iranian poet Ṭālib Āmulī (212v); some computations of prices and payments (Iar); some Arabic poems (Iav, upside down).

Cod.: paper, I+213+Ia ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil; catchwords). A single naskh hand in black, at times faster and slightly cursive; mostly dotted ductus, final hamzas; some lines crossed out (e.g., 96v). Section beginnings (qawlu-hu/qāla and al-tafsīr) in red. Numerous diagrams with lines, letters and labels in black or red; two diagrams crossed out (170v, 211r), the first one accompanied by a note in Persian stating that the diagram is misplaced. Manuscript in good condition; occasional moisture stains, not affecting the readability; a few smudges in the margin (e.g., 1v, 153v, 154r); ff. 97 and 102 of slightly smaller pink paper; a few restorations with slips of paper in the margins (e.g., 1r, 1v, 98v, 171r). Dimensions: 21.5×13.7 cm; 13–19 lines per page.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–211v); a fragment of an anonymous work on jurisprudence, copied in Ṣafar 1058/February-March 1648 (213v). Blank: Iv, 213r.

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. 96–97 (no. 115); 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, pp. 849–850. MAMSGalina P. Matvievskaya and Boris A. Rozenfeld, Matematiki i astronomy musul′manskogo srednevekov′ya i ikh trudy (VIII-XVII vv.), 3 vols, Moscow: Nauka, 1983, vol. III, p. 22 (no. 101) and MAOSICBoris A. Rosenfeld and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and their Works (7th–19th c.), Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture (IRCICA), 2003, p. 434 (no. 0133) refer to what is almost certainly the same manuscript as ‘Mashhad 1482’.

1v–⁠211v

\1v\ وبعد فهذا تفسير مختصر المجسطي للمهندس الفاضل أبوعبد الله محمّد بن أحمد (الخوارزميّ صح) رحمه اللّه تعالى قد أخرجه ورسّمه كافي القائنيّ — \211v\ وفرغ مفسّره أحوج خلق الله إليه كافي بن محتشم القائنيّ ختم الله لهما بالحسنى عن تفسير الكتاب في آخر شهر ربيع الآخر سنة ثلاث وثلاثين وألف من الهجرة بمدينة قائن جعلها الله مملوة بالخيرات.

= Kāfī b. Muḥtashim al-Qāʾinī, Tafsīr Muhktaṣar al-Majisṭī (C.1.49⁢)

. — Title: Tafsīr Muhktaṣar al-Majisṭī (1r, 1v) — Index: preface, 1v–13r; Book I, 13v–37v; II, 38r–55r; III, 55r–74r; IV, 74v–90r; V, 90v–113v; VI, 114r–120v; VII, 120v–121v; VIII, 122r–129r; IX, 129v–148r; X, 148r–164r; XI, 164r; XII, 164v–180r; XIII, 180v–211v. — Dated authorial and scribal colophon (211v). A few glosses in a different hand from the scribe’s (e.g., 3r, 17r, 19v). Several marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by ṣḥ.