Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi Majlis-i shurā-yi Islāmī, 1464 S
Rabīʿ al-awwal 1018/June-July 1609 (428v).
Or.:Isfahan; copied by Muḥammad Muʾmin b. Ḥājī Muḥammad Barpashtī, who also copied MS Tehran, Majlis, 6167 of the same work (428v).
Prov.:note on the Arabic translations of the Almagest made from the Greek and on al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr (1r). Ownership statement by Muẓaffar al-Munajjim al-Junābādhī, the Safavid astronomer and mathematician who worked at the court of Shāh ʿAbbās I (r. 1587–1629) in Isfahan (see MAOSIC, pp. 352–353, no. 1069); the statement refers to the work as Sharḥ Kitāb al-Majisṭī and mentions the author as ʿAlī al-Jīlī (1r, with al-Muẓaffar’s oval seal). Statement of inheritance by Muḥammad Taqī l-Munajjim b. Muẓaffar, with his square seal (1r); statement of ownership by Muḥammad Ṣādiq b. Muḥammad Taqī, who received the manuscript from his father, with two different oval seals, one impressed thrice (1r); calligraphic ownership statement by Muḥammad b. Muḥammad Ṣādiq (1r, twice); statement of transfer by Abū Ṭālib, with his square seal, in favour of his son Muḥammad Ashraf (1r); statement of inheritance by Abū Muḥammad Ashraf al-Munajjim (1r). Illegible note, accompanied by an oval seal of Abū l-Qāsim al-Ḥusaynī (1r); oval seal with an illegible tughra (1r); two separate smudged notes, each accompanied by an oval seal of ʿAbd al-ʿAlī (1r). Statement of purchase dated 3 Rabīʿ al-ākhir 〈13〉30/22 March 1912 (1r). Library stamps (1r, 48r, 428v); acquisition number ‘21298’ (1r); old shelfmark ‘1609’ (428v, front and back doublures).
Cod.: paper, 428 ff. (unfoliated; catchwords). A single nastaʿlīq hand in black; mostly dotted ductus. Book and section titles in red; titles and quoted sentences from al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr overlined in red. Abjad numerals overlined in black or red; occasional use of Hindu-Arabic numerals (e.g., 167r, 170r, 378r). Diagrams with red lines and black letters or the other way around, mostly in the margins, some numbered with abjad numerals (e.g., 71r, 346v, 364v). Tables, occasionally in the margins, with red lines. Codex in very good condition; some moisture stains mainly in the margins, not affecting the readability; occasional repairs with pasted paper slips (e.g., ff. 1, 3, 411). Dimensions: 25×13 cm, written area: 18×7 cm; 23 lines per page. Dark-brown leather covers over gold-embossed cardboards. Type III binding.
Cont.: astronomy. —
Bibl.: Muḥammad Taqī Dānishpazhūh and Bahāʾ al-Dīn ʿIlmī Anwārī, Fihrist-i kutub-i khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Majlis-i Shūrā-yi Islāmī, shumāra-yi dū (Sinā-yi sābiq), vol. II, Tehran: Kitābhāna-yi Majlis-i Shūrā-yi Islāmī, 1980 (1359 H.S.), pp. 276–77; 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. XIX, p. 276. —
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\1v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ... من الإخوان كتاب المجسطي قد اشتهر أنّ لفظ المجسطي بكسر الميم وفتح الجيم وسكون السين — \428v\ تمّ بالخير على يد أفقر الطالبين وأحوجهم محمّد مؤمن بن حاجي محمّد برپشتي براآن من بلوك تسعۀ اصفهان بتاريخ شهر ربيع الأوّل سنة ثمان وعشر وألف هجريّة. = ʿAlī al-Jīlānī, Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.46)
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