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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi Majlis-i shurā-yi Islāmī, 4428⁢⁢⁢⁢⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]
Collection of three works: Arabic.  Date:

undated, 11th/17th century (Munzawī).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

two verses of a Persian poem (243v, top margin). An illegible statement of purchase (1r). A statement of purchase by Aḥmad al-Ḥusaynī (1r). A square seal by Dāwud … b. al-Ḥusaynī (1r). A short note  identifying the manuscript as no. 2100 in the otherwise unknown Kitābkhāna-yi Bunyād-i Futūḥī of Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn Ṭabāṭabāʾī (1r). A Persian note listing five works, including the second and third treatises contained in this manuscript (1r); a Persian note stating that the Tanqīḥ al-ʿaqāʾid is not listed in Āqā Buzurg Ṭihrānī’s al-Dharīʿa (83r). Several library stamps; accession number ‘3245’ (1r), old shelfmark (?): ‘542’ (front cover).

Cod.: paper, 266 ff. (foliated with stamped Hindu-Arabic numerals; catchwords). A single naskh hand in black; almost fully dotted ductus, final hamzas, hardly any shaddas. Section numbers in red, the subtitles masʾala, muqaddima, farʿ, qāla, qawlu-hu and aqūlu in red or overlined in red or black, quotations overlined in red or black; some passages in the first work numbered with red or black Hindu-Arabic or abjad numerals. Occasional use of Hindu-Arabic numerals in the text (e.g., 263r), otherwise numbers are spelled out. Two diagrams, the smaller one in the margin, with black lines and red letters (258v). Codex in very good condition; some moisture stains, mainly in the margins, not affecting the readability. Dimensions: 28×18 cm, written area: 20×10 cm; 25 lines per page. Simple dark brown leather covers. Type III binding.

Cont.: jurisprudence, philosophy, and astronomy. — Index: anonymous commentary on Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad Muḥaqqiq al-Khwānsārī’s Mashāriq al-shumūs fī sharḥ al-durūs (1v–81v, end missing); Muḥammad Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad Bāqir Khātūn Ābādī, Tanqīḥ al-ʿaqāʾid (83r–250r); Ptolemaica (251v–265v). Blank: 82r–v, 250v, 266r–v.

Bibl.: Aḥmad Munzawī, Fihrist-i Kitābkhāna-yi Majlis-i Shūrā-yi Millī. Kutub-i khaṭṭī, fārisī wa-ʿarabī, vol. XII, Tehran: Majlis-i Shūrā-yi Millī, 1967 (1346 H.S.), p. 116–118; 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. IX, pp. 365–366; vol. XX, p. 641 (no. 3), and vol. XXIX, p. 515 (no. 3). — Tehran Millī online: http://opac.nlai.ir/opac-prod/bibliographic/7802916, http://opac.nlai.ir/opac-prod/bibliographic/7802915, and http://opac.nlai.ir/opac-prod/bibliographic/7803485.

251v–⁠265v

\251v\ المقالة الثالة عشرة فصول وعشرون شكلًا. نريد أن نبيّن فيها أحوال الشمس في الأوّل مقدار زمان السنة الشمسيّة وفي الثاني وضع الجداول الحركة الشمس الوسطى — \265v\ وما نقله حلقة واحدة وأيضًا {الظ} أنّه آلة أخرى غير ما رصد به أبرخس وعلى الوجه الذي ذكره ليست غيره فإنّا وجدناها وخصوصًا أعظمها وأقدمها قد يتكّرر إضاءت سطوح مقعّراتها في استواء بعينه مرّتين|| 

= Ismāʿīl Khātūnābādī (?), Taʿlīq ʿalā Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.50⁢)

, incomplete. — Title: Taʿlīq Sayyid Ismāʿīl ʿalā l-Majisṭī (251r). — Additional titles: Taʿlīq-i Sayyid Ismāʿīl bar Taḥrīr-i Majisṭī (1r); Taḥrīr Majisṭī maqāla thālitha ʿashara (251r) — Index: section III.1, 251v–265v. The scribe seems to have stopped copying before the end. — No corrections or glosses.