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Qom, Markaz-i Iḥyāʾ-i Mīrāth-i Islāmī, 3694⁢⁢⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Two incomplete works: Arabic. Date:

Ptolemaic work finished on 20 Ṣafar 〈1012〉/30 July 1603 (p. 83), second work finished in Jumādā l-thāniya 1012/November 1603 (p. 154).

Or.:

unknown; copied by Mīr Aḥmad (ʿAbd al-ʿAlī) b. Sulṭan Muḥammad Kafarānī (Ḥusaynī Ishkawarī) or Kafarātī (pp. 83 and 154).

Prov.:

two imprints of a small round seal, and an erased statement (p. 154).

Cod.: paper, 155 pp. (paginated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in the upper centre, p. 1 being a recto, but skipping an empty page after the first work so that from p. 84 onwards rectos have even page numbers; catchwords). A very clear naskh hand; dotted ductus; no vowels, hamzas or shaddas. Book and chapter titles as well as paragraph beginnings written by a red nastaʿlīq hand; the same hand introduces the commentator (al-mufassir) with siglum f and quotes attributed to Ptolemy (Baṭlamyūs) with siglum bṭ. Abjad notation in the main text with red overlines. Instructions for rubrication occasionally visible in the margins (e.g., p. 54, trimmed). Two of the three horoscopes usually found in this commentary in red and black (p. 1, on a pasted slip, and p. 4), both supplemented by a different hand. Codex in good condition; several pages lost, minor water damage in the upper margins (e.g., pp. 103–140), some paper cracks caused by insects, esp. in the folds (pp. 47–63). Dimensions: 25×19.5 cm; 21 lines per page. Pasteboard covers decorated with marbled paper. Type III binding, previously Type II (imprints of fore-edge and envelope flap on pp. 73–83^bis).

Cont.: astrology, jurisprudence. — Index: Ptolemaica (pp. 1–83); Shaykh Bahāʾī Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn, al-Ḥabl al-matīn fī iḥkām aḥkām al-dīn (pp. 84–154). Blank: pp. 83^bis, 154.

Bibl.: Aḥmad Ḥusaynī Ishkawarī, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Markaz-i Iḥyāʾ-i Mīrāth-i Islāmī, Vol. IX: majmūʿa-yi Muḥaddith Urmawī, Qom: Markaz-i Iḥyāʾ-i Mīrāth-i Islāmī, 2007 (1386 H.S.), p. 225; 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. XVIII, p. 972 (no. 4), and vol. XII, p. 552 (no. 8).

pp. 1–⁠83	\|\| \p. 1\الأهل وفي الوطن وعلى أنّها يكون ميتة النفس فقط فقد قصصت لك من حال مولدي ما يقيس عليه وإنّما قدّمت القول على مولدي لأننّي كنت اعتبرت كثيرًا منها وتفقّدتها بنفسي ولم أجدها بالخير — \p. 83\ فهذه أشياء قد شرّحتها لك فانعم النظر فيها وتأمّلها والله یهدي من يشاء إلى صراط مستقيم. = ʿAlī b. Riḍwān, Tafsīr al-Maqālāt al-arbaʿ (C.2.3) , only Book IV. — Title: Sharḥ Arbaʿ maqālāt Baṭlamyūs li-Abī l-Ḥasan (p. 1). — Index: IV.1 (=X, acephalous), pp. 1–7; IV.2 (=XI), pp. 7–56; IV.3 (=XII), pp. 56–83. — Authorial colophon and dated scribal colophon. Very few marginal corrections indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Several marginal annotations in two other hands.

pp. 1–⁠83

 || \p. 1\الأهل وفي الوطن وعلى أنّها يكون ميتة النفس فقط فقد قصصت لك من حال مولدي ما يقيس عليه وإنّما قدّمت القول على مولدي لأننّي كنت اعتبرت كثيرًا منها وتفقّدتها بنفسي ولم أجدها بالخير — \p. 83\ فهذه أشياء قد شرّحتها لك فانعم النظر فيها وتأمّلها والله یهدي من يشاء إلى صراط مستقيم.

= ʿAlī b. Riḍwān, Tafsīr al-Maqālāt al-arbaʿ (C.2.3)

, only Book IV. — Title: Sharḥ Arbaʿ maqālāt Baṭlamyūs li-Abī l-Ḥasan (p. 1). — Index: IV.1 (=X, acephalous), pp. 1–7; IV.2 (=XI), pp. 7–56; IV.3 (=XII), pp. 56–83. — Authorial colophon and dated scribal colophon. Very few marginal corrections indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Several marginal annotations in two other hands.