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Zanjan, Masjid-i Chihil Sutūn, unnumbered⁢⁢⁢⁢

[Black-and-white microfilm scans of the textblock.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

Rabīʿ al-thānī 1237/December 1821-January 1822 (p. 500).

Or.:

unknown, probably Persia; copied by … ʿAlī b. Salīm Nahāwandī (p. 500).

Prov.:

a faded or erased statement, possibly dated 1252/1836-7, with an oval seal (p. 1; the same seal on p. 2). A Persian statement of purchase by Muḥammad Akbar Saʿīdī (?) Shāhrukh Shāhī in Bārfurūsh (Babul) dated 1254/1838-9, with an illegible oval seal (p. 1). An ownership statement by Shaykh Ṣādiq al-Zanjānī dated Ramaḍān 1330/August-September 1912 with an incomplete square seal and three small oval seals, all illegible (p. 1). An extensive waqf statement in mixed Arabic and Persian dated 22 Dhū l-qaʿda 1330/1 November 1912 in Zanjan; it labels the manuscript as an endowment by Khadīja Sulṭān Khānum Iḥtijāb al-Salṭana following the will of Āqā Shaykh Muḥammad Ṣādiq, assigns Āqā Shaykh Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn as the custodian, and stipulates that the Arbaʿ Maqālāt be used in teaching, learning, study, and discussion (p. 501); the word waqf is written over the full width of the top margins of many versos. A statement confirming the legal procedure of the waqf dated 14 Dhū l-qaʿda 1336/21 August 1918 (p. 501). Several imprints of an illegible small round seal (e.g., pp. 1, 500, 501). Persian poems by Saʿdī (p. 502). Microfilmed by the Markaz-i iḥyāʾ al-turāth al-Islāmī in Qom in 1417/1996-7 as microfilm no. 99 (library slip).

Cod.: paper, 502 pp. (paginated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pen at the centre top, possibly after the microfilming; catchwords by the scribe). A clear nastaʿlīq hand; mostly dotted ductus; some vowels, hamzas and shaddas frequently written. Headings and formulaic expressions apparently rubricated, additionally emphasised by thuluth script (up to section II.3 and again from p. 293 onwards, also as catch titles in the margins, e.g., on p. 47); paragraph beginnings overlined. The three horoscopes usually found in this commentary (pp. 423, 428, and 431). Dimensions: not provided; 21 lines per page. Manuscript in very good condition, some ink smudges (p. 161).

Cont.: astrology. — Index: Ptolemaica (pp. 2–500); waqf statement (p. 501). Blank: none.

Bibl.: Jaʿfar Ḥusaynī Ishkawarī and Ṣādiq Ḥusaynī Ishkawarī, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi ʿaksī-yi Markaz-i Iḥyāʾ-i Mīrāth-i Islāmī, vol. I, Qom: Markaz-i Iḥyāʾ-i Mīrāth-i Islāmī, 1998 (1377 H.S.), p. 221 (no. 99); 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. 973 (no. 18).

pp. 2–⁠500	\p. 1\ قال أبو الحسن عليّ ابن رضوان بن عليّ بن جعفر المتطبّب قصدنا أن نشرح أقاويل الحكيم بطلميوس في صناعة القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث — \p. 500\ فهذه أشياء قد شرحتها لك فأنعم النظر فيها وتأمّلها والله یهدي من يشاء إلى صراط مستقيم. = ʿAlī b. Riḍwān, Tafsīr al-Maqālāt al-arbaʿ (C.2.3) . — Title: Arbaʿ Maqālāt li-Baṭlamyūs (p. 1). — Index: I.1 (=I), pp. 2–47; I.2 (=II), pp. 47–93; I.3 (=III), pp. 93–130; II.1 (=IV), pp. 130–170; II.2 (=V), pp. 170–216; II.3 (=VI), pp. 217–250; III.1 (=VII), pp. 251–293; III.2 (=VIII), pp. 293–340; III.3 (=IX), pp. 340–392; IV.1 (=X), pp. 392–433; IV.2 (=XI), pp. 433–472; IV.3 (=XII), pp. 472–500. — Dated scribal colophon. Minor marginal corrections by the scribe; other annotations mostly by the owner Muḥammad Akbar (e.g., pp. 283, 286, and signed by him on pp. 353, 434, 496), who also provided additional horoscopes in the margins (pp. 299, 432, 454, and on pp. 452–453, 496 with extensive notes).

pp. 2–⁠500

\p. 1\ قال أبو الحسن عليّ ابن رضوان بن عليّ بن جعفر المتطبّب قصدنا أن نشرح أقاويل الحكيم بطلميوس في صناعة القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث — \p. 500\ فهذه أشياء قد شرحتها لك فأنعم النظر فيها وتأمّلها والله یهدي من يشاء إلى صراط مستقيم.

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

. — Title: Arbaʿ Maqālāt li-Baṭlamyūs (p. 1). — Index: I.1 (=I), pp. 2–47; I.2 (=II), pp. 47–93; I.3 (=III), pp. 93–130; II.1 (=IV), pp. 130–170; II.2 (=V), pp. 170–216; II.3 (=VI), pp. 217–250; III.1 (=VII), pp. 251–293; III.2 (=VIII), pp. 293–340; III.3 (=IX), pp. 340–392; IV.1 (=X), pp. 392–433; IV.2 (=XI), pp. 433–472; IV.3 (=XII), pp. 472–500. — Dated scribal colophon. Minor marginal corrections by the scribe; other annotations mostly by the owner Muḥammad Akbar (e.g., pp. 283, 286, and signed by him on pp. 353, 434, 496), who also provided additional horoscopes in the margins (pp. 299, 432, 454, and on pp. 452–453, 496 with extensive notes).