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Qom, Markaz-i Iḥyāʾ-i Mīrāth-i Islāmī, 3373⁢⁢⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

24 Shaʿbān 1078/8 February 1668 (p. 421).

Or.:

unknown; copied by Ibn Mīrk ʿAli Muḥammad Sāliḥ al-Yazdī; the almost identical phrasing of the colophon and the same marginal annotations in MS Istanbul, Millet, Ali Emiri 2742, copied in 894/1489, suggest a close relationship.

Prov.:

an erased oval seal next to a note with an incomplete date Dhū l-qaʿda … (?) (p. 1). A statement of purchase dated 1244/1828-9 and a seal dated to that same year with the name … Aḥmad (p. 1). An ownership statement by Muḥammad Ḥasan b. Aḥmad Nurāqī dated Rabīʿ al-awwal (?) 1257/April-May 1841, with a small oval seal (p. 1); horoscopes for the years 1236/1820-1 and 1257/1841-2 (p. 422). Probationes pennae, including western symbols for the zodiacal signs (p. 1). Stamp of the private library of Mīr Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥaddith Urmawī (1904–1979), dated 1330 hs/1951-2 (pp. 2, 421).

Cod.: paper, 422 pp. (paginated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in the upper centre; catchwords in the hand of the scribe). A very clear naskh hand; dotted ductus, occasional vowels, hamzas, and shaddas. Book and chapter titles and paragraph beginnings highlighted in red ink. Occasional catch titles in the margins in another hand, mostly rubricated (e.g., pp. 64, 102). Abjad notation with red overlines. The three horoscopes usually found in this commentary (pp. 355, 360, 362, in a different hand). Dimensions: 24.5×18 cm; 25 lines per page (misṭara imprints). Codex in very good condition; a few stains (pp. 330–336). Light brown leather covers with flap, becoming loose; covers over paper pasteboards with a thin golden frame, blind-stamped medallion, and pendants. Type II binding.

Cont.: astrology. — Index: Ptolemaica (pp. 2–421); notes and horoscopes (p. 422).

Bibl.: Aḥmad Ḥusaynī Ishkawarī, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Markaz-i Iḥyāʾ-i Mīrāth-i Islāmī, Vol. VIII: majmūʿa-yi Muḥaddith Urmawī, Qom: Markaz-i Iḥyāʾ-i Mīrāth-i Islāmī, 2005 (1384 H.S.), pp. 361–362; 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. 11).

pp. 2–⁠421	\p. 2\ قال أبو الحسن علي بن رضوان بن علي بن جعفر المتطبّب قصدنا أن نشرح أقاويل الحكيم بطلميوس في صناعة القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث — \p. 421\ فهذه ا{لأ}شياء 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) . — Title: Sharḥ Arbaʿ maqālāt Baṭlamyūs (p. 1). — Index: Book I.1 (=I), pp. 2–39; I.2 (=II), pp. 39–76; I.3 (=III), pp. 76–107; II.1 (=IV), pp. 107–142; II.2 (=V), pp. 142–182; II.3 (=VI), pp. 182–211; III.1 (=VII), pp. 211–247; VIII (=III.2), pp. 247–286; III.3 (=IX), pp. 286–329; IV.1 (=X), pp. 329–364; IV.2 (=XI), pp. 364–401; IV.3 (=XII), pp. 401–421. — Book IV with authorial colophon and dated scribal colophon (p. 421). Marginal corrections indicated by siglum ṣḥ; glosses and marginal notes in various hands, some including tables (pp. 97 and 98). Several coloured paper bookmarks (e.g., pp. 39, 329, 402). Verses of a Persian poem, written in red beside the colophon, in the scribe’s hand (p. 421).

pp. 2–⁠421

\p. 2\ قال أبو الحسن علي بن رضوان بن علي بن جعفر المتطبّب قصدنا أن نشرح أقاويل الحكيم بطلميوس في صناعة القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث — \p. 421\ فهذه ا{لأ}شياء 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)

. — Title: Sharḥ Arbaʿ maqālāt Baṭlamyūs (p. 1). — Index: Book I.1 (=I), pp. 2–39; I.2 (=II), pp. 39–76; I.3 (=III), pp. 76–107; II.1 (=IV), pp. 107–142; II.2 (=V), pp. 142–182; II.3 (=VI), pp. 182–211; III.1 (=VII), pp. 211–247; VIII (=III.2), pp. 247–286; III.3 (=IX), pp. 286–329; IV.1 (=X), pp. 329–364; IV.2 (=XI), pp. 364–401; IV.3 (=XII), pp. 401–421. — Book IV with authorial colophon and dated scribal colophon (p. 421). Marginal corrections indicated by siglum ṣḥ; glosses and marginal notes in various hands, some including tables (pp. 97 and 98). Several coloured paper bookmarks (e.g., pp. 39, 329, 402). Verses of a Persian poem, written in red beside the colophon, in the scribe’s hand (p. 421).