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Tehran, private library of Aṣghar Mahdawī, 282

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Collection of more than 30 works: Arabic and Persian. Date:

copied in Jumādā l-ūlā 1309/December 1891; the only three exact dates are the night of 6 Jumādā l-ūlā/8 December (first Ptolemaic work, p. 24); Tuesday, 19 Jumādā l-ūlā/22 December (p. 117), and Sunday, 24 Jumādā l-ūlā/27 December (p. 130); second Ptolemaic work undated.

Or.:

copied by Muḥammad Ṭāhir b. Walī Muḥammad al-Ṭabīb al-Shīrāzī al-Mashhadī (pp. 24, 199, 352, for the full name see DharīʿaĀqā Buzurg al-Ṭihrānī, al-Dharīʿa ilā taṣānīf al-Shīʿa, 25 vols, Najaf: Maṭbaʿat al-Gharī / Tehran: various publishers, 1936–1978 (1355–1398 H.), vol. XVIII, p. 13, no. 442); two months earlier al-Mashhadī had finished copying MS Mashhad, Āstān-i Quds, 12297, which contains the same works in a different order and partially with different titles.

Prov.:

minor marginal annotations in Persian giving authors and work titles in a fine nastaʿlīq hand (pp. I, 88). The codex was part of the private library of the Iranian bibliophile and scholar Aṣghar Mahdawī (1915–2004). Microfilmed by the Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-yi Dānishgāh-i Tehrān (F 1556).

Cod.: paper, II+352 pp. (paginated with Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals centred in the upper margins; catchwords). A single naskh hand; nearly fully dotted ductus with tanwīns, occasional vowel marks, frequent hamzas and some shaddas. Book headings in the first Ptolemaic work apparently mostly in red; headings of verba in the second Ptolemaic work highlighted. Carefully drawn diagrams in the first Ptolemaic work, some in the margins. Codex modestly decorated; frames for the main text likely in the same red, gold and blue colours as in MS Āstān-i Quds12297. Codex seemingly in very good condition; few stains. Dimensions: not provided; 33 lines per page.

Cont.: astronomy, physics, psychology, mathematics, mysticism, fiqh, geography, philosophy, kalām, and logic. — Index: table of contents listing 33 works (pp. I–II, in the hand of al-Mashhadī); Ptolemaica (pp. 2–24); anonymous, Risāla fī Maʿrifat al-alwān (pp. 24–25); anonymous, Kitāb fī Maʿrifat sinī l-mawālīd fī-l taḥwīl (pp. 25–59); Muḥammad Taqī b. Muḥammad al-Fārsī, Risāla fī Ḥisāb al-qamar (p. 60); astrological and astronomical tables from an unidentified work (pp. 62–83, in Persian, seemingly acephalous and titled Risāla fī-l-Nujūm in the table of contents); Abū l-Barakāt Hibat Allāh b. ʿAlī b. Malkā l-Baghdādī, Risāla fī Ruʾyat al-kawākib fī-l-layl lā fī-l-nahār (p. 84, ascribed to Ibn Sīnā); anonymous, Risāla fī stikhrāj al-muḍmar (pp. 85–88); five excerpts from a work on arithmetic by ʿImād al-Dīn Yaḥyā b. Aḥmad al-Kāshī (pp. 88–93); anonymous, Risāla 〈taḥqīq〉 fī l-ḥikma (p. 94); excerpt from Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd Shams al-Dīn Āmulī’s Nafāʾis al-funūn fī ʿarāʾis al-ʿuyūn (pp. 95–98, in Persian, here titled Fī ʿilm al-Farāsta); anonymous, Fī Bayān al-insān wa-kayfiyyāti-hi (pp. 99–101, in Persian); Maḥmūd b. ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Shabistarī, Mirʾāt al-muḥaqqiqīn (pp. 102–112, in Persian, followed by four sayings); anonymous, Masāʾil mutafarriqāt min sharḥ al-lumaʿāt (pp. 112–117, in Persian); Muḥammad Shīrīn Shams Maghribī, Jām-i jahān namā (pp. 118–122, in Persian); Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Ilahī l-Ardabīlī, Kashf-i asrār (pp. 122–130, in Persian); Mīr Muḥammad Muʾmin b. Mīr ʿAlī Ḥusaynī Astarābādī, Fī Bayān al-awzān (pp. 130–139, in Persian); Sharaf al-Dīn ʿAlī Yazdī, Fī Ḥisāb-i ʿuqūd-i al-ʿanāmil (pp. 140–141, in Persian); Ptolemaica (pp. 141–169); Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, Risāla fī-l-Ikhtiyārāt (pp. 169–193, in Persian); Muḥammad Amīn b. Mīrzā Jān al-Ḥijāzī, Fī l-Asṭurlāb (pp. 193–199, in Persian); Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Risāla-yi Bīst bāb dar maʿrifat-i asṭurlāb (pp. 199–210, in Persian); ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Qūshjī, Risāla dar ʿIlm al-ḥisāb (pp. 211–225, in Persian, incomplete); anonymous, 〈Risāla〉 dar ʿIlm-i shāna-bīnī ast (pp. 225–226, in Persian); Abū Maʿshar, Fī ttiṣālāt al-kawākib (pp. 226–232, here titled Risāla fī-l-Nujūm); an extract from an unknown mathematical work, titled Fī l-Hayʾa (pp. 233–236, in Persian); al-Bīrjandī, Āthār-i haft iqlīm (pp. 237–267, in Persian, incomplete, here titled Fī-l-Jughrāfīyā); Ismāʿīl b. Ḥassan al-Jurjānī, (Risāla) fī-l-Ṭibb (pp. 268–296, in Persian, incomplete); Maḥmūd b. Yaʿqūb al-Shīrāzī, 〈Qidam wa-ḥudūth al-ajsām〉 (pp. 297–299, in Persian); ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Jurjānī, 〈Risāla fī l-Maʿqūl wa-l-manqūl〉 (pp. 299–307, in Persian); Sharaf al-Dīn ʿAlī Yazdī, Ḥilal al-muṭarriz (pp. 307–321, in Persian); Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī l-Nīshābūrī, Muʿammayāt-i Mīr Ḥusayn (pp. 321–350, in Persian); a listing of 98 divine names of God (pp. 350–352, in Persian). Blank: p. 61 (except for the double frames).

Bibl.: NashriyyaNashriyya-yi Kitābkhana-yi Markaz-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 14 vols, Tehran: Kitābkhana-yi Markaz-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 1961–1977, vol. II, pp. 106–107; Muḥammad Taqī Dānishpazhūh, Fihrist-i mīkrūfīlmhā-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Markazī-yi Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, vol. I, Tehran: Dānishgāh-yi Tihrān, 1969 (1348 H.S.), p. 608; FankhāMuṣṭafā Dirāyatī, Fihristgān-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Īrān (Fankhā), 45 vols, Tehran: Library, Museum and Documentation Center of The Islamic Consultative Assembly, 2011–2014 (1390–1393 H.S.), vol. XXVIII, p. 132 (no. 2).

pp. 2–⁠24	\p. 2\ [title] قال أبو عبد اللّه محمّد بن أحمد الخارزمي (كذا) رحمه الله وبعد فإنّ كتاب المجسطي لبطليموس الذي هو عمدة النوع التعليميّ وقانون تحقيق الأرصاد — \p. 23\ في ظهور الخمسة المتحيّرة واختفائها \p. 24\ القول فيها كما نقدّم في الكواكب الثابتة. = al-Khāzimī, Ikhtiṣār al-Majisṭī (C.1.13) . — Title: Kitāb al-Majisṭī li-Abī ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Khārzimī ʿalay-hi al-raḥma (sic) (p. 2). — Additional title: Risālat al-Majisṭī li-Abī ʿAbdallāh Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Khāzimī (sic, table of contents, p. I). — Index: preface, pp. 2–4; Book I, pp. 4–7; II, pp. 7–9; III, pp. 9–11; IV, pp. 11–12; V, pp. 12–14; VI, pp. 14–15; VII, p. 15; VIII, pp. 15–16; IX, pp. 16–18; X, pp. 18–20; XI, p. 20; XII, pp. 20–21; XIII, pp. 21–24. Book IX erroneously headed al-maqāla al-ʿāshira, as in MS Mashhad, Āstān-i Quds, 12297 and its exemplar MS Mashhad, Āstān-i Quds, 5387. — Dated scribal colophon. Few marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe.
pp. 141–⁠169	\p. 141\ [title] أمّا بعد چنين گويد المخدوم المولاء المعظّم الصاحب الأعظم علّامة العالم مفخر بني آدم أفضل المتأخّرين نصير الحقّ والملّة والدين — \p. 169\ اين است تمامى كلمات ثمره و تفسير آن و در آخر كتاب بدين عبارت آورده واللّه أعلم بالصواب تمّت. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Tafsīr Kitāb al-Thamara (Arabic–Persian version) (C.3.4) . — Title: Tarjama-yi Kitāb-i Baṭlamyūs Thamara (p. 141). — Additional title: Tarjama-yi Kitāb-i Thamara-yi Baṭlamyūs (table of contents, p. II). — Index: preface, p. 141; Pseudo-Ptolemy’s introduction, p. 141; commentary on the introduction, pp. 141–142; 102 verba intertwined with the commentary, pp. 142–169. — No scribal colophon. Few marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe, indicated by siglum ṣḥ.

pp. 2–⁠24

\p. 2\ [title] قال أبو عبد اللّه محمّد بن أحمد الخارزمي (كذا) رحمه الله وبعد فإنّ كتاب المجسطي لبطليموس الذي هو عمدة النوع التعليميّ وقانون تحقيق الأرصاد — \p. 23\ في ظهور الخمسة المتحيّرة واختفائها \p. 24\ القول فيها كما نقدّم في الكواكب الثابتة.

= al-Khāzimī, Ikhtiṣār al-Majisṭī (C.1.13)

. — Title: Kitāb al-Majisṭī li-Abī ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Khārzimī ʿalay-hi al-raḥma (sic) (p. 2). — Additional title: Risālat al-Majisṭī li-Abī ʿAbdallāh Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Khāzimī (sic, table of contents, p. I). — Index: preface, pp. 2–4; Book I, pp. 4–7; II, pp. 7–9; III, pp. 9–11; IV, pp. 11–12; V, pp. 12–14; VI, pp. 14–15; VII, p. 15; VIII, pp. 15–16; IX, pp. 16–18; X, pp. 18–20; XI, p. 20; XII, pp. 20–21; XIII, pp. 21–24. Book IX erroneously headed al-maqāla al-ʿāshira, as in MS Mashhad, Āstān-i Quds, 12297 and its exemplar MS Mashhad, Āstān-i Quds, 5387. — Dated scribal colophon. Few marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe.

pp. 141–⁠169

\p. 141\ [title] أمّا بعد چنين گويد المخدوم المولاء المعظّم الصاحب الأعظم علّامة العالم مفخر بني آدم أفضل المتأخّرين نصير الحقّ والملّة والدين — \p. 169\ اين است تمامى كلمات ثمره و تفسير آن و در آخر كتاب بدين عبارت آورده واللّه أعلم بالصواب تمّت.

= Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Tafsīr Kitāb al-Thamara (Arabic–Persian version) (C.3.4)

. — Title: Tarjama-yi Kitāb-i Baṭlamyūs Thamara (p. 141). — Additional title: Tarjama-yi Kitāb-i Thamara-yi Baṭlamyūs (table of contents, p. II). — Index: preface, p. 141; Pseudo-Ptolemy’s introduction, p. 141; commentary on the introduction, pp. 141–142; 102 verba intertwined with the commentary, pp. 142–169. — No scribal colophon. Few marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe, indicated by siglum ṣḥ.