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Qom, Kitābkhāna-yi ʿumūmī-yi Ḥaḍrat-i Āyat Allāh al-ʿuẓmā Gulpāygānī, 16/32 (3022)

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

undated; 11^th/17^th c. (Fankha).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

oval seal of Muḥammad Ismāʿīl b. Badīʿ al-Zamān al-Ḥusaynī below the colophon (281r). Ownership statement dated 1196/1781-2 (f. 1r according to Khūʾī & Bābulī, not seen). Persian statement of purchase for 5 riyāl by ʿAbd al-Wahhāb from Mashhadī Ṣāliḥ Kāshānī, dated 9 Shawwāl 1305/19 June 1888 (281r). Two different stamps of the Gulpāygānī Library (e.g., 1v, 184v, 281r); the library was founded by the Shia scholar Āyat Allāh Sayyid Muḥammad Riḍā Gulpāygānī (1899–1993) shortly before his death.

Cod.: paper, 281 ff. (unfoliated; catchwords). A black nastaʿlīq hand; mostly dotted ductus, only very few vowel marks, hamzas and shaddas except in the beginning; frequent elongated descenders. Book and chapter headings and qāla in red; heading of Book II.2 not highlighted, blank space reserved for heading of Book III.2. The three horoscopes usually found in this commentary in red and black (241r, 242v, 244v). Codex in acceptable condition; upper margins of ff. 1–19 heavily damaged by rodents, affecting the readability; minor moisture damage; a large stain in the outer margin of f. 263; binding apparently loose. Dimensions: 25×13 cm; 25 lines per page. Brown leather binding with fore-edge and envelope-flap; front doublure with marbled paper. Type II binding.

Cont.: astrology. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–281r). Blank: none.

Bibl.: ʿAlī Ṣadrāyī Khūʾī and Abū Faḍl Ḥāfiẓiyān Bābulī, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi ʿumūmī-i Āyat Allāh Gulpāyagānī (Qum), vol. II: 〈1721–3321〉, Tehran: Kitābkhāna, mūza wa-markaz asnād-i Majlis-i Shūrā-yi Islāmī, 2009 (1388 H.S.), p. 970 (no. 2906); 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. XVIII, p. 972 (no. 5).

1v–⁠281r	\1v\ قال أبو الحسن علي بن رضوان بن علي بن جعفر المتطبّب: قصدنا أن نشرح أقاويل الحكيم بطلميوس في صناعة القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث — \281r\ فهذه أشياء قد شرحتها لك فانعم النظر فيها وتأمّلها والله يهدي من إلى صراط مستقيم. تمّ تفسير أبي الحسن علي بن رضوان بن جعفر المتطبّب لكتاب الأربعة بطليموس القلوذي في القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث وهو آخر الكتاب والتفسير بأسره والحمد لله وحده وصلوته على سيّدنا محمّد وآله الطيبين الطاهرين. = ʿAlī b. Riḍwān, Tafsīr al-Maqālāt al-arbaʿ (C.2.3) . — Title: none. — Index: Book I.1 (=I), 1v–25r; I.2 (=II), 25r–52r; I.3 (=III), 52r–74r; II.1 (=IV), 74r–99r; II.2 (=V), 99r–126v; II.3 (=VI), 126v–145v; III.1 (=VII), 145v–171v; III.2 (=VIII), 171v–198v; III.3 (=IX), 198v–226r; IV.1 (=X), 226r–245v; IV.2 (=XI), 245v–268v; IV.3 (=XII), 268v–281r. — Some marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated with siglum ṣḥ; arrow-shaped paper tabs, pasted and folded around the fore-edge, pointing to the beginnings of Books I.2, II.1, III.1, and III.3.

1v–⁠281r

\1v\ قال أبو الحسن علي بن رضوان بن علي بن جعفر المتطبّب: قصدنا أن نشرح أقاويل الحكيم بطلميوس في صناعة القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث — \281r\ فهذه أشياء قد شرحتها لك فانعم النظر فيها وتأمّلها والله يهدي من إلى صراط مستقيم. تمّ تفسير أبي الحسن علي بن رضوان بن جعفر المتطبّب لكتاب الأربعة بطليموس القلوذي في القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث وهو آخر الكتاب والتفسير بأسره والحمد لله وحده وصلوته على سيّدنا محمّد وآله الطيبين الطاهرين.

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

. — Title: none. — Index: Book I.1 (=I), 1v–25r; I.2 (=II), 25r–52r; I.3 (=III), 52r–74r; II.1 (=IV), 74r–99r; II.2 (=V), 99r–126v; II.3 (=VI), 126v–145v; III.1 (=VII), 145v–171v; III.2 (=VIII), 171v–198v; III.3 (=IX), 198v–226r; IV.1 (=X), 226r–245v; IV.2 (=XI), 245v–268v; IV.3 (=XII), 268v–281r. — Some marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated with siglum ṣḥ; arrow-shaped paper tabs, pasted and folded around the fore-edge, pointing to the beginnings of Books I.2, II.1, III.1, and III.3.