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Isfahan, Dānishgāh-i Iṣfahān, 214

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

undated; 11^th/17^th c. (Ḥusayni Ishkawarī).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

two ownership statements by Mullā Muḥammad Taqī Majlisī (1r), a faqīh from Isfahan (d. 1070/1660). Ownership statement with oval seal by Abū l-Qāsim al-Ḥusaynī (1r). Partially erased ownership statement of ʿAlī Naqī … (?) with oval seal (1r). At least three erased statements (1r). Former shelfmark (?): 〈1〉104 (1r, twice). Library stamps (1r, 357v); registration no. 8099, with date 29.12.〈13〉53/20 March 1975 (1r).

Cod.: paper, 357 ff. (foliated with Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in pen up to f. 21, continued in this description; loose or inbound slips of paper after ff. 28, 77, 149, 172 and 201; Hindu-Arabic quire numbers for quaternions in the upper left corner, only partially visible; catchwords). A single neat naskh hand; mostly dotted ductus with few vowel marks, some hamzas, shaddas mainly in the beginning; final kāfs are mostly indicated with a second smaller kāf above. Book and chapter headings and qawlu-hu in red; some use of red or black overlines for highlighting. Abjad numerals overlined or in red; Persian variants of Hindu-Arabic numerals in red. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or vice-versa, sometimes in the margins; corrected diagrams on the loose or inbound slips of paper. Tables with red or black lines; blank space for the table in section I.12 (42v). Codex in very good condition; some stains (e.g., on ff. 88–89, 275) and minor water damage (e.g., ff. 35–41); pasted slips of paper on f. 1r. Dimensions: 25.5×18.5 cm; 22 lines per page. Red leather covers; doublures with marbled paper. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–357v). Blank: none.

Bibl.: Jaʿfar Ḥusayni Ishkawarī, Fihrist nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī Kitbkhāna-yi markazī wa-Markaz-i asnād-i Dānishgāh-i Iṣfahān, vol. I: (1–400), 2nd ed., Qom: Dānishgāh-yi Iṣfahān, 2012 (1391 H.S.), pp. 165–166; 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. XIX, p. 276 (no. 2).

1v–⁠357v	\1v\ الحمد للّه الذي جعلنا من المتفكّرين في خلق السموات والأرض وألهمنا طريق معرفة مقادير حركات الأجرام النيّرة في الطول والعرض — \357v\ ومراد له الرياضيّات ويلهمني معرفة طريق السواد ويسهل على سلوك سبيل الرشاد والحمد للّه أوّلًا وآخرًا. = al-Birjandī, Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.44) . — Title: … bar (?) Majisṭī Baṭlamyūs (fore-edge). — Additional Title: Kitāb dar Nujūm (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–2v; Book I, 2v–61v; II, 61v–89r; III, 89r–120v; IV, 120v–140v; V, 140v–181v; VI, 181v–216v; VII, 216v–236v; 〈VIII〉, 236v–268v; IX, 268v–292v; X/XI, 292v–311v/301r–317r; XII, 317r–334r; XIII, 334r–357v. Book VI erroneously headed al-maqāla al-sādith (sic), Book XII al-maqāla al-thālitha ʿashr. — No authorial or scribal colophon. Marginal corrections and annotations up to section III.5 (113r). Corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Long annotations in a fine nastaʿlīq hand, including corrected or additional diagrams (e.g., 100r–101r, 102v–103r) and additional tables (107r–v, 110v), all in black. Some of the annotations are labelled ʿAbd al-Wāsiʿ Dāmī (e.g., 101r, 104v) or ʿAbd al-Wāsiʿ dāma ḍillu-hu (e.g., 52r, 53r) and hence date from the lifetime of the poet Mullā ʿAbd al-Wāsiʿ al-Dāmī b. Mullā Kalb ʿAlī (d. 1173/1759-60), who owned MS Los Angeles, UCLA, Caro Minasian 40 of al-Nīsābūrī’s Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) and annotated it based on al-Birjandī’s commentary. Collation marks blgh (e.g., 42r, 65v, 71v).

1v–⁠357v

\1v\ الحمد للّه الذي جعلنا من المتفكّرين في خلق السموات والأرض وألهمنا طريق معرفة مقادير حركات الأجرام النيّرة في الطول والعرض — \357v\ ومراد له الرياضيّات ويلهمني معرفة طريق السواد ويسهل على سلوك سبيل الرشاد والحمد للّه أوّلًا وآخرًا.

= al-Birjandī, Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.44)

. — Title: … bar (?) Majisṭī Baṭlamyūs (fore-edge). — Additional Title: Kitāb dar Nujūm (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–2v; Book I, 2v–61v; II, 61v–89r; III, 89r–120v; IV, 120v–140v; V, 140v–181v; VI, 181v–216v; VII, 216v–236v; 〈VIII〉, 236v–268v; IX, 268v–292v; X/XI, 292v–311v/301r–317r; XII, 317r–334r; XIII, 334r–357v. Book VI erroneously headed al-maqāla al-sādith (sic), Book XII al-maqāla al-thālitha ʿashr. — No authorial or scribal colophon. Marginal corrections and annotations up to section III.5 (113r). Corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Long annotations in a fine nastaʿlīq hand, including corrected or additional diagrams (e.g., 100r–101r, 102v–103r) and additional tables (107r–v, 110v), all in black. Some of the annotations are labelled ʿAbd al-Wāsiʿ Dāmī (e.g., 101r, 104v) or ʿAbd al-Wāsiʿ dāma ḍillu-hu (e.g., 52r, 53r) and hence date from the lifetime of the poet Mullā ʿAbd al-Wāsiʿ al-Dāmī b. Mullā Kalb ʿAlī (d. 1173/1759-60), who owned MS Los Angeles, UCLA, Caro Minasian 40 of al-Nīsābūrī’s Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) and annotated it based on al-Birjandī’s commentary. Collation marks blgh (e.g., 42r, 65v, 71v).