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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi markazi-i Dānishgāh-i Tehrān, 1971

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Collection of five works: Arabic. Date:

late 13^th/19^th century, probably bound in 1285/1868-9; treatise 1 (Ptolemaic work) copied in 1285/1868-9 (11v), treatise 2 in 1274/1857-8 (55r); table of contents added in 1285/1868-9 (1r).

Or.:

Iran; copied by Muʾmin Mūsawī Qummī, probably for personal use; Qummī also copied MS Mashhad, Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 15245, a collection of five works on the principles of Islamic jurisprudence, in 1258/1842-3.

Prov.:

unreadable ex-libris (1r). Ex-libris ‘Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-i Dānishgāh 1328’ (1r, 12v, 39v, 47v, I^av); blind-stamped ex-libris ‘Kitābkhāna-yi markazī/Central Library Tehran University’ (1v, 2v, 76v, 96v).

Cod.: machine-made European paper without watermarks, I+96+I^a ff. (unfoliated, except ff. 11v, 55v, 59r with Hindu-Arabic numerals, apparently skipping the empty f. 11^bis). A single very neat naskh hand; fully dotted ductus and occasional vowels. Book titles (only in treatises 2, 3, and 4) in black; chapter headings and abjad numerals in red, also for the numbering of Pseudo-Ptolemy’s verba; in treatise 5, chapter headings in black with overlines and underlines in red. Some trimmed vertical chapter headings in black ink in the margins of treatises 2–4; thus, the folios were cut and resized to bind this collection together, probably in 1285/1868-9 when the table of contents was added. Dimensions: 17.5×11 cm, written area: 14×7 cm; 15 lines per page. Moisture stains particularly in treatises 1 and 2; frequent mold stains throughout, although less in treatise 5. Cloth cover with vegetal motives; covers and spine bounded with black leather strips. Type III binding. Title ‘dar asṭurlāb’ (On the Astrolabe) in the upper left corner of the front cover.

Cont.: astronomy and astrology. — Index: table of contents dated 1285/1868-9 by a different naskh hand (1r); 1) Ptolemaica (1v–11v); 2) Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī, Fī ʿilm al-asṭurlāb (12v–55r); 3) anonymous, Fī maʿrifat samt al-qibla (55v–56r); 4) anonymous, Faṣl fī istiʿmāl al-asṭurlāb (56r–59r); 5) Qusṭā b. Lūqā, al-ʿAmal bi-l-kurat al-falakiyya (61v–96r); short text in Persian on an alchemical procedure (96v, in a different nastaʿlīq hand). Blank: 11^bis, 12r, 59v–61r, I^a.

Bibl.: Muḥammad Taqī Dānishpazhūh, Fihrist-i Kitābkhāna-yi Markazī-yi Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, vol. VIII: Nuskhahā-i khaṭṭī-yi shumārahā-i 1321 - 2120, Tehran: Chāpkhāna-yi Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 1961 (1339 H.S.), pp. 583–584; FankhāMuṣṭafā Dirāyatī, Fihristgān-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Īrān (Fankhā), 45 vols, Tehran: Library, Museum and Documentation Center of The Islamic Consultative Assembly, 20 2011, vol. IX, p. 723 (no. 8); furthermore vol. III, pp. 347 and 458; vol. IV, p. 656, and vol. XXX, p. 450.

1v–⁠11v	\1v\ قال بطلميوس: ا علم النجوم منك ومنها. ب وليس للعالم بها أن ينبئ بصورة الفعل الشخصيّة كما ليس للحاسّ أن يقبل صورة المحسوس الشخصيّة. لكن يقبل صورة موافقة لها — \11v\ ذو الدوابة يكون أبدًا من المغرب إلى المشرق فإنّ الخارجي ناي من بعد الإقليم. وإن لم يكن سائرًا، فإنّ الخارجي من حضرت الإقليم. وقد تمّ الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب. = Pseudo-Ptolemy, Kitāb al-Thamara (B.1.1) version with 102 verba. — Title: al-Thamara fī aḥkām al-nujūm li-Baṭlamyūs (table of contents, 1r). — Index: 102 verba, 1v–11r. — The verba are introduced by abjad numerals in red. Verbum 97 (here: 99) omitted in the body text and added in the margin (11r). No glosses.

1v–⁠11v

\1v\ قال بطلميوس: ا علم النجوم منك ومنها. ب وليس للعالم بها أن ينبئ بصورة الفعل الشخصيّة كما ليس للحاسّ أن يقبل صورة المحسوس الشخصيّة. لكن يقبل صورة موافقة لها — \11v\ ذو الدوابة يكون أبدًا من المغرب إلى المشرق فإنّ الخارجي ناي من بعد الإقليم. وإن لم يكن سائرًا، فإنّ الخارجي من حضرت الإقليم. وقد تمّ الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب.

= Pseudo-Ptolemy, Kitāb al-Thamara (B.1.1)

version with 102 verba. — Title: al-Thamara fī aḥkām al-nujūm li-Baṭlamyūs (table of contents, 1r). — Index: 102 verba, 1v–11r. — The verba are introduced by abjad numerals in red. Verbum 97 (here: 99) omitted in the body text and added in the margin (11r). No glosses.