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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi markazi-i Dānishgāh-i Tehrān, 474

Single work: Arabic. Date:

completed in 1236/1820-1 (171r).

Or.:

unknown, probably Iran; copied by Ḥusayn (171r).

Prov.:

two fainted oval seals (1r). Seals of the Central Library of Tehran University (Ir, IIr, 1r, 3r, 5v, I^av). Old shelfmark: ‘60’ (Ir).

Cod.: paper, II+171+I^a ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals at the middle top of versos; catchwords). A single small and readable naskh hand in black. Inconsistently dotted ductus; no vowels or shaddas and minor hamzas. Book and chapter headings in red; the word qāla introducing text by Ptolemy and by ʿAlī b. Riḍwān in red. Minor tables and horoscopes. Codex in very good condition; some mold stains, minor ink smudges; severe wear of the covers. Dimensions: 31×20 cm, written area: 22×12 cm; 24 lines per page. Cover in green leather over paper pasteboards; blind-stamped medallion and pendants on covers. Type III binding.

Cont.: astrology. — Index: a biographical note about Ptolemy and a table of contents (IIr–v); Ptolemaica (1v–171r). Blank: Iv.

Bibl.: Muḥammad Taqī Dānishpazhūh, Fihrist-i Kitābkhāna-i ihdāʾī-i Āqā Sayyid Muḥammad Mishkāt bih Kitābkhāna-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, vol. III/2 [=4], Tehran: Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 1953 (1332 H.S.), pp. 862–863; 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. 17).

1v–⁠170v	\1v\ قال أبو الحسن علي بن رضوان بن علي بن جعفر المتطبب: قصدنا أن نشرح أقاويل الحكيم بطلميوس في صناعة القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث — \170v\ فهذه أشياء قد شرحتها لك فانعم النظر فيها وتأملها والله يهدي من صراط مستقيم. = ʿAlī ibn Riḍwān, Tafsīr al-Maqālāt al-arbaʿ (C.2.3) . — Title: Tafsīr Abī l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Riḍwān b. Jaʿfar al-mutaṭabbib li-Kitāb al-Arbaʿa Baṭlamyūs al-Qalūdī fī l-qaḍāʾ bi-l-nujūm ʿalā l-ḥawādith (171r). — Index: Book I.1 (=I), 1v–19r; I.2 (=II), 19r–37r; I.3 (=III), 37r–50r; II.1 (=IV), 50r–64r; II.2 (=V), 64r–79v; II.3 (=VI), 79v–91r; III.1 (=VII), 91r–105r; III.2 (=VIII), 105r–120v; III.3 (=IX), 120v–137r; IV.1 (=X), 137r–149v; IV.2 (=XI), 150r–163r; IV.3 (=XII), 163r–171r. — Dated scribal colophon. Hardly any marginal corrections. Some additions in the margins in a nastaʿlīq hand. Several inlaid slips of paper with horoscopes and tables. No glosses.

1v–⁠170v

\1v\ قال أبو الحسن علي بن رضوان بن علي بن جعفر المتطبب: قصدنا أن نشرح أقاويل الحكيم بطلميوس في صناعة القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث — \170v\ فهذه أشياء قد شرحتها لك فانعم النظر فيها وتأملها والله يهدي من صراط مستقيم.

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

. — Title: Tafsīr Abī l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Riḍwān b. Jaʿfar al-mutaṭabbib li-Kitāb al-Arbaʿa Baṭlamyūs al-Qalūdī fī l-qaḍāʾ bi-l-nujūm ʿalā l-ḥawādith (171r). — Index: Book I.1 (=I), 1v–19r; I.2 (=II), 19r–37r; I.3 (=III), 37r–50r; II.1 (=IV), 50r–64r; II.2 (=V), 64r–79v; II.3 (=VI), 79v–91r; III.1 (=VII), 91r–105r; III.2 (=VIII), 105r–120v; III.3 (=IX), 120v–137r; IV.1 (=X), 137r–149v; IV.2 (=XI), 150r–163r; IV.3 (=XII), 163r–171r. — Dated scribal colophon. Hardly any marginal corrections. Some additions in the margins in a nastaʿlīq hand. Several inlaid slips of paper with horoscopes and tables. No glosses.