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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi Majlis-i shurā-yi Islāmī, 1440 S

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and front cover.]

Incomplete single work, the first of a two-volume set: Arabic. Date:

undated; 7^th/13^th c. (Dānishpazhūh & Anwārī).

Or.:

unknown, probably Persian; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

no statements of ownership or sale. Old shelfmarks: ‘Majlis-i Sinā 1573’/‘20366’ (inside front cover, 1r), ‘Majlis-i Sinā 1573’ (167v), ‘Majlis-i shurā-yi Islāmī 8520’ (inside front cover).

Cod.: paper, 167 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil, beginning with ‘1’ after the missing first folio; quire numbers in the form ‘thānī min al-awwal’ in the upper left corneer of every tenth recto; the second to fifth folios of each quire numbered with Hindu-Arabic numerals in the form ‘2/3/4/5 min 2 min 1’; no catchwords). A single clear black naskh hand; fully dotted ductus with occasional vowels and shaddas; no hamzas. Centered book headings; occasional centered chapter headings; sections occasionally separated with red overlines in Book I; figures in Book I numbered with abjad letters in red in the margin. Substantial figures; no tables. Codex in acceptable condition; moisture stains in the bottom part, particularly from f. 119r to the end; substantially worm-eaten, but restored; torn upper corners on ff. 1 and 4. Dimensions: 20×14 cm, written area: 16×10 cm; 17 lines per page. Brown pasteboard covers with a mandorla; covers and spine bounded with brown leather strips. Type II binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1r–167v). Blank: 168r–v.

Bibl.: Muḥammad Taqī Dānishpazhūh and Bahāʾ al-Dīn ʿIlmī Anwārī, Fihrist-i kutub-i khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Majlis-i Shūrā-yi Islāmī, shumāra-yi dū (Sinā-yi sābiq), vol. II, Tehran: Kitābhāna-yi Majlis-i Shūrā-yi Islāmī, 1980 (1359 H.S.), p. 255; 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. XX, p. 640 (no. 1); José Bellver, ‘The Arabic Versions of Jābir b. Aflaḥ’s al-Kitāb fī l-Hayʾa’, in David Juste, Benno van Dalen, Dag Nikolaus Hasse and Charles Burnett (eds), Ptolemy’s Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages, Turnhout: Brepols, 2020, pp. 181–199, esp. pp. 188–189. Majlis Library online catalogue: https://dlib.ical.ir/site/catalogue/510317 (currently unavailable).

1r–⁠167v	\1r\ \|\| يأذن الله لها بذلك فيه والطرق المؤدية الى مـ{...}ـته طرق بيّنة بقينية فحصل له القصل من وجوه {...} وكان بطليموس القلودي قد جمع ما أدركه القدماء قبله وأضـ{...}ـف إليه ما أدركه هو بعدهم وسطر ذلك في جميع كـ{...}به المعروف بالمجسطي فكان بذلك رب النعمة الجزيلة الجمـ{...}ـة — \167v\ فقد تبين كيف توجد النقطة من معدل النهار وفلك البروج التي يتوسط السماء والتي تطلع وتغرب مع الكوكب وذلك ما أردنا بيانه. وأما معرفة القسي من فلك البروج التي تكون بين الشمس والكوكب في أول ظهوره واختفائه فسنبين كيف يوجد مقاديرها في آخر الكتاب في الكواكب السيّارة على الاستقصاء، إن شاء الله تعالى. تمّت المقالة السادسة بحمد الله وعونه. = Jābir ibn Aflaḥ, al-Kitāb fī l-Hayʾa (C.1.14) , Books I–VI. — Title: Kitāb fī ʿilm al-hayʾa. Sharḥ-i Majisṭī (inside front cover). — Additional title: Sharḥ bar Majisṭī (1r). — Index: author’s preface, 1r–4r; Book I, 4v–34v; II, 35r–64r; III, 64r–77r; IV, 77v–105r; V, 105v–146r; VI, 146v–167v. — Very minor marginal additions and hardly any corrections (except for f. 97r); a couple of glosses, one criticizing the author for knowing nothing about astronomy (50v). Version close to MS Berlin, SBPK, Landberg 132, although the text skips many words. The absence of authorial or scribal colophons and the numbering of the quires point to this manuscript being the first of a two-volume set. Mohammad Mozaffari (private communication) identified this otherwise anonymous manuscript as the Kitāb fī l-Hayʾa (Iṣlāḥ al-Majisṭī) by Jābir b. Aflaḥ in September 2015.

1r–⁠167v

\1r\ || يأذن الله لها بذلك فيه والطرق المؤدية الى مـ{...}ـته طرق بيّنة بقينية فحصل له القصل من وجوه {...} وكان بطليموس القلودي قد جمع ما أدركه القدماء قبله وأضـ{...}ـف إليه ما أدركه هو بعدهم وسطر ذلك في جميع كـ{...}به المعروف بالمجسطي فكان بذلك رب النعمة الجزيلة الجمـ{...}ـة — \167v\ فقد تبين كيف توجد النقطة من معدل النهار وفلك البروج التي يتوسط السماء والتي تطلع وتغرب مع الكوكب وذلك ما أردنا بيانه. وأما معرفة القسي من فلك البروج التي تكون بين الشمس والكوكب في أول ظهوره واختفائه فسنبين كيف يوجد مقاديرها في آخر الكتاب في الكواكب السيّارة على الاستقصاء، إن شاء الله تعالى. تمّت المقالة السادسة بحمد الله وعونه.

= Jābir ibn Aflaḥ, al-Kitāb fī l-Hayʾa (C.1.14)

, Books I–VI. — Title: Kitāb fī ʿilm al-hayʾa. Sharḥ-i Majisṭī (inside front cover). — Additional title: Sharḥ bar Majisṭī (1r). — Index: author’s preface, 1r–4r; Book I, 4v–34v; II, 35r–64r; III, 64r–77r; IV, 77v–105r; V, 105v–146r; VI, 146v–167v. — Very minor marginal additions and hardly any corrections (except for f. 97r); a couple of glosses, one criticizing the author for knowing nothing about astronomy (50v). Version close to MS Berlin, SBPK, Landberg 132, although the text skips many words. The absence of authorial or scribal colophons and the numbering of the quires point to this manuscript being the first of a two-volume set. Mohammad Mozaffari (private communication) identified this otherwise anonymous manuscript as the Kitāb fī l-Hayʾa (Iṣlāḥ al-Majisṭī) by Jābir b. Aflaḥ in September 2015.