London, British Library, Add. 7476
undated; 10th/16th or 11th/17th c.
Or.:unknown, probably Persian; copied by Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Hamadānī (343r).
Prov.:statement of ownership with the name erased, dating the purchase of the manuscript to 1080/1669-70 (343r). An octagonal seal by Claudius James Rich (d. 1822), dated 1812, with the famous quatrain by Saʿadī balagha l-ʿulā bi-kamāli-hi, kashafa al-dujā bi-jamāli-hi, ḥasunat jamīʿu khiṣāli-hi, ṣallū ʿalay-hi wa-āli-hi from the preface of the Gulistān (1v).
Cod.: paper, II+343+IIa ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil; no catchwords). A single black cursive naskh hand; almost fully undotted ductus, no shaddas, hamzas or vowels. Numerals and abjad notation in black without overlines. Book headings in cursive red or black naskh overlined in red; chapter headings in black overlined in red introduced by the term faṣl. Substantial diagrams in red and black; few tables, table lines in black with abjad numbers in red. Codex in excellent condition; no moisture or mold stains, last leaf damaged and restored. Dimensions: 252×132 mm, written area: 195×90 mm; 23 lines per page. Covers in reddish leather over paper pasteboards with fillets. Type III binding.
Cont.: astronomy. —
Bibl.: William Cureton and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens, pars II, London: Curatorum Musei Britannici, 1852, p. 187 (no.
1v–343r
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\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كـلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن رسيل من أغلق يمينه بشكر تمري الزيادة فأحمده على ما أولانا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض — \343r\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظه فلحظه لسعادة ويسرى ويجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة وبشرى ويرحم الله عبدا قال أمينا. = Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38)
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