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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi Majlis-i shurā-yi Islāmī, 4991

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

completed in 1254/1838 (185v).

Or.:

Tehran (185v); copied by Muḥammad-taqī al-Iṣfahānī (185v).

Prov.:

a statement of purchase at the Dār al-Khilāfa dated 1256/1840 (185v). An oval seal (Ir, 185v); library stamp (IIr, 185v). Old shelfmark: ‘618’ (Ir).

Cod.: paper, II+186 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in the upper left corner of the outer frame up to f. 96, supplemented by us; ‘184 waraq’ on f. 185v, ‘185’ on f. 186r in a different hand; catchwords in nastaʿlīq). A single small naskh hand in black; almost fully dotted ductus; hardly any vowels, shaddas or hamzas. Frequent overlines to punctuate the text. Book and chapter headings mostly in red; the words qāla Baṭlamyūs and qāla al-mufassir mostly in red or overlined in black. Books indicated in the top outer corner of versos and chapters in the top outer corner of rectos on the first 55 folios. No tables; minor horoscopes. Body text enclosed in a double-line frame in red and blue; an additional frame in red on the outer margins. Codex in excellent condition; some mold stains; minor ink smudges. Dimensions: 31×21 cm, written area: 21.5×13.5 cm; 21 lines per page. Covers in brown leather. Type III binding.

Cont.: astrology. — Index: Ptolemaica (IIv–185v). Blank: Iv, 96r, 186r–v.

Bibl.: Aḥmad Munzawī, Fihrist-i Kitābkhāna-i Majlis-i Shūrā-i Millī. Kutub-i khaṭṭī-i fārsī wa-ʿarabī, vol. XIV, Tehran: Majlis-i Shūrā-yi Millī, 1968 (1347 H.S.), p. 282; 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. 21). Majlis Library online catalogue: https://dlib.ical.ir/site/catalogue/499076 (currently unavailable).

IIv–⁠185v	\IIv\ قال أبو الحسن علي بن رضوان بن علي بن جعفر المتطبب: قصدنا أن نشرح أقاويل الحكيم بطلميوس في صناعة القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث — \185v\ فهذه أشياء قد شرحتها لك فانعم النظر فيها وتأملها والله يهدي من يشاء إلى صراط مستقيم. = ʿAlī b. 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 li-Baṭlamyūs al-Qalūdhī fī l-qaḍāʾ bi-l-nujūm ʿalā l-ḥawādith (185v). — Index: Book I.1 (=I), IIv–18r; I.2 (=II), 18r–36r; I.3 (=III), 36r–49v; II.1 (=IV), 49v–66r; II.2 (=V), 66r–83r; II.3 (=VI), 83r–95v; III.1 (=VII), 96v–112r; III.2 (=VIII), 112r–128v; III.3 (=IX), 128v–147v; IV.1 (=X), 147v–161v; IV.2 (=XI), 161v–177r; IV.3 (=XII), 177r–185v. — Dated scribal colophon. Minor marginal corrections. Substantial glosses on the first 50 folios in a nastaʿlīq hand.

IIv–⁠185v

\IIv\ قال أبو الحسن علي بن رضوان بن علي بن جعفر المتطبب: قصدنا أن نشرح أقاويل الحكيم بطلميوس في صناعة القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث — \185v\ فهذه أشياء قد شرحتها لك فانعم النظر فيها وتأملها والله يهدي من يشاء إلى صراط مستقيم.

= ʿAlī b. 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 li-Baṭlamyūs al-Qalūdhī fī l-qaḍāʾ bi-l-nujūm ʿalā l-ḥawādith (185v). — Index: Book I.1 (=I), IIv–18r; I.2 (=II), 18r–36r; I.3 (=III), 36r–49v; II.1 (=IV), 49v–66r; II.2 (=V), 66r–83r; II.3 (=VI), 83r–95v; III.1 (=VII), 96v–112r; III.2 (=VIII), 112r–128v; III.3 (=IX), 128v–147v; IV.1 (=X), 147v–161v; IV.2 (=XI), 161v–177r; IV.3 (=XII), 177r–185v. — Dated scribal colophon. Minor marginal corrections. Substantial glosses on the first 50 folios in a nastaʿlīq hand.