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

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

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; books indicated in the top outer corner of versos and chapters indicated in the top outer corner of rectos on the first 55 folios; 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. 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 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 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 fifty 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 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 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 fifty folios in a nastaʿlīq hand.