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Rampur, Raza Library, Arabic 4188

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

unknown, probably 11^th/17^th c. (ʿArshī).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

an illegible faded seal (1r and 94v [trimmed]; also found in MS Rampur, Raza, Arabic 2906, p. 312). Old shelfmark: ‘majmūʿ 366’ (1r); accession numbers: ‘8709 M’ in Arabic script (1r), ‘ST 13623 ’in pencil (1r).

Cod.: paper, 104 ff. (foliated with Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals; catchwords). A clear and dense black nastaʿlīq hand; mostly dotted ductus, vowels not indicated, occasional hamzas, no shaddas. Titles rubricated (some spaces for chapter headings reserved). No tables; blank spaces reserved for all three horoscopes usually found in this commentary (87r, 88v and 89r). Codex in good condition; slightly worm-eaten, some dirt and ink stains, sometimes affecting the readability; restorations of wormholes with transparent foil, inner margins of almost all pages glued on modern white paper (probably for the new binding). Dimensions: 27.5×18.2 cm; 36 lines per page. Modern black leather binding, title and author provided on the spine. Type III binding.

Cont.: astrology. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–104r).

Bibl.: Imtiyāz ʿAlī ʿArshī, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in Raza Library, Rampur, Vol. V: Mathematics, Medicine, Natural Science, Agriculture, Occult Sciences, Ethics & Politics, Education & Military Science, Rampur: Raza Library, 1975, pp. 476/7.

1v–⁠104r	\1v\ قال أبو الحسن علي بن رضوان بن علي بن جعفر المتطبّب: قصدنا أن نشرح أقاويل الحكيم بطلميوس في صناعة القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث — \104r\ فهذه أشياء قد شرحتها لك فانعم النظر فيها و ما يلها (كذا) والله يهدي من يشاء إلى صراط مستقيم. = ʿAlī b. Riḍwān, Tafsīr al-Maqālāt al-arbaʿ (C.2.3) . — Title: Sharḥ-i Baṭlamyūs dar ṭilasmāt (1r). — Index: Book I.1 (=I), 1v–10r; I.2 (=II), 10r–19r; I.3 (=III), 19r–26r; II.1 (=IV), 26r–32v; II.2 (=V), 32v–44v; II.3 (=VI), 44v–51r; III.1 (=VII), 51r–59v; III.2 (=VIII), 59v–69v; III.3 (=IX), 69v–81r; IV.1 (=X), 81r–89v; IV.2 (=XI), 89v–99r; IV.3 (=XII), 99r–104r. — Headings for chapters II.3 and IV.2 are missing. No scribal colophon. Minor marginal corrections by the scribe. Some annotations in other hands, often trimmed.

1v–⁠104r

\1v\ قال أبو الحسن علي بن رضوان بن علي بن جعفر المتطبّب: قصدنا أن نشرح أقاويل الحكيم بطلميوس في صناعة القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث — \104r\ فهذه أشياء قد شرحتها لك فانعم النظر فيها و ما يلها (كذا) والله يهدي من يشاء إلى صراط مستقيم.

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

. — Title: Sharḥ-i Baṭlamyūs dar ṭilasmāt (1r). — Index: Book I.1 (=I), 1v–10r; I.2 (=II), 10r–19r; I.3 (=III), 19r–26r; II.1 (=IV), 26r–32v; II.2 (=V), 32v–44v; II.3 (=VI), 44v–51r; III.1 (=VII), 51r–59v; III.2 (=VIII), 59v–69v; III.3 (=IX), 69v–81r; IV.1 (=X), 81r–89v; IV.2 (=XI), 89v–99r; IV.3 (=XII), 99r–104r. — Headings for chapters II.3 and IV.2 are missing. No scribal colophon. Minor marginal corrections by the scribe. Some annotations in other hands, often trimmed.