`_`	(the underscore) is the placeholder for exactly one character.
`%`	(the percent sign) is the placeholder for no, one or more than one character.
`%%`	(two percent signs) is the placeholder for no, one or more than one character, but not for blank space (so that a search ends at word boundaries).

Mashhad, Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 17665

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single work, incomplete at beginning and end: Arabic. Date:

unknown, 11^th/17^th c. (library slip).

Or.:

unknown; unknown copyist.

Prov.:

no ownership statements or other notes (title page missing). This was previously MS 4 in the private library of Mīrzā Abū l-Ḥasan Pīshnamāz in Āmul, who endowed several dozens of manuscripts to the Āstān-i quds in Farwardīn 1369/1990; cf. Nashriyya.

Cod.: paper, 148 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals; catchwords, sometimes not repeated at the beginning of the following recto, e.g., 77v/78r). A very clear naskh hand in black. Mostly dotted ductus, hamzas and shaddas often provided, occasional vowel marks. Book titles, chapter and paragraph beginnings in red ink or with red overlines. Abjad notation in the main text overlined. No tables or diagrams. Water damage in all margins, occasional mould stains (not affecting the readability). Codex in acceptable condition; significant water damage on all upper and outer edges; the title page and incipit page, one leaf after f. 6 as well as a large number of pages at the end lost. Dimensions: 25.9×19 cm; mostly 21–23 lines per page. Bound in a modern partial leather binding, brown fabric used for both covers, dark brown leather on spine and edges. Type III binding.

Cont.: astrology. — Index: Ptolemaica (1r–148v).

Bibl.: NashriyyaNashriyya-yi Kitābkhana-yi Markaz-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 14 vols, Tehran: Kitābkhana-yi Markaz-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 1961–1977, vol. V, p. 400; 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, pp. 972–973 (nos 3 and 9).

1r–⁠148v	\1r\ \|\| وعددها والحركات السماويّة التي يتعرّف منها عدد الحركتين ومن أجل هذا انقسمت هذا الصناعة إلى جزئين عظيمين أحدهما يسمّى علم النجوم التعليميّ — \148v\ وأشياء من الخرافات كثيرة وأمّا أنا فأظنّ ذلك عجزًا منهم أو شرارة أمّا العجر فإنّ هذا الكتاب غامض المعاني \|\| = ʿAlī b. Riḍwān, Tafsīr al-Maqālāt al-arbaʿ (C.2.3) .— Title: Tafsīr Kitāb al-Arbaʿa li-Baṭlamyūs (inserted library note). — Index: preface (beginning missing), 1r–3r; Book I.1 (one folio missing), 3r–22v; I.2, 22v–46r; I.3, 46r–64v; II.1, 64v–86r; II.2, 86r–114v; II.3, 114v–135r; III.1 (incomplete at the end), 135r–148v. — No colophon. Book III.1 breaks off in the middle of chapter 3. Occasional syntactical glossing marks in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals. Some conjectures indicated by siglum ẓ. Numerous marginal corrections in different hands, mostly indicated by sigla ṣ and ṣḥ.

1r–⁠148v

\1r\ || وعددها والحركات السماويّة التي يتعرّف منها عدد الحركتين ومن أجل هذا انقسمت هذا الصناعة إلى جزئين عظيمين أحدهما يسمّى علم النجوم التعليميّ — \148v\ وأشياء من الخرافات كثيرة وأمّا أنا فأظنّ ذلك عجزًا منهم أو شرارة أمّا العجر فإنّ هذا الكتاب غامض المعاني ||

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

.— Title: Tafsīr Kitāb al-Arbaʿa li-Baṭlamyūs (inserted library note). — Index: preface (beginning missing), 1r–3r; Book I.1 (one folio missing), 3r–22v; I.2, 22v–46r; I.3, 46r–64v; II.1, 64v–86r; II.2, 86r–114v; II.3, 114v–135r; III.1 (incomplete at the end), 135r–148v. — No colophon. Book III.1 breaks off in the middle of chapter 3. Occasional syntactical glossing marks in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals. Some conjectures indicated by siglum ẓ. Numerous marginal corrections in different hands, mostly indicated by sigla ṣ and ṣḥ.