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Mashhad, Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 29012

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

Rabīʿ al-thānī 1237/December 1821-January 1822 (p. 500).

Or.:

unknown, probably Persia. Copied by ʿAlī b. Salīm Nahāwandī (p. 500).

Prov.:

a partially erased statement, possibly dated 1242/1826-27, with an oval seal (p. 1). A Persian statement of purchase by Muḥammad Akbar Saʿīdī (?) Shāhrukh Shāhī … dated 1254/1838-9, with a smudged oval seal (p. 1). An ownership statement by Shaykh Ṣādiq Zanjānī dated Ramaḍān 1330/August-September 1912 with an incomplete square seal and three small oval seals, all illegible (p. 1). An extensive waqf statement in mixed Arabic and Persian dated 22 Dhū l-qaʿda 1330/1 November 1912 in Zanjan (p. 501); it labels the manuscript as an endowment by Khadīja Sulṭān Khānum Iḥtijāb al-Salṭana following the will of Āqā Shaykh Muḥammad Ṣādiq, assigns Āqā Shaykh Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn as the custodian, and explicitly stipulates that the Arbaʿ Maqālāt be used in teaching, learning, study, and discussion (the word waqf is written over the full width of the top margins of many versos); a statement confirming the legal procedure of the waqf dated 14 Dhū l-qaʿda 1336/21 August 1918 (p. 501). A faded illegible seal (p. 2); several imprints of a small illegible round seal (e.g., pp. 1, 500, 501). Formerly held by the Masjid-i Chihil Sutūn in Zanjan; microfilmed by the Markaz-i iḥyāʾ al-turāth al-Islāmī in Qom in 1417/1996-1997.

Cod.: paper, 502 pp. (paginated with Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil at the top centre; quire numbers for quaternions; catchwords by the scribe, on pp. 2, 6, 8, 10 and 14 not corresponding to the following pages). A clear and dense, somewhat inconsistent nastaʿlīq hand; mostly dotted ductus; some vowels, several hamzas, and some shaddas; frequent use of lām-alif mukhaffafa. Headings and marginal catch titles (e.g., p. 47) as well as formulaic expressions often written in red thuluth or overlined in red. The three horoscopes usually found in this commentary (pp. 423, 428, and 431). Manuscript in very good condition; some ink smudges (p. 161); the first part of the manuscript apparently wrongly bound before the pages were numbered. Dimensions: 29×19 cm; 21 lines per page.

Cont.: astrology. — Index: title page (p. 1); Ptolemaica (pp. 2–500); waqf statement (p. 501, see above); fragments of the poem Mathnawiyyāt by Saʿdī Shīrāzī (p. 502, in the right margin).

Bibl.: Jaʿfar Ḥusaynī Ishkawarī and Ṣādiq Ḥusaynī Ishkawarī, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi ʿaksī-yi Markaz-i Iḥyāʾ-i Mīrāth-i Islāmī, vol. I, Qom: Markaz-i Iḥyāʾ-i Mīrāth-i Islāmī, 1998 (1377 H.S.), p. 221 (no. 99); FankhāMuṣṭafā Dirāyatī, Fihristgān-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Īrān (Fankhā), 45 vols, Tehran: Library, Museum and Documentation Center of The Islamic Consultative Assembly, 2011–2014 (1390–1393 H.S.), vol. XVIII, p. 973 (no. 19).

pp. 2–⁠500	\p. 2\ قال أبو الحسن عليّ ابن رضوان بن عليّ بن جعفر المتطبّب قصدنا أن نشرح أقاويل الحكيم بطلميوس في صناعة القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث — \p. 500\ فهذه أشياء قد شرحتها لك فأنعم النظر فيها وتأمّلها والله يهدي من يشاء إلى صراط مستقيم. = ʿAlī b. Riḍwān, Tafsīr al-Maqālāt al-arbaʿ (C.2.3) . — Title: Arbaʿa maqālāt li-Baṭlamyūs (p. 1). — Index: I.1 (=I), pp. 2–47; I.2 (=II), pp. 47–93; I.3 (=III), pp. 93–130; II.1 (=IV), pp. 130–170; II.2 (=V), pp. 170–216; II.3 (=VI), pp. 217–250; III.1 (=VII), pp. 251–293; III.2 (=VIII), pp. 293–340; III.3 (=IX), pp. 340–392; IV.1 (= X), pp. 392–443; IV.2 (= XI), pp. 443–476; IV.3 (= XII), pp. 476–500. — Dated scribal colophon. Minor marginal corrections by the scribe; other annotations mostly by the owner Muḥammad Akbar (e.g., pp. 283, 286, and signed by him on pp. 353, 434, 496), who also provided additional horoscopes in the margins (pp. 299, 432, 454, and on pp. 452–453, 496 with extensive notes).

pp. 2–⁠500

\p. 2\ قال أبو الحسن عليّ ابن رضوان بن عليّ بن جعفر المتطبّب قصدنا أن نشرح أقاويل الحكيم بطلميوس في صناعة القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث — \p. 500\ فهذه أشياء قد شرحتها لك فأنعم النظر فيها وتأمّلها والله يهدي من يشاء إلى صراط مستقيم.

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

. — Title: Arbaʿa maqālāt li-Baṭlamyūs (p. 1). — Index: I.1 (=I), pp. 2–47; I.2 (=II), pp. 47–93; I.3 (=III), pp. 93–130; II.1 (=IV), pp. 130–170; II.2 (=V), pp. 170–216; II.3 (=VI), pp. 217–250; III.1 (=VII), pp. 251–293; III.2 (=VIII), pp. 293–340; III.3 (=IX), pp. 340–392; IV.1 (= X), pp. 392–443; IV.2 (= XI), pp. 443–476; IV.3 (= XII), pp. 476–500. — Dated scribal colophon. Minor marginal corrections by the scribe; other annotations mostly by the owner Muḥammad Akbar (e.g., pp. 283, 286, and signed by him on pp. 353, 434, 496), who also provided additional horoscopes in the margins (pp. 299, 432, 454, and on pp. 452–453, 496 with extensive notes).