Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-yi Dānishgāh-i Tehrān, Ḥuqūq 9 B
14 Shawwal 1231/7 September 1816 (384v).
Or.:Qajar Iran; probably copied by ʿAbd al-Wahhāb Mashhadī (1v–156v, 209v–384v) and by Abū l-Qāsim (157r–208r), who is known as the translator of a Persian version of the work; for the identification of the hands, cf. the signed marginal annotations by both copyists in this manuscript (see below) and ʿAbd al-Wahhāb’s marginalia in MSS Tehran, Sipahsālār, 8251 and Mashhad, Āstān-i Quds, 6349 of the same work. The present manuscript probably was a draft for the illuminated version presented to the Qajar prince Muḥammad Walī Mīrzā (1203/1789–1281/1864), dated Jumādā l-thāniya 1240/February 1825, which was auctioned by Bonhams in 2018 (see the preface of the present manuscript, ff. 1v–4v,
according to a note on f. 209r, accompanied by a small oval seal ‘Ibn ʿAlī Akbar’, the codex was owned by ʿAbd al-Wahhāb Mashhadī, was written on the order of Muḥammad Walī Mīrzā, and reached an unspecified library in Ramaḍān 1236/June-July 1821 through Muḥammad ʿAlī Mīrzā Bābā in Yazd; a similar note is found in the illuminated codex mentioned above). A poem dated 14 Jumādā l-ūlā 1251/7 September 1835 (1r). Accession number (?): ‘42370’, with date ‘23/11/21’/12 February 1943 (1r).
Cod.: blueish paper, I+384 ff. (unfoliated; catchwords). Two hands. First hand (1v–156v, 209v–384v): a neat naskh in black for the Arabic text, with a small black nastaʿlīq for the interlinear Persian translation; mostly dotted ductus, occasional vowels, shaddas and hamzas; book numbers of the Tetrabiblos additionally indicated in the upper right corner of versos, chapter numbers and titles in the upper left corner of rectos (but omitted on ff. 123–208). Second hand (157r–208r): small and angular, the Arabic text in naskh, with the interlinear Persian in nastaʿlīq; mostly dotted ductus, some vowels, shaddas and hamzas mostly provided. Both scribes use red for formulaic expressions and titles in the main text; the first scribe does so irregularly and occasionally overlines in black. Several text sections crossed out and corrected in the margins (e.g., 26v, 123r). No tables; all three horoscopes usually found in this commentary (331v, 334v, 336v). Dimensions: 34×21.5 cm, written area 26.5×14 cm; 32 lines per page (misṭara imprints, e.g., on f. 208r). Codex in very good condition; some ink smudges and stains, minor repairs in the folds (e.g., between ff. 3 and 4). Dark leather covers, decorated with a blind-stamped central mandorla with pendants. Type III binding.
Cont.: astrology. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–384v). Blank: 5r, 208v.
Bibl.: Muḥammad Taqī Dānishpazhūh, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Dānishkada-yi ḥuqūq wa ʿulūm-i siyāsī wa iqtiṣādī-yi Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, Tehran: Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 1961 (1339 H.S.), p. 293; 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 (#20).
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\1v\ حمدًا لمن جعل في السماء بروجًا وجعل فيها الشمس سراجًا والقمر نورًا وخلق سبع سموات ومن الأرض مثلهنّ لمن أراد أن يذّكر أو أراد شكورًا … = ʿAlī b. Riḍwān, Tafsīr al-Maqālāt al-arbaʿ (C.2.3)
. — Index: preface, supplemented with a table of contents, 1v–4v; I.1 (=I), 5v–42r; I.2 (=II), 42r–82r; I.3 (=III), 82v–113v; II.1 (=IV), 113v–151v; II.2 (=V), 151v–185v; II.3 (=VI), 186r–208r; III.1 (=VII), 209v–240r; III.2 (=VIII), 240r–273v; III.3 (=IX), 273v–310r; IV.1 (=X), 310r–338v; IV.2 (=XI), 338v–367r; IV.3 (=XII), 367r–384v. — Dated scribal colophon. Numerous marginal corrections, mostly indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Annotations signed ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (e.g., 17v, 77v, 126v) and Abū l-Qāsim (e.g., 58v, 86v, 126v); several minhiyyāt, especially in the margins of the part copied by the second scribe (e.g., 195v). |
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