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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi Millī-yi Īrān, Ar. 1729

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

12 Shaʿbān 1122/6 October 1710 (p. 470).

Or.:

unknown; copyist’s name in the colophon erased (p. 470).

Prov.:

at least three ownership statements erased and faded, one of which was apparently dated 1249/1833-4 (I). A stamp by Ismāʿīl Amīrkhīzī (p. 1), probably the author and leader of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (d. 1965).

Cod.: paper, I+471 pp. (paginated with Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals on every recto, p. 1 being a verso; catchwords in the hand of the scribe). A single neat nastaʿlīq hand in black. Mostly dotted ductus; some vowels, very few shaddas, frequent indication of final hamzas and maddas. Book and chapter titles and paragraph beginnings rubricated. Abjad notation in the main text not highlighted. Blank spaces reserved for all three horoscopes usually found in this commentary (pp. 390, 395, 398). Codex in good condition; minor ink smudges and occasional moisture stains (esp. on the covers), restorations with pasted slips of paper (p. I). Dimensions: 26.5×15.5 cm; written area: 19×10 cm; 25 lines per page (misṭara imprints). Red leather covers over paper pasteboards, decorated with a golden frame; doublure in brown leather, cover with fore-edge and envelope flap. Type II binding.

Cont.: astrology.— Index: Ptolemaica (pp. 1–470); a scholium on Book II of the Tetrabiblos or a related work (p. 471).

Bibl.: ʿAbdallah Anwār, Fihrist-i nusakh-i khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Millī, Vol. X: Kutub-i ʿarabī az shumāra-yi 1501 tā 1975 wa-ḍamīma az F 3064 tā F 3083, Tehran: Kitābkhāna-yi Millī, 1979 (1358 H.S.), pp. 314–315; 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. 13). Millī Library online catalogue: http://opac.nlai.ir/opac-prod/bibliographic/808365.

pp. 1–⁠470	\p. 1\ قال أبو الحسن علي بن رضوان بن علي بن جعفر المتطبّب: قصدنا أن نشرح أقاويل الحكيم بطلميوس في صناعة القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث \p. 470\ فهذه أشياء قد شرحتها لك فانعم النظر فيها وتأمّلها والله يهدي من يشاء إلى صراط مستقيم. = ʿAlī b. Riḍwān, Tafsīr al-Maqālāt al-arbaʿ (C.2.3) . — Title: Sharḥ Aqāwīl Baṭlamyūs (spine). — Index: Book I.1 (=I), pp. 1–40; I.2 (=II), pp. 40–86; I.3 (=III), pp. 86–113; II.1 (=IV), pp. 113–153; II.2 (=V), pp. 153–195; II.3 (=VI), pp. 195–226; III.1 (=VII), pp. 227–266; III.2 (=VIII), pp. 266–310; III.3 (=IX), pp. 310–361; IV.1 (=X), pp. 361–401; IV.2 (=XI), pp. 401–445; IV.3 (=XII), pp. 445–470. — Dated scribal colophon. Very few marginal corrections and additions, at times in the scribe’s hand and mostly indicated by sigla ṣ and ṣḥ. A gloss quoting ʿUmar b. al-Farrukhān al-Ṭabarī (thus referring to a different version of the Tetrabiblos, A.2.1) (p. 200).

pp. 1–⁠470

\p. 1\ قال أبو الحسن علي بن رضوان بن علي بن جعفر المتطبّب: قصدنا أن نشرح أقاويل الحكيم بطلميوس في صناعة القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث \p. 470\ فهذه أشياء قد شرحتها لك فانعم النظر فيها وتأمّلها والله يهدي من يشاء إلى صراط مستقيم.

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

. — Title: Sharḥ Aqāwīl Baṭlamyūs (spine). — Index: Book I.1 (=I), pp. 1–40; I.2 (=II), pp. 40–86; I.3 (=III), pp. 86–113; II.1 (=IV), pp. 113–153; II.2 (=V), pp. 153–195; II.3 (=VI), pp. 195–226; III.1 (=VII), pp. 227–266; III.2 (=VIII), pp. 266–310; III.3 (=IX), pp. 310–361; IV.1 (=X), pp. 361–401; IV.2 (=XI), pp. 401–445; IV.3 (=XII), pp. 445–470. — Dated scribal colophon. Very few marginal corrections and additions, at times in the scribe’s hand and mostly indicated by sigla ṣ and ṣḥ. A gloss quoting ʿUmar b. al-Farrukhān al-Ṭabarī (thus referring to a different version of the Tetrabiblos, A.2.1) (p. 200).