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Mashhad, Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 5255

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

the morning of a Wednesday in Rajab 873/January-February 1469 (349v).

Or.:

unknown; ff. 105r–350v copied by Muḥammad b. Khiḍr b. ʿAbdallāh b. Khiḍr b. Abī l-Mufākhir b. Abī l-Ghanāʾim al-ʿIlmī l-Tamīmī (349v).

Prov.:

an oval seal of Faḍl Allāh with floral motifs (1r). Ownership statement by Muḥammad b. Muḥammad Zamān (1r). A long Persian statement, dated 20 Rajab 1166/23 May 1753, by Āghā Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn al-Khādim-i Isfahānī, who endowed the present codex to the Āstān-i Quds together with 170 other volumes (1r, with his oval seal). An oval seal of Muḥammad Raḥīm dated 1204 (?)/1789-90 (1r). A rectangular endowment seal ‘Sarkār Fayḍ Āthār’, the former designation of the Āstān-i Quds (1v, 101r, 159r, 213r, erased or smeared on f. 349r). An oval seal ‘anā ʿabd min ʿubayd Muḥammad’ with floral motives, dated 1282/1865-6 (349v). The word waqf written through the text area on various pages. Nine inspection statements covering the period from 1266/1850 to 1312/1894, mostly dated and with mention of the name of the inspector.

Cod.: paper, 350+I^a ff. (foliated with Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals on rectos; the misplaced f. 350 belongs after f. 345; two marginal notes folded in [21r, 41v], a diagram on an inserted slip [297v]; catchwords, mostly trimmed in Part II). The codex falls into two parts. Part I (1v–104v): a naskh hand in black; almost fully dotted ductus. Part II (105r–350v), possibly replacing a heavily damaged part of the original codex: a nastaʿlīq hand in black; partially dotted ductus with elongated bowls, especially for nūn. Book titles in part I in red, in Part II in enlarged bold black; section titles in both parts in red. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals and qawlu-hu / aqūlu in red; geometrical points in the text in black without overlines. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points and labels, mostly extending into the margins. Tables with red lines. Part I of the codex in bad condition; significant water damage on the lower half of all pages, large stains at the top of all pages up to f. 58. Part II in excellent condition. Dimensions: 23.3×13.3 cm, written area: 13.6×7 cm; 27 lines per page. Simple brown leather covers with violet pastedowns. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–350v). Blank: I^av.

Bibl.: Aḥmad Gulchīn Maʿānī, Fihrist-i kutub-i khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, vol. VIII, Mashhad: Intishārāt-i Kitābkhāna-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 1971 (1350 H.S.), pp. 94–95 (no. 113); 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. VIII, p. 675 (no. 6).

1v–⁠350v	\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر يمتري الزيادة — \349r\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة \349v\ سعادة ويسرى وتجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة وبشرى ويرحم الله عبدًا قال آمينا. = Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) . — Title: Taḥrīr (1r [twice]). — Index: preface, 1v–4v; Book I, 4v–58v; II, 58v–83r; III, 83r–114r; IV, 114r–134r; V, 134r–173v; VI, 173v–224r; VII, 224r–235v; VIII, 235v–243r; IX, 243r–265v; X, 265v–276v; XI, 276v–290r; XII, 290r–316r; XIII, 316r–345v, 350r–v, 346r–349v. — Dated authorial colophons for all books except I and XIII; dated scribal colophon. Marginal corrections, including long ones, marked with siglum ṣḥ. Some glosses by a different hand in the first part of the codex. Instructions for the rubricator visible on the edges of numerous pages (esp., ff. 240–267), often trimmed.

1v–⁠350v

\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر يمتري الزيادة — \349r\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة \349v\ سعادة ويسرى وتجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة وبشرى ويرحم الله عبدًا قال آمينا.

= Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38)

. — Title: Taḥrīr (1r [twice]). — Index: preface, 1v–4v; Book I, 4v–58v; II, 58v–83r; III, 83r–114r; IV, 114r–134r; V, 134r–173v; VI, 173v–224r; VII, 224r–235v; VIII, 235v–243r; IX, 243r–265v; X, 265v–276v; XI, 276v–290r; XII, 290r–316r; XIII, 316r–345v, 350r–v, 346r–349v. — Dated authorial colophons for all books except I and XIII; dated scribal colophon. Marginal corrections, including long ones, marked with siglum ṣḥ. Some glosses by a different hand in the first part of the codex. Instructions for the rubricator visible on the edges of numerous pages (esp., ff. 240–267), often trimmed.