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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi markazi-i Dānishgāh-i Tehrān, 466⁢⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

afternoon of Friday, 1 Dhū l-qaʿda 1073/8 June 1663 (243r).

Or.:

Khoshkrud (a small town 100 km southwest of Tehran); unknown scribe.

Prov.:

erased title and statement (1r). Owner’s statement by Muḥammad Mahdī al-Ḥusaynī al-Mūsawī, with his seal (1r). Oval stamp ‘Kitābkhāna-yi Mishkāt’ with date Bahman 1328/January-February 1950 (1v); ex-libris: endowment of Sayyid Muḥammad Mishkat (front pastedown). Round library stamps (1r, 53r, 242v, 243v, I^av); rectangular library stamp ‘amwāl Dānishgāh’ without number (5v).

Cod.: paper, I+243+I^a ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals on rectos; paper slip with diagram in the hand of the scribe inserted after f. 108; catchwords). A single nastaʿlīq hand in black; fully dotted ductus. In Books I and II: book and section titles in red, book and section numbers (written out) repeated in the margins in red; abjad numerals and geometrical points in the text overlined in black. Nearly all rubrications omitted from f. 68 onwards. Diagrams with black lines and red geometrical points and labels, occasionally the other way around; the labelling in some diagrams omitted (e.g., 108v, 164r, 186r). Some tables with black lines and mostly red contents. Codex in very good condition; light water damage, some stains, several leaves between ff. 170 and 182 loose. Dimensions: 24×15 cm, written area: 17.5×8 cm; 24 lines per page. Cardboard covers, half-bound with cloth over cardboards. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: table of contents (1r, in the hand of the scribe); Ptolemaica (1v–243r). Blank: Iv, 243v, I^ar–v.

Bibl.: Muḥammad Taqī Dānishpazhūh, Fihrist-i Kitābkhāna-i ihdāʾī-i Āqā Sayyid Muḥammad Mishkāt bih Kitābkhāna-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, vol. III/2 [=4], Tehran: Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 1953 (1332 H.S.), pp. 864–865 (no. 1072); 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. VIII, p. 675 (no. 16).

1v–⁠243r	\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر يمتري الزيادة فأحمده على ما أوّلانا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض — \243r\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة ويسرى وتجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة وبشرى ويرحم الله قال آمينا. = Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) . — Title: Tafsīr al-Taḥrīr-i Niẓām al-Dīn Aʿraj (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–3v; Book I, 3v–46r; II, 46r–65v; III, 65v–90r; IV, 90r–103v; V, 103v–130v; VI, 130v–165r; VII, 165r–172r; VIII, 172r–177r; IX, 177r–192v; X, 192v–201r; XI, 201r–210v; XII, 210v–226v; XIII, 226v–243r. — Dated authorial colophons for every book except XIII; dated scribal colophon. Marginal corrections, mostly in the first part of the manuscript. No glosses.

1v–⁠243r

\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر يمتري الزيادة فأحمده على ما أوّلانا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض — \243r\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة ويسرى وتجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة وبشرى ويرحم الله قال آمينا.

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

. — Title: Tafsīr al-Taḥrīr-i Niẓām al-Dīn Aʿraj (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–3v; Book I, 3v–46r; II, 46r–65v; III, 65v–90r; IV, 90r–103v; V, 103v–130v; VI, 130v–165r; VII, 165r–172r; VIII, 172r–177r; IX, 177r–192v; X, 192v–201r; XI, 201r–210v; XII, 210v–226v; XIII, 226v–243r. — Dated authorial colophons for every book except XIII; dated scribal colophon. Marginal corrections, mostly in the first part of the manuscript. No glosses.