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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi Majlis-i shurā-yi Islāmī, 6417⁢⁢⁢⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Collection of one incomplete work, a short treatise and a set of student’s notes: Arabic. Date:

undated; 10^th/16^th or early 11^th/17^th c. (Ḥusaynī Ishkawarī).

Or.:

unknown, unknown copyists.

Prov.:

a note on cosmological aspects of planetary motion according to Ptolemy (1r). An erased oval stamp (3r). Stamp of the library of Majd al-Dīn 〈Naṣīrī〉 with old shelfmark ‘2639’, accompanied by a note by him in pencil stating that he donated the codex to the Majlis library in 1314/1936 (1r, Ḥusaynī Ishkawarī). ‘No. 21’ in Latin script in pencil (1r). The word ‘waqf’ repeatedly written over the upper third of the textblock (1v, 27v, 67r). Library stamps (1r, 67v). Old shelfmarks: ‘887’ (1r, label on front doublure) and ‘6439’ (stamp on front doublure).

Cod.: paper, 67+I^a ff. (foliated with Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil in the upper right corners of versos, with f. 6 [here referred to as f. 1^bis] correctly inserted after f. 1; a smaller sheet of paper in the hand of the scribe inserted after f. 19 with an unfinished tangent table that is missing from the main text; catchwords). Main hand (main work): black naskh, almost fully dotted ductus; book and section titles as well as overlines and some other markings in red; diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points, rarely vice versa; tables with red lines, some empty (37r, 38v–39v). A single naskh hand with sparsely dotted ductus on ff. 55r–58v and several different naskh hands on ff. 59r–60v. A single naskh hand in the third work; almost fully dotted ductus. Codex in good condition; minor water or moisture damage in the upper and lower margins; some stains (e.g., 60r, 65r–v). Dimensions: 20×10 cm; 15–17 lines per page in the main work, 12 lines on ff. 55r–58v, 25 lines in the third work. Dark-brown leather covers, quarter-bound. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–54v); Ptolemaica (55r–60v); Ptolemaica (63v–67v). Blank: 19^bisr, 61r–63r, I^ar–v.

Bibl.: Jaʿfar Ḥusaynī Ishkawarī, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-i Kitābkhāna-yi Majlis-i shurā-yi Islāmī, vol. XX, Tehran: Kitābkhāna, Mūza wa markaz asnād-yi Majlis-i shurā-yi Islāmi, 2010 (1389 H.S.), p. 13; 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. VII, p. 213 (no. 18).

1v–⁠54v	\1v\ الحمد للّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ ❊ وغاية كلّ غاية ❊ ومفيض كلّ خير وولىّ كلّ هداية ❊ وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \54v\ وإنّما لم يكن الكواكب التي تكون الأرض عند أفلاكها كنقطة اختلافات مناظر لكون الخطّين عندها في الحسّ كخطّ واحد وبسبب وجود هذا الاختلاف للقمر يختلف \مقادير\\|\|  = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) , only Books I to III. — Title: Kitāb al-Majisṭī li-Baṭlamyūs al-Qalūdī (1v). — Additional Title: Kitāb al-Majisṭī li-Baṭlamyūs (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–1^bisr; Book I, 1^bisr–22v; II, 22v–40r; III, 40r–54v; IV, 54v (incomplete). The text breaks off just after the beginning of Book IV. — No colophons. Marginal corrections. Several glosses. An unfinished sketch of an instrument from al-Nīsābūrī’s Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) in the upper margin of f. 42r.
55r–⁠60v	\55r\ [title] الفصل العاشر في مقادير لأوتار. ونبداء بضلعي المعشّر والمخمّس — \59r\ وهو حصّة دقيقة واحدة بالتقريب الذي لا يخالفه الحقيقة بشيء يعتدّ به ليسهل وجود حصص الكسوريّة — [Notes] جيب الثلث والسدس واحد. لأنّ جيب الثلث نصف وتر الثلثان — \60v\ إذا كانت نسبة قدر معلوم إلى آخر معلومة كان الآخر معلوم القدر. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: min al-Majisṭī fī l-maqāla al-ūlā (55r). — Index: section I.10 (55r–59r, end lacking); notes on the calculation of sines and the obliquity of the ecliptic (59r–60v). The text from the Taḥrīr ends just before the table of chords, after two lines on f. 59r. It is followed by what appear to be notes by one or more students on the remainder of section I.10 and on section I.11, apparently supplemented by a teacher with a much nicer handwriting; these notes include references to Euclid’s Elements and Data. — No colophon. In the first part: some marginal corrections and various glosses by the hand of the scribe, partially written in the wide spaces between the lines.
63v–⁠67v	\63v\ [title] وهو مشتمل على ثلاث عشرة مقالة ومائة واحد وأربعين فصلًا ومائة وستة وتسعين شكلًا — \67r\ الفصل الرابع عشر في مطالع الكرة المنتصبيّة. ولتعدّ الشكل المتقدّم بعينه و~~الحنا~~ \67v\ والمطلوب ههنا معرفة قوس ه ط من قوس ه ح. تمّت. = Mudaʿayyāt ashkāl al-Majisṭī li-Baṭlamyūs al-Qalawdī (C.1.43) . — Title: Mudaʿayyāt ashkāl al-Majisṭī li-Baṭlamyūs al-Qalawdī (63v). — No colophon. Some marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ. A space reserved, presumably for a diagram (67r).