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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi Majlis-i shurā-yi Islāmī, 161⁢⁢⁢

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

collation finished by ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar, known as al-Baghdādī, in ‘Dār al-mulk’ Shiraz in the year 804/1401-2 (253r).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

a note and a poem on mathematical ratios (Ir); a Persian poem and a Persian statement about friendship (Ir). Statement of transfer from a father to his son, with the latter’s name erased (1r). An erased seal and note (253v). A lobed round seal with two prayers featuring the name Maḥmūd, with date 981/1573-4 (252v). Calligraphic signature of the well-known scholar Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad al-ʿĀmilī (953/1547–1030/1621), with his round seal (Ir; the seal also on f. 253v); an anonymous statement of transfer in Mashhad (253v, just above Bahāʾ al-Dīn’s seal). Ownership statement by Maḥmūd al-Ṭabīb (1r). An ownership statement, with a seal with the name ʿAlī dated 1141 (?)/1728-9. A statement by the son of Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn, Muḥammad Ṭāhir al-Munajjim al-Yazdī, who donated the manuscript to his son Muḥammad Bāqir, with a smudged seal (1r). A statement of purchase by Muḥammad b. Kāẓim al-Burūjirdī from Ḥājī Mīrzā Aḥmad Shīrāzī Kitābfurūsh in the year 1324 H.S./1945, claiming that the above-mentioned statement of transfer in Mashhad is in the hand of Shaykh Bahāʾī (253v).

Cod.: paper, I+253 ff. (unfoliated; catchwords). A small naskh hand in black; almost fully dotted ductus. Book titles centred in enlarged bold black; section titles, qawlu-hu / aqūlu, and abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals in red; geometrical points in the text black and overlined; frequent use of red overlines. Diagrams with black lines and red labels; tables with red lines. Codex in acceptable condition; water damage on all edges, first and large folios heavily damaged, some more large stains. Dimensions: 23×14 cm; 23 lines per page. Dark-brown leather covers with centre-piece and pendants with floral motifs. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: a short geometrical proof with a diagram (Iv); Ptolemaica (1v–253r); a fragment on ḥikma from the writings of Ibn Sīnā (253v). Blank: flyleaves.

Bibl.: Yūsuf Iʿtiṣāmī, Fihrist-i Kitābkhāna-i Majlis-i Shūrā-yi Millī, Vol. II: Kutub-i khaṭṭī-i 1–788, Tehran: Majlis-i Shūrā-yi Millī, 1933 (1311 H.S.), p. 88; 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. 676 (no. 22).

1v–⁠253r	\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 — \253r\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة 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: Sharḥ Majisṭī Mawlānā Niẓām al-Dīn (Ir). — Alternative titles: Tafsīr Taḥrīr (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–4r; Book I, 4r–48v; II, 48v–70v; III, 70v–98v; IV, 98v–113r; V, 113r–141r; VI, 141r–176r; VII, 176r–183r; VIII, 183r–187v; IX, 187v–202v; X, 202v–210r; XI, 210r–218v; XII, 218v–234v; XIII, 234v–253r. — Dated authorial colophons for all books, including the full colophon of Book XIII with the note confirming the autograph as found in Tunis, Waṭaniyya, 3663⁢. Scribal colophon with the date of the annotations in the margin of the last page. Marginal corrections; brief collation statement balagha al-muqābala (253r); various marginal annotations in a tiny red script (e.g., 20v, 24v–25v, 28r).

1v–⁠253r

\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 — \253r\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة 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: Sharḥ Majisṭī Mawlānā Niẓām al-Dīn (Ir). — Alternative titles: Tafsīr Taḥrīr (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–4r; Book I, 4r–48v; II, 48v–70v; III, 70v–98v; IV, 98v–113r; V, 113r–141r; VI, 141r–176r; VII, 176r–183r; VIII, 183r–187v; IX, 187v–202v; X, 202v–210r; XI, 210r–218v; XII, 218v–234v; XIII, 234v–253r. — Dated authorial colophons for all books, including the full colophon of Book XIII with the note confirming the autograph as found in Tunis, Waṭaniyya, 3663⁢. Scribal colophon with the date of the annotations in the margin of the last page. Marginal corrections; brief collation statement balagha al-muqābala (253r); various marginal annotations in a tiny red script (e.g., 20v, 24v–25v, 28r).