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Mashhad, Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 19688 (Wazīrī 471)⁢⁢⁢⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the Ptolemaic work, black-and-white microfilm scans of the second work.]

Collection of two works: Arabic. Date:

Ptolemaic work finished on 13 Dhū l-ḥijja 1047/28 April 1638 (143r); second work finished on 17 Ṣafar 1048/30 June 1638 (155v).

Or.:

both works copied by Muḥammad Taqī b. Rafīʿ al-Dīn b. ʿAlī al-Ghafārī al-Qāsānī (143r).

Prov.:

undated statement by Muḥammad Yūsuf b. Zayn al-ʿAbidīn al-Tabīb al-Raḍawī, who had this book copied for his son Mīr ʿAbd al-Razzāq, with a small oval seal (5r). Two small oval seals of the owners ʿAbd al-Ghaffār al-Raḍawī and ʿAbd al-Bāqī (?), with a short note of transfer (5r). Two oval seals of the owner Muḥammad Ḥusayn b. Aḥmad (5r). A short Persian poem, and a longer one by Anwarī (2r). Two Arabic notes on parallax (one by Muḥammad Bāqir 〈Yazdī〉), a Persian quotation from al-Qūshjī’s Fārsī-hayʾa, and a Persian astrological poem on the planets (1r). A note on Philippus and his era, attributed to al-Birjandī (1v). A geometrical note on planetary epicycles (3r, with seven freehand diagrams). A note on Book III of al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr al-Majisṭi (4v). A note on the definition of philosophy attributed to Muḥyī l-Dīn al-Maghribī (5r). Ownership statement by Muṣṭafā l-Ḥusaynī l-Ṣafāʾī l-Khūnsārī dated Muḥarram 1370/October-September 1950, accompanied by his oval seal (5r; same seal on f. 155v and faded on f. 5v). Endowment of Ayatollah Khamenei in 1372/1993 (library slip). Scans of the second work are provided by the library as MS 19689.

Cod.: paper, 155 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil, skipping a leaf after f. 124; quires numbered with small overlined Hindu-Arabic numerals on every eighth recto; catchwords). A single naskh hand with clear tendency to nastaʿlīq in black; partially dotted ductus. Book headers in bold black thuluth overlined in red, section numbers in abjad overlined in red or written out as ordinal numbers in red, book and section titles in red. Abjad and Persian variants of Hindu-Arabic numerals overlined in red; geometrical points in the text overlined in black. Some further phrases in red or overlined in red. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or the other way around. Tables with red lines. Codex in very good condition. Dimensions: 26×19.5 cm; 18 lines per page. Leather covers (Ustādī).

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (5v–143r); Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd al-Kāshī, al-Kamāliyya fī stikhrāj abʿād al-kawākib (144v–155v). Blank: 2v, 3v–4r, 143v–144r.

Bibl.: Riḍā Ustādī, Fihrist-i hazār wa pānṣad nuskha-yi khaṭṭī. Ihdāʾī-i Rahbar-i muʻaẓẓam-i inqilāb Haḍrat Āyatallāh Khāminaʾī bi Kitābh̲āna-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, Mashhad: Kitābkhāna-yi Markazī-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 1994 (1373 H.S.), pp. 262–263 (no. 471); 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. 214 (no. 29); Parra, p. 274 (no. 50, listed as MS 471).

5v–⁠143r	\5v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ❊ ومفيض كلّ خير وولّى كلّ هداية ❊ وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \143r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majistī (sic; statement of Musṭafā l-Ḥusaynī on f. 5r, note on f. 1r). — Index: preface, 5v–6r; Book I, 6r–22v; II, 22v–35r; III, 35r–45v; IV, 45v–57r; V, 57r–72r; VI, 72r–84r; VII, 84r–92r; VIII, 92r–101v; IX, 101v–116v; X, 116v–120v; XI, 120v–128r; XII, 128r–133v; XIII, 133v–143r. — No authorial colophon; dated scribal colophon. Relatively few marginal corrections. Glosses by different hands, some starting interlinearly and various marked with ʿAbd Ālī, Niẓām, and sharḥ-i ḥakīm. Proposition numbers from Euclid’s elements indicated interlinearly in red in the form ‘... min al-Uṣūl’.

5v–⁠143r

\5v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ❊ ومفيض كلّ خير وولّى كلّ هداية ❊ وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \143r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.

= Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18)

. — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majistī (sic; statement of Musṭafā l-Ḥusaynī on f. 5r, note on f. 1r). — Index: preface, 5v–6r; Book I, 6r–22v; II, 22v–35r; III, 35r–45v; IV, 45v–57r; V, 57r–72r; VI, 72r–84r; VII, 84r–92r; VIII, 92r–101v; IX, 101v–116v; X, 116v–120v; XI, 120v–128r; XII, 128r–133v; XIII, 133v–143r. — No authorial colophon; dated scribal colophon. Relatively few marginal corrections. Glosses by different hands, some starting interlinearly and various marked with ʿAbd Ālī, Niẓām, and sharḥ-i ḥakīm. Proposition numbers from Euclid’s elements indicated interlinearly in red in the form ‘... min al-Uṣūl’.