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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi Majlis-i shurā-yi Islāmī, 6531

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and inside covers.]

Incomplete single work: Arabic. Date:

undated; 7^th/13^th c. (Ishkawarī); a note by a later hand in nastaʿlīq on the title page dates the manuscript to the late 6^th/12^th century (Ir).

Or.:

unknown, probably Persian; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

no statements of ownership; various library stamps.

Cod.: brown paper, I+209 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals; no catchwords). A naskh hand in black and brown; from f. 184r the hand becomes slightly cursive, although the scribe may be the same. Inconsistently dotted ductus; minor vowels, no shaddas or hamzas. Overlined abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals. Title page in nastaʿlīq; book and chapter headings in red naskh, some chapter headings missing, those in Book XIII in brown naskh. No tables or diagrams. Codex in good condition; some mold stains, minor ink smudges, last folio worm-eaten. Dimensions: 24.5×16 cm; 19 lines per page, from f. 193r onwards 16–17 lines per page. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: title page (Ir); Ptolemaica (1r–208v). Blank: Iv, 209r–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. 106; Johannes Thomann, ‘Ein al-Fārābī zugeschriebener Kommentar zum Almagest (Hs. Tehran Mağlis 6531)’, Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 19 (2010–2011), pp. 35–76; 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. XX, pp. 640–641}; Johannes Thomann, ‘Al-Fārābīs Kommentar zum Almagest in sekundärer Überlieferung bei Ibn aṣ-Ṣalāḥ: Ein vorläufiger Bericht’, Asiatische Studien 69 (2015), pp. 99–113; Johannes Thomann, ‘Terminological Fingerprints in a Commentary on the Almagest Attributed to al-Fārābī’, in Maurus Reinkowski and Monika Winet (eds), Arabic and Islamic Studies in Europe and Beyond. Proceedings of the 26th Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants, Basel 2012, Leuven: Peeters, 2016, pp. 301–312. Majlis Library online catalogue: https://dlib.ical.ir/site/catalogue/841823 (currently unavailable).

1r–⁠208v	\1r\ \|\| على مركز المعدل ٣٣ جزءا و٥٢ دقيقة وضعفها ٦٧ جزءا و٤٤ دقيقة فتكون القوس التي علي عمود جل الموتر لهذا الزاوية ٦٧ جزءا و٤٤ دقيقة — \208v\ فنجلع زاوية داز ٢٠ جزءا و55 دقيقة بالأجزاء التي بها أربع زوايا قائمة ٣٦٠ جزءا فقد نقص إذن في هذا أيضا عدد الزيادة والنقصان في الطول بسبب الانحراف ٦ دقائق. وهذه الأشياء كنا قصدنا وجودها. تمّ الكتاب والحمد لله ربّ العالمين. = Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī, Sharḥ al-Majisṭī (C.1.5) . — Title: Sharḥ Majisṭī az Abī Naṣr Fārābī (Ir). — Index: Book X.4–7, 1r–18v; IX.8–11, 19r–39v; X.1–4, 40r–49v; X.7–10, 50r–66r; XI, 66r–115v; XII, 115v–177r; XIII.1–4, 177r–208v. — No authorial or dated scribal colophons. The manuscript contains the commentary by al-Fārābī on Almagest IX.8–XIII.4. It is in disorder: a couple of quires belonging to Book X are placed at the beginning. Hardly any marginal corrections; no collations. Minor marginal glosses. Trimmed.

1r–⁠208v

\1r\ || على مركز المعدل ٣٣ جزءا و٥٢ دقيقة وضعفها ٦٧ جزءا و٤٤ دقيقة فتكون القوس التي علي عمود جل الموتر لهذا الزاوية ٦٧ جزءا و٤٤ دقيقة — \208v\ فنجلع زاوية داز ٢٠ جزءا و55 دقيقة بالأجزاء التي بها أربع زوايا قائمة ٣٦٠ جزءا فقد نقص إذن في هذا أيضا عدد الزيادة والنقصان في الطول بسبب الانحراف ٦ دقائق. وهذه الأشياء كنا قصدنا وجودها. تمّ الكتاب والحمد لله ربّ العالمين.

= Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī, Sharḥ al-Majisṭī (C.1.5)

. — Title: Sharḥ Majisṭī az Abī Naṣr Fārābī (Ir). — Index: Book X.4–7, 1r–18v; IX.8–11, 19r–39v; X.1–4, 40r–49v; X.7–10, 50r–66r; XI, 66r–115v; XII, 115v–177r; XIII.1–4, 177r–208v. — No authorial or dated scribal colophons. The manuscript contains the commentary by al-Fārābī on Almagest IX.8–XIII.4. It is in disorder: a couple of quires belonging to Book X are placed at the beginning. Hardly any marginal corrections; no collations. Minor marginal glosses. Trimmed.