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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi Majlis-i shurā-yi Islāmī, 4345

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Collection of 15 works: Arabic and Persian. Date:

ff. 1v–30v completed on 26 Dhū l-ḥijja 1243/9 July 1828 (26r, 30v); ff. 63v–92r completed between 14 (19?) Ramaḍān 1257/30 October (4 November?) 1841 (76r) and mid Rabīʿ al-thānī 1257/early June 1841 (90r); ff. 99v–102v completed on 18 Ramaḍān 1268/6 July 1852 (102v); remainder of the manuscript undated.

Or.:

unknown; ff. 63v–102v copied by Amal al-Ḥājj ʿAbd al-Hādī l-Mahdī l-Iṣfahānī (76r, 102v).

Prov.:

ownership statement in French by Mīrzā Sayyid ʿAlī Muwaththiq al-Malik (high functionary under Muẓaffar al-Dīn Shāh [r. 1896–1907] and director of the Sipahsālār Library), dated 1903-4.

Cod.: modern white paper, 189 ff. (foliated with stamped Hindu-Arabic numerals; catchwords). Seven different hands (first: 1v–30v; second: 31v–58r; third (Amal al-Ḥājj): 63v–102v; fourth: 107v–118v; fifth: 119v–126v; sixth: 127v–131v; seventh: 135r–186r). Amal al-Ḥājj’s hand (including the Ptolemaic work): clear and regular naskh; mostly dotted ductus with a few other diacritics; red ink for chapter headings, verbum numbering (in abjad numerals), formulaic expressions, and overlining of chapter beginnings. Other hands: clear and regular naskh, mostly dotted, red used throughout; beautiful diagrams in several colours by the first hand, neat diagrams in red by the fourth hand. Codex in excellent condition; some smudges of ink and moisture stains not affecting the readability, some folios lost before f. 135. Dimensions: 21×14.5 cm; written area varying from 13.0×7.0 to 15.5×8.5 cm (Ptolemaic work: 135×75 mm); 17–23 lines per page. Simple black leather cover (Munzawī). Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy, astrology, mathematics, geography, and alchemy. — Index: table of contents (1r); Muʾayyad al-Dīn al-ʿUrḍī, Risāla fī Kayfiyyat al-arṣād (1v–26v); Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Risāla dar Tawḍīḥ-i qaḍāyā-yi Uqlīdis (27v–30v); Murtaḍā Ḥusayn Bilgrāmī, Ḥadīqat al-aqālīm, section on Europe and America translated from a treatise by Jonathan Scott (31v–58r); Ptolemaica (63v–69v); Pseudo-Aristotle, Kitāb fī Asrār al-nujūm (70r–76r); Sayyid Ashraf, Madkhal-i manẓūm, an astrological poem (79r–90r, with additions on ff. 90r–92r); Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn al-ʿĀmilī, al-Ṣafīḥa fī l-asṭurlāb (99v–102v); Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. al-Sarī b. al-Ṣalāḥ, Kayfiyyat tasṭīḥ basīt al-kura (107v–118v; mentioning Ptolemy’s Planisphaerium and copied from a 892/1487 copy of a witness written by Qaḍī-Zāda al-Rūmī); alchemical poems attributed to Khālid b. Yazīd (119v–126v; see Marion Dapsens, ‘The Alchemical Work of Khālid b. Yazīd b. Muʿāwiya (d. c. 85/704)’, Asiatische Studien/Études Asiatiques 75 (2021), pp. 327–427, here pp. 354 and 416); an anonymous fragment on alchemy (127v–131v); an acephalous text on alchemy, identified in a marginal note as al-Tadhkira by ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Hamadānī (135r–162v); an anonymous treatise on alchemy in Arabic (163v–167v); Abū Maʿālī l-Nishāwurī (?), al-Juzʾ al-thānī min Kitāb Taʿālīq wa-mujarrabāt, on alchemy (168v–185r); a fragment on alchemy (186r). Blank: 27r, 31r, 58v–63r, 76v–78v, 92v–99r, 103r–107r, 127r, 132r–134v, 163r, 168r, 185v, 186v–189v.

Bibl.: Aḥmad Munzawī, Fihrist-i Kitābkhāna-yi Majlis-i Shūrā-yi Millī. Kutub-i khaṭṭī, fārisī wa-ʿarabī, vol. XII, Tehran: Majlis-i Shūrā-yi Millī, 1967 (1346 H.S.), pp. 54–61; 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. IX, p. 723 (no. 5); furthermore vol. III, p. 440 (no. 13); vol. IV, p. 74; vol. V, p. 946 (no. 4); vol. VII, p. 925; vol. IX, p. 497; vol. XXI, p. 711 (no. 93), etc.. Majlis Library Online Catalogue: https://dlib.ical.ir/site/catalogue/505878 (currently unavailable).

63v–⁠69v	\63v\ قد قدّمنا لك يا سورس كتبًا فيما نؤثّره الكواكب (وفوق السطر: في عالم التركيب صح) — \69v\ فإن لم يكن سائرًا فإنّ الخارجيّ من حصرة ذلك الأقاليم (كذا). تمّ كتاب الثمرة المسمّى بالروميّة انظرومطا ومعناه المائة الكلمة بعون الله وحسن توفيقه. = Pseudo-Ptolemy, Kitāb al-Thamara (B.1.1) , version with 102 verba. — Title: Kitāb al-Thamara al-musammā bi-l-rūmiyya ā-n-ẓ-r-w-m-ṭ-ā wa-maʿnā-hu l-miʾa al-kalima (69v). — Index: author’s introduction, 63v; 102 verba, 63v–69v. — Colophon with Greek title; no scribal colophon. A single correction by the scribe (see the incipit) and a short marginal note (64r). Verbum 97 before verba 95–96 (here: 98–99), as in al-Ṭūsī’s commentary (C.3.4).

63v–⁠69v

\63v\ قد قدّمنا لك يا سورس كتبًا فيما نؤثّره الكواكب (وفوق السطر: في عالم التركيب صح) — \69v\ فإن لم يكن سائرًا فإنّ الخارجيّ من حصرة ذلك الأقاليم (كذا). تمّ كتاب الثمرة المسمّى بالروميّة انظرومطا ومعناه المائة الكلمة بعون الله وحسن توفيقه.

= Pseudo-Ptolemy, Kitāb al-Thamara (B.1.1)

, version with 102 verba. — Title: Kitāb al-Thamara al-musammā bi-l-rūmiyya ā-n-ẓ-r-w-m-ṭ-ā wa-maʿnā-hu l-miʾa al-kalima (69v). — Index: author’s introduction, 63v; 102 verba, 63v–69v. — Colophon with Greek title; no scribal colophon. A single correction by the scribe (see the incipit) and a short marginal note (64r). Verbum 97 before verba 95–96 (here: 98–99), as in al-Ṭūsī’s commentary (C.3.4).