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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi Dānishkada-yi ḥuqūq, 62 J

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

undated, 11^th/17^th c. (Dānishpazhūh).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

two partially erased ownership statements by the 11^th/17^th-century Safavid philosopher Mīr Abū al-Qāsim Findiriskī (Iv, 1r). A small oval seal by Muḥammad Ḥusaynī Qawām al-Dīn (303r). A lobed square Safavid seal ‘Mīrzā Khān Nazar āz Murshid-e Kāmil Dārad’ (1r). Several erased ownership statements and stamps (1r).

Cod.: paper, I+303 ff. (foliated with Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals at the centre top of rectos; marks for the middle of the quires on every eighth folio, i.e., the manuscript was bound in quaternions; catchwords). At least three different hands. First hand (1v–184v and 252–303r): a neat nastaʿlīq in black; mostly dotted ductus, occasional vowels, shaddas and hamzas. Second hand (185r–200v): black nastaʿlīq, bigger letters written with a thick nibbed pen (with the exception of much denser script towards the end of the quire on f. 201); mostly dotted ductus, some vowels, hardly any shaddas or hamzas. Third hand (226r–251v): black nastaʿlīq in a fast and occasionally dotted ductus with hardly any shaddas or hamzas, but occasional vowels and hamzas added by a reader. All hands rubricate formulaic expressions and book and chapter headings; abjad notation in the main text highlighted with red overlines. V-signs and three subscript dots applied throughout the text to distinguish consonants (ʿalāmat al-ihmāl). No tables; all three horoscopes usually found in this commentary (256r, 259r and 261r). Codex in good condition; water damage in the upper margins of almost all folios, not affecting the readability; oil stains increasingly towards the end (esp. in the folds, from f. 248 onwards); restorations with pasted paper slips from f. 275 onwards. Dimensions: 25.5×17 cm, written area 19.5×11.5 cm; 17 lines per page. Original Islamic binding, dark leather covers pasted on a leather cover of a later period, decorated with a blind-stamped central mandorla with pendants. Type III binding.

Cont.: astrology. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–303r).

Bibl.: Muḥammad-taqī Dānishpazhūh, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Dānishkada-yi ḥuqūq wa ʿulūm-i siyāsī wa iqtiṣādī-yi Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, Tehran: Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 1960 (1339 H.S.), p. 293; 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. XVIII, p. 972 (no. 8).

1v–⁠303r	\1v\ قال أبو الحسن علي بن رضوان بن علي بن جعفر المتطبّب قصدنا أن نشرح أقاويل الحكيم بطلميوس في صناعة القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث — \303r\ فهذ أشياء قد شرحتها لك فانعم النظر فيها وتأمّلها والله يهدي من يشاء إلى صراط مستقيم. = ʿAlī b. Riḍwān, Tafsīr al-Maqālāt al-arbaʿ (C.2.3) . — Title: Sharḥ Arbaʿ maqālāt (1r). — Index: Book I.1 (=I), 1v–27r; I.2 (=II), 27r–54v; I.3 (=III), 54v–77r; II.1 (=IV), 77r–100v; II.2 (=V), 100v–129v; II.3 (=VI), 129v–150v; III.1 (=VII), 150v–176v; III.2 (=VIII), 176v–203v; III.3 (=IX), 203v–238r; IV.1 (=X), 238r–262r; IV.2 (=XI), 262r–288v; IV.3 (=XII), 288v–303r. — Undated scribal colophon. Substantial marginal corrections and additions; several undated collation marks in the margins; a note in naskh next to the colophon mentions that the copy was collated with the ‘correct source text’ al-aṣl al-ṣaḥīḥ (303r).

1v–⁠303r

\1v\ قال أبو الحسن علي بن رضوان بن علي بن جعفر المتطبّب قصدنا أن نشرح أقاويل الحكيم بطلميوس في صناعة القضاء بالنجوم على الحوادث — \303r\ فهذ أشياء قد شرحتها لك فانعم النظر فيها وتأمّلها والله يهدي من يشاء إلى صراط مستقيم.

= ʿAlī b. Riḍwān, Tafsīr al-Maqālāt al-arbaʿ (C.2.3)

. — Title: Sharḥ Arbaʿ maqālāt (1r). — Index: Book I.1 (=I), 1v–27r; I.2 (=II), 27r–54v; I.3 (=III), 54v–77r; II.1 (=IV), 77r–100v; II.2 (=V), 100v–129v; II.3 (=VI), 129v–150v; III.1 (=VII), 150v–176v; III.2 (=VIII), 176v–203v; III.3 (=IX), 203v–238r; IV.1 (=X), 238r–262r; IV.2 (=XI), 262r–288v; IV.3 (=XII), 288v–303r. — Undated scribal colophon. Substantial marginal corrections and additions; several undated collation marks in the margins; a note in naskh next to the colophon mentions that the copy was collated with the ‘correct source text’ al-aṣl al-ṣaḥīḥ (303r).