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1. Sharḥ-i S̲amarah-i Baṭlamyūs
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- Abstract: Two texts on astrology and astronomy by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī.Binding note: Limp dark brown leather with blind-stamped fillets; water damaged.Contents: "1. fol. 3a-53a: Sharḥ-i S̲amarah-i Baṭlamyūs. Persian translation of and commentary on an Arabic version of Ptolemy's CentiloquiumContents: a collection of a hundred aphorisms on astrology. With original Arabic text; missing first page."Contents: "2. fol. 54a-130a: Risālah-i Muʻīnīyah dar ʻilm-i hayʾat. Manual of astronomy dedicated to Muʻīn al-Dīn Abū al-ShamsContents: son of the author's patron Nāṣir al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Abī Manṣūr (governor of Quhistan). Missing first page; with numerous diagrams."Ms. composite codex.Title of first text from fol. 1a, by a later hand; title of second text from fol. 54a.On front cover: Label reading "284" in Arabic script.Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on first flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 15-16 lines per page; written in casual nastaʻliq by two different hands in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Some damp staining; edges somewhat ragged.Origin: First text completed Ramaḍān 935 H May-June 1529 by Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Ḥasanī (fol. 53a). Second text completed on Wednesday, 7 Rabīʻ II 681 H 15 July 1282 (fol. 130a).