Qāḍīʹzādah ʻalá al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah
Contributors: Salīm, Muḥammad former owner; ʻAbd, Muḥammad Riḍā, former owner; Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Language: ara
Number of pages: 132
Subjects: Arab Astronomy; Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800
Work titles: Sharḥ al-Jighmīnī
Description: A commentary on al-Jighmīnī's book on astronomy, al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah.
Notes: Ms.

Title from fol. 1a, added later.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-751.

Paper:  tan paper, no visible watermarks, in moderate condition and loose from the spine:  some leaves repaired and dark stains on first leaves.  Text written in different hands; in black ink with rubricated headings.  Extensive marginal notes in several hands; text partially underlined in red.  Catchwords on rectos.

Nastaʻliq script; 12 lines in written area, 13 x 7 cm.

Illustrations.

Fol. 1a-132b.

Ownership stamp of Muḥammad Sālim and Muḥammad Riḍā al-ʻAbd (?) dated 1085 H [1674] which are both partially illegible and a third illegible ownership stamp on fol. 4a.  Stamp of endowment Waqf Jahardah [?] Maʻṣūm on fol. 132b.

Binding is loose.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

Arabic, Persian poem on fol. 4a.

Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
Table of contents: title: Poem in Arabic on fol. 1a, followed by 3 leaves of commentaries; 3 other leaves of notes between fol. 14 and 15.