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Places of copying

Last update: 19 May 2023

Detail of the Colophon
Ms. Tehran, Kitābḫānah-i Millī Malik, 1085 - Colophon, detail including info on place of copying

Āgra Allāhābād Baghdad Ḫarbart
Iṣfahān Marāġa Mārdīn Mosul
Nīšābūr Old Delhi Qazvin Qum
Šīrāz Tabrīz Tehran Tūn



For sigla, styles, and conventions, see Legenda and Bibliography


Āgra (India)

Ms. Lucknow, Nadwat al-ʿUlamāʾ, ḥikma wa-falsafa 58/6826 (Muḥarram 1038H/August-September 1628, from an exemplar of Rabīʿ II 509H/1115, copied in Baghdad; copyist: *** Ibn Muḥammad ʿAlī al-Māzandaranī)

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Allāhābād (India)

Ms. Mubarakpur, Madrasat Iḥyāʾ al-ʿulūm, 4 (1340H/1922; copyist: Muḥammad Yūsuf Ḫān)

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Baghdad (Iraq)

[Ms. copied in 503H/1110, by Maškūr Ibn Sahl Ibn Maškūr al-Ṭabīb, exemplar of ms. Oxford, Wadham College, Ferdowsi Library, Minasian Collection, 349/1 (1077H/1666-7)]

[Ms. copied in 503H/1110, by Maškūr Ibn Sahl Ibn Maškūr al-Ṭabīb, exemplar of ms. Qum, Āyat Allāh ʿAllāma Ḥasan Ḥasanzadeh Āmulī Collection, no number [2] (1070H/1660)]

[Ms. copied in 503H/1110 (Ǧumādà II/January), exemplar of ms. Najaf, Maktabat al-Imām Amīr al-Muʾminīn, 1096 (Raǧab 1091H/July-August 1680)]

[Ms. copied in 503H/1110 (Ǧumādà II/January), probable exemplar of ms. Qum, Kitābḫānah-i Āyat Allāh Burūǧirdī, 1391, apparently copied in X-XI/XVI-XVII c.]

[Ms. copied in 503H/1110 (Ǧumādà II/January), exemplar of ms. Qum, Markaz-i Iḥyāʾ-i Mīrāṯ-i Islāmī, 5457, apparently copied in X-XI/XVI-XVII c.]

[Ms. copied in 503H/1110 (Ǧumādà II/January), exemplar of ms. Rasht, Kitābḫānah-i Millī, 37 (1296H/1878-9; copyist: ʿAbd Allāh al-šahīr bi-Bāqir)]

Ms. Tehran, Kitābḫānah-i Millī Malik, 1085 (20 Rabīʿ II 509H/19 September 1115)

[Ms. copied in 509H/1115 (20 Rabīʿ II/12 September), exemplar of ms. Lucknow, Nadwat al-ʿUlamāʾ, ḥikma wa-falsafa 58/6826 (1038H/1628; copyist: *** Ibn Muḥammad ʿAlī al-Māzandaranī; place of copying: Āgra, India)]

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Ḫarbart (= Ḫarbūt, nowadays Elazıǧ) (East Turkey)

Ms. Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Ayasofya 2442 (671-4H/1273-6; copyist: Amīr al-Dīn Māniyūl [?], in the colophon written by Buḫtanaṣar Ibn Šimʿūn the Physician, from Qalʿat al-Rūm [nowadays Hromgla] = Nebukadnāzar Ben Shem‛ūn in the last line, in Syriac, of the colophon; other place of copying: Marāġa, Iran [671H])

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Iṣfahān (Iran)

Ms. Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Minutoli 229 (1083H/1672-3; copyist: Ibn Muḥammad Muʾmin Ṣādiq Ḫunsārī (= Ḫwānsārī))

Ms. Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Lâleli 2546 (1080-90H/1669-80; copyist: Muḥammad Marḥamat Bardaʿī Muḥammad Walī)

Ms. Istanbul, Üniversitesi Nadir Eserler Kütüphanesi, Arapça 760 (10-19 Ṣafar 1066H/9-18 December 1655; copyist: ʿAlī Ibn Ḥamd Allāh Ibn ʿAlī Ibn Ḥusayn Gīlānī)

Ms. Qum, Āyat Allāh ʿAllāma Ḥasan Ḥasanzadeh Āmulī Private Collection, no number [5] (1109H/1697-8)

Ms. Qum, Kitābḫānah-i Pažūhišgāh ʿUlūm wa-Taḥqīqāt Islāmī, 842 (1090H/1679-80; copyist: Ṣadr Ibn al-Ḥusayn Ibn Mīr Maʿṣūm Gīlānī)

Ms. Qum, Madrasah-i Ḥuǧǧatiyya, 590 (1100H/1688-9; copyist: Karam ʿAlī Ibn Muḥammad Ǧān)

Ms. Tehran, Kitābḫānah-i Maǧlis-i Šūrā-yi Islāmī, 1902 (1088H/1678; copyist: ʿAlī Naqī Ibn Muḥammad Amīn Ibn Ḥusayn Ṣūfī al-Ǧīlī)

Ms. Tehran, Kitābḫānah-i Markazī-yi Dānišgāh-i Tihrān, 4214, Miškāt 242 (949H/1542)

Ms. Tehran, Kitābḫānah-i Millī Ǧumhūri-yi Islami-yi Iran, 20676 (1080H/1669; copyist: Muḥammad Sadīd Ibn al-Mawlà Aḥmad al-Šuʿaybī al-Ǧīlī)

Ms. Tehran, Kitābḫānah-i Vizārat-i Umūr-i Ḫāriǧa, 614 (1062H/1652; copyist: ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Sulaymān al-Basṭāmī)

Iṣfahān (Iran), Madrasa Ǧaddah

Ms. Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Ragıp Paşa (ex: Ragıp Paşa Kütüphanesi) 865 (1070H/1660)

[Iṣfahān (Iran) ?], Madrasat Mullā ʿAbd Allāh

Ms. Kütahya, Vahit Paşa İl Halk Kütüphanesi, 1985 (1100H/1689; copyist: Muḥammad Saʿīd al-Ḥasanī al-Ǧīlānī)

Iṣfahān (Iran), Madrasat al-Šafīqiyya

[Ms. Qum, Āyat Allāh ʿAllāma Ḥasan Ḥasanzadeh Āmulī Collection, no number [6] (1077H/1666-7) ?]

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Marāġa (Iran)

Ms. Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Ayasofya 2442 (671-4H/1273-6; copyist: Amīr al-Dīn Māniyūl [?], in the colophon written by Buḫtanaṣar Ibn Šimʿūn the Physician, from Qalʿat al-Rūm [nowadays Hromgla] = Nebukadnāzar Ben Shem‛ūn in the last line, in Syriac, of the colophon; other place of copying: Ḫarbart [= Ḫarbūt, nowadays Elazığ], East Turkey [674H])

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Mārdīn or Māridīn (South East Turkey)

Ms. Ankara, Millī Kütüphane, B 153 (694H/1295; copyist: ʿAbd Allāh Ibn Arġuš al-Baghdādī)

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Mosul (Iraq)

Ms. copied in 652H/1254, and collated with ms. London, British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections, Islamic 1811 (1154H/1741)

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Nīšābūr (Iran) [?]

[Ms. in which miI is copied in 468H/1076 (6 Ḏū l-Ḥiǧǧa/11 July), exemplar of ms. Rampur, Rampur Raza Library, 3477 ع (+ m, ṭ, r), apparently copied in XII/XVIII c.]

[Ms. in which m is copied in 469H/1076 (23 Rabīʿ I/25 October) and ṭii is copied in 469H/1077 (18 Dey Māh/8 January), exemplar of ms. Calcutta, Asiatic Society of Bengal Library, Ar. 102 (+ m, ṭ, r), apparently copied in XI/XVII c.]

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(Old Delhi=) Šāh Ǧahān Ābād (India)

Ms. London, British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections, Islamic 1811 (1152H/1739-40 [end of copying of r]; 1154H/1741 [end of copying of Ilāhiyyāt]; copyist: Ibn Ḥāǧǧī ʿAbd al-Hakīm Muḥammad Ṣādiq (colophon of r) = al-Ṣādiq Ibn Ḥāǧǧī ʿAbd al-Hakīm (colophon of Ilāhiyyāt)

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Qazvin (Iran)

[Ms. copied in 975H/1567-8, exemplar of ms. Tehran, Kitābḫānah-i Millī Ǧumhūri-yi Islami-yi Iran, 35727-5 (1068H/1657-8)]

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Qum (Iran)

Ms. Tehran, Kitābḫānah-i Maǧlis-i Šūrā-yi Islāmī, Ṭabāṭabā’ī 862 (1053H/1643-4; copyist: Muḥammad Zamān al-Naǧafī (?) al-Šīrāzī)

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Šīrāz (Iran), Madrasat Dār al-Aytām

Ms. Istanbul, Nuruosmaniye Kütüphanesi, 2709 (886-97H/1481-91; copyists: Ibn Muḥammad Zāhid al-Ḥiǧāzī al-Ḥanafī  [in Šīrāz, Madrasat Dār al-Aytām 886H], Aḥmad Ibn ʿAlī [897H])

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Tabrīz (Iran), Madrasat Ūrḫān

Ms. Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Damad İbrahim Paşa 823 (697H/1297-8; copyist: Šahāb al-Karmīnī)

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Tehran (Iran), Madrasat Ḫān Marwzī (= Marwī)

Ms. Tehran, Kitābḫānah-i Markazī-yi Dānišgāh-i Tihrān, 236/3 (1295H/1878; copyist: Maḥmūd Šarīf Ibn Āqā Nūrak)

Tehran (Iran), Madrasa Muḥammadiyya

Ms. Tehran, Kitābḫānah-i Millī Ǧumhūri-yi Islami-yi Iran, 7002 (1295H/1878; copyist: Sayyid Mahdī Ibn Maʿṣūm Ibn Ǧaʿfar al-Ḥusaynī al-Ǧīlānī)

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Tūn (nowadays Ferdows) (Iran)

Ms. Iran, Mashhad, Kitābḫānah-i Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍavī, 172 (1053H/1643; copyist: Muḥammad Mīrak, a.k.a. Mūsà al-Ḥusaynī al-Tūnī)

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