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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi Dānishkada-yi ilāhiyyāt, 678 D

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]
Single work: Arabic. Date:

Tuesday, 10 Shawwāl 1013/1 March 1605 (202r).

Or.:

unknown; copied by Ibn Aḥmad Muḥammad Naṣr Allāh (202r).

Prov.:

undated statement of ownership by Jaʿfar …Ṭabasī, the clergy (1r); undated statement of unknown ownership, written above an illegible faded square seal (1r); an erased statement next to the oval seal of Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn Ḥusaynī (1r); an illegible faded square seal (1r); a faded oval seal (2r). A note only presenting the name Ṣādiq (202v); short note stating that the (unknown) owner of the manuscript bought it from a certain Mahdī (202v). Four occurrences of the old stamp of the Faculty of Theology of Tehran University, the first one dated 1341 Hijri-i shamsi (1962) and with the current shelf mark (1v, 80r, 128r).

Cod.: paper, 202 ff. (unfoliated, ‘200’ written in pencil on what we count as f. 198v, and ‘p. 410’ with ink on f. 202r; catchwords). A single clear nastaʿlīq hand in black; mostly dotted ductus, no shaddas, final hamzas indicated by a thin stroke very similar to the letter rāʾ. Book and chapter numbers in red (the first book number missing); each section starts with qh (for al-Ṭūsī’s quotations) or n (for al-Samarqandī’s comments), both in red. Overlined letters for geometrical arguments in the text in black or red. Several diagrams with lines in red (just in a few cases in black), letters in black, and labels in black or red; empty space reserved for a further diagram (90v). Manuscript in good condition with minor moisture stains in the margins. Dimensions: 22×12.5 cm, written area: 15×6 cm; 20 lines per page. Dark brown leather cover decorated with a central mandorla and pendants surrounded by a frame. Type II binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–202r). Blank: none.

Bibl.: Muḥammad Bāqir Ḥujjatī, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Dānishkada-yi Ilāhiyyāt wa Maʿārif-i Islāmī, 2 vols, Tehran: Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 1966–1969, p. 588 (new edition: vol. II, p. 242); FankhāMuṣṭafā Dirāyatī, Fihristgān-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Īrān (Fankhā), 45 vols, Tehran: Library, Museum and Documentation Center of The Islamic Consultative Assembly, 20 2011, vol. XIX, pp. 275–276; Taro Mimura, ‘The Attribution of an Arabic Commentary on Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī to Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī’, Nazariyat 8/2 (2022), pp. 145–166, here pp. 154–155.

1v–⁠202r

\1v\ 〈…〉 فلمّا كانت العلوم اليقينيّة والمطالب الحقيقيّة أشرف العلوم مرتبة وأعلاها منزلة لا سيّما الكتاب الموسوم بالمجسطي الذي هو المقصد الأقصى والمطلب الأعلى من العلوم الرياضيّة وخاصّة كتاب تحرير المجسطي — \202r\ والثالث لأبعاد الاختفاءات المسائيّة وليس المعلومة لاختفاءات الصباحيّة ولا الظهورات المسائيّة لكون الشمس أسرع منها بخلاف السفليّين فإنّ لهما الاختفاءات الصباحيّة والظهورات المسائيّة لكونهما أسرع من الشمس والعلم عند الله تعالى.

= Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Samarqandī, Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.37)

. — Title: Kitāb Sharḥ al-Majisṭī (1r). — Additional titles: Sharḥ-i Majisṭī (1r), al-Sharḥ al-Majisṭī (202r). — Index: author’s preface, 1v; Book I, 1v–25r; II, 25r–38v; III, 39r–53r; IV, 53r–68r; V, 68r–94r; VI, 94r–118r; VII, 118r–121r; VIII, 121r–126r; IX, 126r–143r; X, 143r–149r; XI, 149r–161v; XII, 161v–178r; XIII, 178r–202r. Folio 77bis is an inlaid slip of paper in the scribe’s hand with a diagram that was omitted from the main text. Dated scribal colophon (202r). Collated manuscript with marginal corrections in the main hand indicated by ṣḥ, , and nkh. Some marginal notes trimmed (e.g., 72r). Larger omissions in the text supplemented in the margins. A single gloss (25r).