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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-yi Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, Ilahiyyāt 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 ownership statement by Jaʿfar …Ṭabasī, the clergy (1r); undated anonymous ownership statement, written above a faded square seal (1r); an erased statement next to the oval seal of Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn Ḥusaynī (1r); a faded square seal (1r); a faded oval seal (2r). A note only presenting the name Ṣādiq (202v); a short note of purchase 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), with the current shelfmark (1v, 80r, 128r).

Cod.: paper, 202 ff. (unfoliated, ‘200’ written in pencil on what we count as f. 198v, and ‘p. 410’ written in 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 section numbers in red (missing for Book I); section beginnings qh (for al-Ṭūsī’s quotations) or n (for al-Samarqandī’s comments) in red. Overlined letters for geometrical points in the text in black or red. Several diagrams with red lines (just in a few cases black), black letters, and labels in black or red; empty space reserved for a further diagram (90v). Codex in good condition; 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, 2011–2014 (1390–1393 H.S.), 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 Images	\1v\ أمّا بعد فلمّا كانت العلوم اليقينيّة والمطالب الحقيقيّة أشرف العلوم مرتبة وأعلاها منزلة لا سيّما الكتاب الموسوم بالمجسطي — \202r\ بخلاف السفليّين فإنّ لهما الاختفاءات الصباحيّة والظهورات المسائيّة لكونهما أسرع من الشمس والعلم عند الله تعالى. = Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Samarqandī, Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.37) . — Title: Kitāb Sharḥ al-Majisṭī (1r). — Additional titles: Sharḥ-i Majisṭī-yi Shams al-Dīn Samarqandī (1r), al-Sharḥ al-Majisṭī (colophon, 202r). — Index: 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 77^bis is an inserted 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, ṣ, and nkh. Some marginal notes trimmed (e.g., 72r). Larger omissions in the text supplemented in the margins. A single gloss (25r).

1v–⁠202r

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\1v\ أمّا بعد فلمّا كانت العلوم اليقينيّة والمطالب الحقيقيّة أشرف العلوم مرتبة وأعلاها منزلة لا سيّما الكتاب الموسوم بالمجسطي — \202r\ بخلاف السفليّين فإنّ لهما الاختفاءات الصباحيّة والظهورات المسائيّة لكونهما أسرع من الشمس والعلم عند الله تعالى.

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

. — Title: Kitāb Sharḥ al-Majisṭī (1r). — Additional titles: Sharḥ-i Majisṭī-yi Shams al-Dīn Samarqandī (1r), al-Sharḥ al-Majisṭī (colophon, 202r). — Index: 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 77^bis is an inserted 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, ṣ, and nkh. Some marginal notes trimmed (e.g., 72r). Larger omissions in the text supplemented in the margins. A single gloss (25r).