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Hyderabad, Oriental Manuscript Library and Research Institute, riyāḍī 98⁢⁢

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Incomplete single work: Arabic. Undated. Unknown origin and scribe. Prov.:

two ownership statements by Sulaymān al-Falakī al-Ḥanafī al-ʿUthmānī b. Ḥamza b. Bakhshāyish, one dated 1017/1608-9 and accompanied by a signature (1r); on him, see OALTEkmeleddin İhsanoğlu, Osmanlı Astronomi Literatürü Tarihi, 2 vols, Istanbul: IRCICA, 1997, vol. I, p. 194 (no. 95), where he is believed to have died around 990/1582. A Persian ownership statement dated 1111/1699-1700 (1r). Undated ownership statement by Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Shaʿbān (1r). An ownership statement by Ibn … b. Yaḥyā … al-Ḥanafī (?) (1r). A partially damaged statement mentioning the name Nūr al-Dīn b. Muḥammad … al-Hilālī (1r). A partially damaged statement of purchase by Rafīʿ al-Dīn in Shāhjahān Ābād (Delhi) (1r). Some more erased or damaged seals and statements (1r). Date of accession ‘1319’/1901-2, accompanied by the current shelfmark and the number ‘5918’, all in red (Ir); accession no. 5588 (Ir, 1r, 228v). Large and small round stamps of the Aṣafiyya Library/the Hyderabad State Library (1r, 1v, 228v).

Cod.: paper, I+228+I^a ff. (foliated with Urdu forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil in the upper centre of rectos; catchwords, often missing). A single naskh hand with occasional tendency to nastaʿlīq; mostly dotted ductus, some vowel marks, final kāfs indicated with a second smaller kāf above. Book headings in bold thuluth; section beginnings and qawlu-hu / aqūlu in red; some use of red overlines as textual dividers; frequent use of red dots as textual dividers up to f. 4v; propositions in parts of Book II numbered with red abjad numerals with red overlines in the margins. Abjad numerals overlined or in red with or without overlines; Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals overlined or in red. Diagrams with black lines and red geometrical points and exceptionally vice versa. Tables with red lines. Codex in acceptable condition; minor ink corrosion, some damage by insects throughout, especially in the margins and folds, sometimes affecting the readability; water or moisture damage in some margins and especially in the upper folds of ff. 164–210; restorations with transparent tape or paper slips. Dimensions: not given; 25 lines per page.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–228v). Blank: Iv, I^ar, and presumably I^av.

Bibl.: ʿUthmān ʿAlī-Khān Bahādur, Fihrist-i kutub-i ʿarabī, fārsī wa urdū makhzūna-yi Kutubkhāna-yi Āṣafiyya-yi Sarkār-i ʿĀlī, vol. I, Hyderabad: Akhtar-i Dakan, 1914 (1332 Hijra), pp. 800–801; OMLRI Accession Register Book, vol. I, p. 204 (no. 47).

1v–⁠228v	\1v\ السعد قرين من صدّر (كذا) كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة. واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر تمتري الزيادة. فأحمده على ما أوّلًا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض — \228v\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة ويسري ويجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرمة (كذا) وبشري ويرحم اللّه عبدًا قال آمينًا. = Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) . — Title: Kitāb Sharḥ al-Majisṭī fī-l-hayʾa wa-l-handasa wa-l-falak li-l-mawlā Niẓām al-Dīn al-Aʿraj al-Nīshābūrī (1r, with Kitāb in red). — Additional Title: Kitāb Sharḥ al-Majisṭī (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–3v; Book I, 3v–43r; II, 43r–59v, 120r–121r; III, 121r–143r; IV, 143v–155v; V, 155v–183r; VI, 183r–211v, 60r–62v; VII, 62v–69r; VIII, 69r–74r; IX, 74r–88r; X, 88r–95v; XI, 95v–104v; XII, 104v–119v, 212r; XIII, 212r–228v (incomplete). Some folios displaced; one or two folios from the middle of Book XIII missing. — Dated authorial colophons for each book except XIII; undated scribal colophon (228v). Some marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ; some of the annotations preserved in the autograph MS Tunis, Waṭaniyya, 3663⁢ and MS Istanbul, Süleymaniye, Carullah 1485 are here present in the margins in the hands of the scribe. Some marginal annotations in a fine red naskh hand similar to the scribe’s and mostly headed ḥāshiya. Some marginal annotations in a fine naskh hand using, among others, the reference mark ‘12 q’ (e.g., 1v, 9v).

1v–⁠228v

\1v\ السعد قرين من صدّر (كذا) كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة. واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر تمتري الزيادة. فأحمده على ما أوّلًا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض — \228v\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة ويسري ويجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرمة (كذا) وبشري ويرحم اللّه عبدًا قال آمينًا.

= Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38)

. — Title: Kitāb Sharḥ al-Majisṭī fī-l-hayʾa wa-l-handasa wa-l-falak li-l-mawlā Niẓām al-Dīn al-Aʿraj al-Nīshābūrī (1r, with Kitāb in red). — Additional Title: Kitāb Sharḥ al-Majisṭī (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–3v; Book I, 3v–43r; II, 43r–59v, 120r–121r; III, 121r–143r; IV, 143v–155v; V, 155v–183r; VI, 183r–211v, 60r–62v; VII, 62v–69r; VIII, 69r–74r; IX, 74r–88r; X, 88r–95v; XI, 95v–104v; XII, 104v–119v, 212r; XIII, 212r–228v (incomplete). Some folios displaced; one or two folios from the middle of Book XIII missing. — Dated authorial colophons for each book except XIII; undated scribal colophon (228v). Some marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ; some of the annotations preserved in the autograph MS Tunis, Waṭaniyya, 3663⁢ and MS Istanbul, Süleymaniye, Carullah 1485 are here present in the margins in the hands of the scribe. Some marginal annotations in a fine red naskh hand similar to the scribe’s and mostly headed ḥāshiya. Some marginal annotations in a fine naskh hand using, among others, the reference mark ‘12 q’ (e.g., 1v, 9v).