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Tunis, Dār al-kutub al-waṭaniyya, 3663⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

this manuscript is a copy of ‘the original’ (al-aṣl), which was completed in the morning of Wednesday, 6 Shaʿbān 704/3 March 1305 (note and colophon, 178v; cf. Morrison).

Or.:

Tabriz; autograph by al-Nīsābūrī (note, 178v). For the authenticity, see Morrison and cf. the autograph copy in MS Rampur, Raza, Persian 1203 of the Kashf al-ḥaqāʾiq, al-Nīsābūrī’s extensive commentary on al-Ṭūsī’s Īlkhānī Zīj; see furthermore a collation note in the hand of al-Nīsābūrī in MS Istanbul, Topkapı, Ahmet III 3330, f. 189v.

Prov.:

a hardly legible statement of ownership dated Muḥarram 960/December 1552-January 1553 (1r). Two ṭughrā-like signatures in maghribī script, dated 1244/1828-9; this is followed by a long note of donation in maghribī script by Abū ʿAbd Allāh Sayyidī Muḥammad 〈al-Aṣram〉, the headscribe of the chancellery (diwān al-inshāʾ) of Le Bardo (just west of Tunis), dated to the middle of Rajab 1272/March-April 1856, in favour of his grandson (1r). Undated statement by Maḥmūd b. ʿAbd al-Nājī b. Muḥammad b. Quṭb al-Dīn, accompanied by a short saying (IIr). Undated statement of ownership by ʿAbd al-Karīm ... b. ʿAlī b. al-Nās (?) (1r); undated statement of ownership by Ibrāhīm Paša … Asʿad (IIr); undated statement by Ismaʿīl b. Muḥammad b. … Ḥalabī (1r). An enumeration of names, partially damaged; verses attributed to Abū Naṣr al-Qushayrī (d. 514/1120), who was a resident of Nishapur; a poem attributed to Abū l-Qāsim al-ʿIbrī and a poem in Persian; a small excerpt probably from Muḥammad ʿAlī at-Tahānawī’s Kashshāf iṣṭilāḥāt al-funūn wa-l-ʿulūm (fl. middle of 12^th/18^th c.) (all on f. IIIr). An illegible statement in nastaʿlīq (Ir) and an illegible round seal (1r); at least four erased statements (IIIr, 1r). Former shelfmarks (?): ‘5348’, ‘6247’ (1r).

Cod.: paper, III+178+II^a ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil, mostly in the central upper part of rectos, repeating ‘162’ and skipping the folios after ‘60’ and ‘117’; bound mostly in quinions with quire signatures on every tenth recto; some catchwords, e.g., 21v, 97v, 169v). A single rather bold nastaʿlīq with tendency to naskh (with thin letters in a quicker style on f. 122r–v). Rarely dotted ductus; vowel marks, hamzas and shaddas mostly limited to book and chapter headings, occasional elongated bowls, mostly disjoined lām-alifs. Some lines crossed out (e.g., 90r, 154v). Book and chapter headings in large and bold letters; Book V headed ‘al-rābiʿ’ and corrected in the margin. Propositions (ashkāl) numbered with mostly red overlined abjad numbers in the margins; qawlu-hu/aqūlu in red; frequent use of textual dividers in the form of three dots. Abjad numbers and Hindu-Arabic numerals in the main text overlined; Hindu-Arabic numerals sometimes in red. Carefully drawn diagrams with black lines and red letters or descriptions, occasionally the other way round. Table lines in red. A small roundel in goldish green with a plant-based motif in the shape of a ‘hooked cross’ in bluish and red colours (1r). Codex in good condition; some damage by insects, mostly in the margins and the fold; slight water damage in the margins; minor stains (e.g., ff. 38, 164). Dimensions: 24,2×16,7 cm; 33 lines per page. Brown leather covers with borders and central mandorla with floral motifs. Current binding not recognisable from the scans; traces of a flap on the front doublure and ff. I–2 and 95v.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–178v). Blank: Iv, IIv, IIIv, 117^bisr, I^ar, II^av (except for a stamped shelfmark).

Bibl.: Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt. Al-juzʾ al-rābiʿ, Tunis: Dār al-kutub al-waṭaniyya, 1978, p. 133; Robert G. Morrison, Islam and Science. The Intellectual Career of Nīẓām al-Dīn al-Nīsābūrī, New York: Routledge, 2007, pp. 148–149. Dār al-kutub al-waṭaniyya: https://www.bibliotheque.nat.tn/CATG/doc/SYRACUSE/1849600.

1v–⁠178v	\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه با}لحـ{ـمد لواهب السعادة. واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر تمتري الزيادة. فأحمده على ما أوّلانا من النـ{ـعـ}ـم ذات الطول والعرض — \178v\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة ويسرى. ويجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة وبشرى. ويرحم اللّه عبداً قال آمينا. = Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) . — Title: Sharḥ al-Majisṭī … al-Nīsābūrī (1r). — Additional Titles: Sharḥ Majisṭī li-l-Mawlā Niẓām al-Dīn al-Aʿrāj bi-khaṭti-hi (Ir); Ḥawāsh ʿalā l-Majisṭī wa-sharḥ-hu musammāh bi-Taʿbīr al-Taḥrīr li-Niẓām al-Dīn al-Nīsābūrī (IIr); Taʿbīr al-Taḥrīr (IIr, 1r); al-Majisṭī fī-l-Hayʾa (1r). — Index: author’s preface, 1v–3r; Book I, 3r–33r; II, 33v–47r; III, 47r–63r; IV, 63r–72r; V, 72v–92r; VI, 92v–117v; VII, 117^bisv–122r; VIII, 122v–126r; IX, 126v–137r; X, 137v–143v; XI, 144r–151r; XII, 151r–163r; XIII, 163v–178v. — Dated authorial colophons for each book (with the dates as indicated in the work description) and an undated note in the hand of al-Nīsābūrī (178v). Frequent long marginal corrections in the hand of al-Nīsābūrī indicated by siglum ‘ṣḥḥ’. Few marginal annotations in at least one other nastaʿlīq hand (e.g., 16v).

1v–⁠178v

\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه با}لحـ{ـمد لواهب السعادة. واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر تمتري الزيادة. فأحمده على ما أوّلانا من النـ{ـعـ}ـم ذات الطول والعرض — \178v\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة ويسرى. ويجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة وبشرى. ويرحم اللّه عبداً قال آمينا.

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

. — Title: Sharḥ al-Majisṭī … al-Nīsābūrī (1r). — Additional Titles: Sharḥ Majisṭī li-l-Mawlā Niẓām al-Dīn al-Aʿrāj bi-khaṭti-hi (Ir); Ḥawāsh ʿalā l-Majisṭī wa-sharḥ-hu musammāh bi-Taʿbīr al-Taḥrīr li-Niẓām al-Dīn al-Nīsābūrī (IIr); Taʿbīr al-Taḥrīr (IIr, 1r); al-Majisṭī fī-l-Hayʾa (1r). — Index: author’s preface, 1v–3r; Book I, 3r–33r; II, 33v–47r; III, 47r–63r; IV, 63r–72r; V, 72v–92r; VI, 92v–117v; VII, 117^bisv–122r; VIII, 122v–126r; IX, 126v–137r; X, 137v–143v; XI, 144r–151r; XII, 151r–163r; XIII, 163v–178v. — Dated authorial colophons for each book (with the dates as indicated in the work description) and an undated note in the hand of al-Nīsābūrī (178v). Frequent long marginal corrections in the hand of al-Nīsābūrī indicated by siglum ‘ṣḥḥ’. Few marginal annotations in at least one other nastaʿlīq hand (e.g., 16v).