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New York, Columbia University – Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Or. 303⁢⁢⁢⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

finished on 17 Rabīʿ al-awwal 1283/30 July 1866 (259v).

Or.:

apparently India, unknown copyist; copied from an exemplar finished on Wednesday, 22 Ramaḍān 663/8 July 1265 for Maḥmūd al-Khaṭīb in Maragha (259v). The copyist quotes the colophon of the autograph dated 5 Shawwāl 644/13 February 1247 (259v), from which the exemplar had been copied.

Prov.:

a short poem, said in the autograph to have been written by al-Ṭūsī (1r). A longer poem from al-Nīsābūrī’s commentary praising al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr (1r). Persian notes mentioning personal events nine days before and five days after the date of copying in 1283/1866 (1r). The codex was purchased for 150 Indian rupees (Rs) (front cover, note between front flyleaves). Ex-libris of George Arthur Plimpton (1855–1936) (front and back doublures). Cardbox card for the ‘Almagest in Arabic translation’ by Claudius Ptolemy, and a paper slip describing the work and codex (front flyleaves).

Cod.: paper, 259 ff. (foliated with Urdu forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in red, mostly in the top center of rectos, f. 210 preceding f. 209; the foliation includes dozens of sheets full of notes that were glued onto additionally mounted leaves, the number of folios of the Taḥrīr itself is 189; occasional catchwords). An elegant nastaʿlīq hand in black with dotted ductus on ff. 1v–86v; several other black nastaʿlīq hands for the remainder of the text; the tables by a different, much sloppier hand (except for their titles); the notes on inserted sheets in a large variety of hands. No use of red ink. All books starting with a basmala and enlarged title at the top of a page; section titles overlined. Sloppily drawn diagrams and tables. Codex in acceptable condition; some water damage, wear at the outer corners, all margins restored. Dimensions 32×21 cm, written area: 23×12 cm; 13 or 14 lines per page on ff. 1v–86v, 19 lines per page with variations elsewhere. Half leather and mottled orange paper covers (CLIO). Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–259v). Blank: 132v, as well as the back side of numerous inserted folios onto which loose sheets of paper were pasted.

Bibl.: CLIO: https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/18305793.

1v–⁠259v	\1v\ \الحمد للّه مبدء كلّ مبدء وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير وولّي كلّ بداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \259v\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول إذ وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (1r, al-Nīsābūrī’s poem). — Index: preface, 1v–2v; Book I, 2v–56v; II, 57r–86v; III, 87r–109v; IV, 110r–132r; V, 133r–155v; VI, 157r–175v; VII, 177r–193v; VIII, 194r–209v; IX, 210r–224v; X, 225r–230v; XI, 231r–239r; XII, 242r–248v; XIII, 249r–259v. — Authorial and scribal colophons (259v). No marginal corrections. In the largest part of the manuscript, the margins and even the spaces between the lines are entirely filled up with glosses, often making it impossible to see the main text for the annotations. Additional diagrams in the margins and on the inserted sheets.

1v–⁠259v

\1v\ \الحمد للّه مبدء كلّ مبدء وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير وولّي كلّ بداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \259v\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول إذ وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.

= Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18)

. — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (1r, al-Nīsābūrī’s poem). — Index: preface, 1v–2v; Book I, 2v–56v; II, 57r–86v; III, 87r–109v; IV, 110r–132r; V, 133r–155v; VI, 157r–175v; VII, 177r–193v; VIII, 194r–209v; IX, 210r–224v; X, 225r–230v; XI, 231r–239r; XII, 242r–248v; XIII, 249r–259v. — Authorial and scribal colophons (259v). No marginal corrections. In the largest part of the manuscript, the margins and even the spaces between the lines are entirely filled up with glosses, often making it impossible to see the main text for the annotations. Additional diagrams in the margins and on the inserted sheets.