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Najaf, Maktabat al-Imām al-Ḥakīm, 1263

[Colour scanned images of pp. 2–95 of the first section and pp. 2 and 69 of the second section.]

Collection of two works: Arabic. Date:

first section completed in the morning of Saturday, 15 Shaʿbān 1310/4 March 1893 (p. 95); second section completed in 1330/1911-2 (p. 69).

Or.:

unknown; first section copied by Aḥmad b. al-Marḥūm al-Ḥājj al-Shaykh Muḥammad Ḥasan al-Munajjim al-Rashtī (p. 95).

Prov.:

the first part of the present manuscript may be identical with a Sharḥ Thamarat Baṭlamyūs listed among the books of Muḥammad b. Ṭāhir b. Ḥabīb al-Samāwī (RIMA); al-Samawī’s private collection was partly sold to the Maktabat al-Imām al-Ḥakīm after his death in 1950 (see Sabine Schmidtke, ‘Saʿd b. Manṣūr Ibn Kammūna’s Writings and Transcriptions in the Maktabat al-Rawḍa al-Ḥaydariyya, Najaf. Preservation, Loss, and Recovery of the Philosophical Heritage of Muslims and Jews’, Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 10 (2022), pp. 278–325, here pp. 293–294; see also MS Princeton, UL, Garrett 34Yq).

Cod.: paper, 96+69+I^a pp. (first section not paginated, we have assigned odd page numbers to rectos; second section paginated with Hindu-Arabic numerals, p. 2 being a verso; catchwords). Two different hands for the two sections. Aḥmad al-Rashtī’s hand (pp. 2–95): a very clear black naskh; fully dotted ductus with shaddas, tanwīns, maddas and sporadic alif khanjariyyas and hamzas; title and section beginnings (including al-sharḥ for the commentary) in red; Pseudo-Ptolemy’s verba and various sentence beginnings overlined in red; Hindu-Arabic numerals in red, verbum numbers written out both in red in the main text and in black in the margin, with the corresponding abjad numerals in red in the margin. Second hand (pp. 2, 69): a smaller black naskh; fully dotted ductus with maddas; chapter titles in red, section beginnings overlined in red; abjad numerals in red. A horoscope, drawn with a ruler, with lines in red, text in black, abjad numerals in black, and Hindu-Arabic numerals in red (p. 69). Codex in good condition; inner margins reinforced with tape. Dimensions: 19.3×13.5 cm; 17 lines per page in the first section, 23 in the second section.

Cont.: astrology and astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (first section, pp. 2–95); al-Kāfī Maḥmūd b. Aḥmad al-Awfī, Risāla fī Kayfiyyat istikhrāj al-taqwīm (second section, pp. 2–69). Blank: none.

Bibl.: RIMARevue de l’Institut des Manuscripts Arabes (Majalla Maʿhad al-Makhṭūṭāt al-ʿArabiyya), 58 vols, Cairo, 1955–2014, vol. IV, p. 231 (no. 322); Muḥammad Zuwayn et al., Muʿjam al-makhṭūṭāt al-najafiyya, Qum: Maktabat Samāḥat Āyat Allāh al-ʿUẓmā al-Marʿashī al-Najafī al-Kubrā, 2012, pp. 202 and 499; MuʿjamMuṣṭafā Dirāyatī, Muʿjam al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʿirāqiyya, 20 vols, Tehran: Library, Museum and Documentation Center of The Islamic Consultative Assembly, 2019, vol. IX, p. 357 (no. 37131) and p. 359 (no. 37135); vol. XIII, p. 478 (no. 57272). Maktabat al-Imām al-Ḥakīm: http://alhakeemlib.org/WebPages/Autograph.aspx.

pp. 2–⁠95	\p. 2\ مائة كلمة وكلمة هذا كتاب شرح الثمرة. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. ويقال له صد كلمة لبطليموس. يقول مولانا المعظّم وسيّدنا الأعظم الصاحب المكرّم علّامة العرب والعجم سلطان المحقّقين أفضل المتأخّرين نصير الحقّ والدين برهان الإسلام والمسلمين محمّد بن محمّد الطوسيّ — \p. 94\ وإن لم يسير (كذا) فإنّ الخارجيّ من حظيرة الإقليم يعني من وسط الإقليم. فهذه تمام كلمات كتاب الثمرة وتفسيرها. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Tafsīr Kitāb al-Thamara (Arabic–Arabic version) (C.3.5) . — Title: Miʾat kalima wa-kalima (p. 2). — Additional titles: Kitāb Sharḥ al-Thamara wa-yuqālu la-hu Ṣad kalima li-Baṭlīmūs (p. 2); Kalimāt Kitāb al-Thamara wa-tafsīruhā (p. 94). — Index: dedicatory preface, p. 2; Pseudo-Ptolemy’s introduction, pp. 2–3; 102 verba intertwined with the commentary, pp. 3–95. — Commentator’s colophon; dated scribal colophon (pp. 94–95). Occasional corrections by the scribe and glosses by another hand; one gloss was erased (p. 36). This manuscript was the source of the online transcription referred to in C.3.5.

pp. 2–⁠95

\p. 2\ مائة كلمة وكلمة هذا كتاب شرح الثمرة. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. ويقال له صد كلمة لبطليموس. يقول مولانا المعظّم وسيّدنا الأعظم الصاحب المكرّم علّامة العرب والعجم سلطان المحقّقين أفضل المتأخّرين نصير الحقّ والدين برهان الإسلام والمسلمين محمّد بن محمّد الطوسيّ — \p. 94\ وإن لم يسير (كذا) فإنّ الخارجيّ من حظيرة الإقليم يعني من وسط الإقليم. فهذه تمام كلمات كتاب الثمرة وتفسيرها.

= Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Tafsīr Kitāb al-Thamara (Arabic–Arabic version) (C.3.5)

. — Title: Miʾat kalima wa-kalima (p. 2). — Additional titles: Kitāb Sharḥ al-Thamara wa-yuqālu la-hu Ṣad kalima li-Baṭlīmūs (p. 2); Kalimāt Kitāb al-Thamara wa-tafsīruhā (p. 94). — Index: dedicatory preface, p. 2; Pseudo-Ptolemy’s introduction, pp. 2–3; 102 verba intertwined with the commentary, pp. 3–95. — Commentator’s colophon; dated scribal colophon (pp. 94–95). Occasional corrections by the scribe and glosses by another hand; one gloss was erased (p. 36). This manuscript was the source of the online transcription referred to in C.3.5.