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Tunis, Dār al-kutub al-waṭaniyya, 9828⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

copied on a Tuesday in Jumādā l-thāniya 706 (?)/December 1306-January 1307 (138r).

Or.:

copied by Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAbdallāh al-Nisābūrī in ‘baladat Herat’ (138r).

Prov.:

statement of ownership by the Ottoman historiographer 〈Küçük〉 Çelebī-Zāda Ismaʿīl ʿĀṣim (d. 1174/1760), dated 〈1〉152/1739-40 in the city of Bursa (2r). A fragment from the beginning of Ibn Sīnā’s Compendium on the Soul (1v) and the title al-juzʾ al-ʿāshir min Kitāb nasab Quraysh by Muṣʿab b. ʿAbdallāh Zubayrī (2r) suggest that ff. 1–2 were reused. Former shelfmark of the Ṣādiqiyya library: 14555 (Ir, 2r with stamp). Various stamps of the Dār al-kutub al-waṭaniyya (e.g., 1r, 13r, 68v, 138v).

Cod.: paper, I+138+II^a ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil mostly in the upper left corner of rectos, repeating 94 and with an unnumbered leaf after f. 116; catchwords, often invisible due to damage or restorations). A single naskh hand with minor nastaʿlīq influence; rarely dotted ductus; some vowel marks, hamzas and shaddas, frequent mukhaffafa marshūqa lām-alif-ligatures). Book headings mostly in bold and black letters and mostly introduced by a basmala; chapter beginnings in red and introduced by bold and black abjad numerals in the main text; propositions numbered with red overlined abjad numerals in the margins; qāla/aqūlu mostly in red. Abjad numerals and Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals often in red with overlines. Mostly carefully drawn diagrams with red lines and black letters or vice versa; diagrams sometimes in the margins (e.g., 53r, 55v, 61v). Numerous tables with lines in red, sometimes sloppily drawn; some tables upside down (78v), incomplete (128v), or empty (128v, 129r). First four lines of f. 2v in a different naskh hand than the scribe’s, probably due to the later restoration of that page; one-and-a-half pages (with blank spaces for diagrams) crossed out due to the erroneous repetition of parts of chapters V.14–15 (67v–68v). Codex in acceptable condition; some folios missing, some in disorder in the last part of the codex; damage by insects, mostly in the fold; minor water or moisture damage in the margins throughout the codex; few pages loosening; some margins and parts of the fold restored. Dimensions: 19×12.5 cm; 24 lines per page. Vinaceous leather covers with frame and central, goldish-coloured mandorla; marbled doublures. Type II binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: unidentified notes with diagrams (1r); Ptolemaica (2v–138r). Blank: Iv, 79r, I^ar, II^av.

Bibl.: Mohamed Souissi, La lange des mathématiques en arabe, Tunis: Imprimerie officielle, 1968, p. 23 (listing the manuscript as ‘Tunis, 14555’); Julio Samsó, ‘A propos de quelques manuscrits astronomiques des bibliothèques de Tunis’, in Actas del II Coloquio Hispano-Tunecino de Estudios Históricos, Madrid: Instituto hispano-árabe de cultura, 1973, pp. 171–190, here p. 173 and n. 10; LAMTMª José Parra, ‘A List of Arabic Manuscripts of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī’, Suhayl 16–17 (2018–2019), pp. 251–322, p. 308 (no. 124, referred to as ‘Ṣādiqiyya, 1455’).

2v–⁠138r	\2v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \138r\ فلأقطع الطلام (كذا) حامدًا له على الآله (كذا) ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: none. — Index: preface, 2v–3r; Book I, 3r–18v and 136r; II, 19r–30r and 136r–v; III, 30v–41v; IV, 41v–54v; V, 54v–70r; VI, 70r–80v, 135r–v (incomplete); VII, 81r–85r, 137r–v (incomplete); VIII, 85r–94^bisr; IX, 94^bisr–110v; X, 111r–115r; XI, 115r–120v, 127r–129r (incomplete); XII, 121r–122r, 129v–132v (incomplete); XIII, 122r–126v, 133r–134v, 138r (incomplete). — Dated scribal colophon (damaged). Some marginal corrections by the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Frequent marginal annotations in the hand of the scribe or a very similar one, partially using siglum ‘2’, sometimes extending into the body text (e.g., 33r–v), and largely breaking off after chapter V.5 (56v).

2v–⁠138r

\2v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \138r\ فلأقطع الطلام (كذا) حامدًا له على الآله (كذا) ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.

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

. — Title: none. — Index: preface, 2v–3r; Book I, 3r–18v and 136r; II, 19r–30r and 136r–v; III, 30v–41v; IV, 41v–54v; V, 54v–70r; VI, 70r–80v, 135r–v (incomplete); VII, 81r–85r, 137r–v (incomplete); VIII, 85r–94^bisr; IX, 94^bisr–110v; X, 111r–115r; XI, 115r–120v, 127r–129r (incomplete); XII, 121r–122r, 129v–132v (incomplete); XIII, 122r–126v, 133r–134v, 138r (incomplete). — Dated scribal colophon (damaged). Some marginal corrections by the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Frequent marginal annotations in the hand of the scribe or a very similar one, partially using siglum ‘2’, sometimes extending into the body text (e.g., 33r–v), and largely breaking off after chapter V.5 (56v).