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Kolkata, National Library of India, Buhar Arabic 344⁢

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

undated; c. 12^th/18^th century (Hidāyat Ḥusain).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

an illegible oval seal (1r, 121v). Stamp of the ‘Imperial Library’ with crown and tail, dated ‘22. Dec. 〈19〉04’; oval stamp of the ‘Imperial Library’ (1r, 10v, 121v, 124r). Current shelfmark: ‘344’ (front pastedown); old shelfmark or accession number: ‘1461/284’ (1r). The Buhar Library, founded by Munshī Sayyid Ṣadr al-Dīn in 1189/1775 as part of the Jalāliyya Madrasa in modern-day Bohar in Bengal, was presented to the Government of India in 1904.

Cod.: paper, 124 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals; catchwords). A single clear naskh hand for the text; fully dotted ductus with hamzas and maddas, no shaddas, occasional tanwīns. Book headings in large, bold naskh, occasionally centred; chapter numbers in large, bold and overlined abjad numerals; book and chapter titles in red. Proposition numbers with book references in red in the margins. Abjad numbers in the text in red and overlined; geometrical points in the text in black and overlined. A different hand for (most of) the tables: naskh tending to nastaʿlīq. Diagrams mostly in the margins; numerous tables and a rosette (68r). Codex apparently in good condition; significant ink corrosion, but hardly any other major damage visible on the scans; lower outer edge of f. 8 restored with a piece of paper, possibly to add or replace the figures in the lower margin of f. 8r. Dimensions: c. 22¾×19 cm, written area: c. 19×12 cm; 25 lines per page. Modern leather binding (stamp ‘Preservatives leather applied on 1/9/78’ on front pastedown).

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–124r). F. 69 is a slip of paper with two diagrams and a small table related to planetary motions; between ff. 82 and 83 a piece of paper is inserted with eight small parts of a table glued on. Blank: none.

Bibl.: M. Hidāyat Ḥusain, Catalogue raisonné of the Būhār Library, Vol. II: Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Būhār Library, Calcutta: Imperial Library, 1923, pp. 379–380; 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. 265 (no. 20).

1v–⁠124r	\1v\ الحمد (كذا) لله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \124r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول: إذا وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإيجاز (كذا) ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه، خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه، والبررة من آله وأحبّائه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Majisṭī Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī (1r, 124v). — Alternative title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (front pastedown). — Index: preface: 1v–2r; I: 2r–15r; II: 15r–26r; III: 26r–34v; IV: 35r–46r; V: 46r–57r; VI: 57r–68v; VII: 68v–78v; VIII: 78v–90r; IX: 90r–100r; X: 100v–103r; XI: 103r–110v; XII: 110v–116r; XIII: 116r–124r. — No colophon. Only very few marginal corrections marked by siglum ṣ (4r–v). Several words and phrases in the preface, chapter I.1, and Book IV overlined and corrected in the margin with red ink, marked by siglum n, in the hand of the scribe or a very similar one. Extensive glosses in red in Book IV, sometimes starting between the lines of the body text; one of these is attributed to ‘Mawlānā Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd 〈al-Kāshī〉 (36v), many others start with qawlu-hu. Glosses in the first part of the star catalogue (Book VII) in the hand that copied the tables.

1v–⁠124r

\1v\ الحمد (كذا) لله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \124r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول: إذا وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإيجاز (كذا) ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه، خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه، والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.

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

. — Title: Majisṭī Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī (1r, 124v). — Alternative title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (front pastedown). — Index: preface: 1v–2r; I: 2r–15r; II: 15r–26r; III: 26r–34v; IV: 35r–46r; V: 46r–57r; VI: 57r–68v; VII: 68v–78v; VIII: 78v–90r; IX: 90r–100r; X: 100v–103r; XI: 103r–110v; XII: 110v–116r; XIII: 116r–124r. — No colophon. Only very few marginal corrections marked by siglum ṣ (4r–v). Several words and phrases in the preface, chapter I.1, and Book IV overlined and corrected in the margin with red ink, marked by siglum n, in the hand of the scribe or a very similar one. Extensive glosses in red in Book IV, sometimes starting between the lines of the body text; one of these is attributed to ‘Mawlānā Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd 〈al-Kāshī〉 (36v), many others start with qawlu-hu. Glosses in the first part of the star catalogue (Book VII) in the hand that copied the tables.