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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Mashhad, Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 40698⁢

Single work and an appendix: Arabic.  Date:

copied on 17 Dhū l-ḥijja 1085/14 March 1675 (colophon, 123r).

Or.:

unknown; unknown copyist.

Prov.:

a loose piece of blue paper with notes containing ḥadīths in a nastaʿlīq hand and a small slip of white paper containing a note mentioning Naṣr Allāh b. Malik Nisāʾ as a former owner (both between ff. 79v and 80r). A cat-like animal in blue drawn on the back doublure.

Cod.: paper, I+123+Ia ff. (unfoliated; catchwords). A clear naskh hand; fully dotted ductus, frequent vowel marks, hamzas and shaddas. Headings of books in red thuluth; heading for Book VIII in black thuluth; beginnings of chapters in red, introduced by red overlined abjad numerals; propositions indicated by red overlined abjad numerals in the margins. Abjad numerals and Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in the main text overlined in black or red. Carefully drawn diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or vice versa. Numerous tables with red lines. Codex in good condition; ff. I, 1 and Ia repaired in the margins; some smudges and stains (e.g., 4r–6v); minor water or moisture damage in the upper margins (e.g., ff. 72–77, 90–96). Dimensions not provided; 22 lines per page (misṭara imprints visible on f. Iar–v). Heavily rubbed dark-brown leather covers decorated with a central mandorla and frame. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. —  Index: Ptolemaica (1v–122r); Ptolemaica (122r–123r); a set of twenty unfinished diagrams, obviously intended for a copy of C.1.18a (123v). Blank: Iv–1r, 80v (except for tabular frames), Iar–v, presumably Ir.

Bibl.: Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī online catalogue: https://opac.razavi.ir/simwebclt/.

1v–⁠122r

\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \122r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإتجاز (كذا) ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا للّه على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليآئه (كذا) خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.

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

. — Title: none. — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–15v; II, 15v–26r; III, 26r–35r; IV, 35r–45v; V, 45v–58r; VI, 58r–68v; VII, 68v–76v; VIII, 76v–86r; IX, 86r–99r; X, 99r–102r; XI, 102r–109r; XII, 109r–114r; XIII, 114r–122r. — No authorial or scribal colophon. Some marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Frequent marginal annotations in a fine nastaʿlīq hand, mostly indicated by siglum ‘12’.

122r–⁠123r

\122r\ [title] ا كوكب الرأس وب كوكب الرجل وفي المجسطي لأوّل سنة من ملك أنطونينس طول ا  و م وعرضه ز ك\122v\ يخرج الطول زائدًا على ما أخذه بطلميوس \123r\ بسبع وعشرين دقيقة والعرض زائدًا على ما أخذه بخمس وعشرين دقيقة تعرفنا أنّه قد تساهل فيه وعمل على التقريب دون التحقيق واللّه أعلم بالحقيقة.

= Fī Shakl al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (C.1.18c)

. — Title: Fī Tashakkul al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (122r). — This work starts immediately after the explicit of al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī. Dated scribal colophon (123r). Reserved space for missing figure (122r). Parts of the first line of f. 122v crossed out.