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Aligarh, Maulana Azad Library, Suleman 165/25⁢⁢

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

finished on Saturday, 9 Muḥarram 1364/9 July 1927 (p. 185).

Or.:

copied by Muḥammad Isrāʾīl al-Fishāwarī (i.e., from Peshawar) on the order (bi-amr) of Aghā l-Fāḍil Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Jalīl al-Āyawī (?) at Shāhjahānābād (Delhi) from an exemplar copied on Wednesday, 22 Ramaḍān 663/8 July 1265 for Maḥmūd al-Khaṭīb at the madrasa of Maragha, which in turn was copied from an exemplar dated 5 Shawwāl 644/13 February 1247, i.e., the autograph (p. 185). This manuscript is not a direct copy of the older MS \msshelfmark{0#AH 164/24), which likewise goes back to the copy made for Maḥmūd al-Khatīb, since the latter lacks the date of the exemplar and some diagrams and tables.

Prov.:

oval stamps of the ‘Lytton Library Muslim University Aligarh’, the former name of the library (pp. 41, 134); modern stamps ‘University Library Aligarh Sulaiman Collection’ (pp. 1, 2, 44, 76, 132).

Cod.: paper, II+185+I^a pp. (paginated with Urdu forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in the center of the upper margins; catchwords). A single black nastaʿlīq hand; almost fully dotted ductus, some maddas, no vowels, hamzas or shaddas. Book headings rubricated; headings of Books IV, VII, IX–XIII repeated in the margins, title of Book VIII erroneously indicated in the margin as Book VII; sections introduced by overlined bold abjad numerals, mostly in red; aqulu / qāla in red; red ink sometimes faded. Abjad numerals overlined; Urdu forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals sometimes overlined. Nearly all diagrams in the margins, sometimes sloppily drawn; diagram lines and geometrical points both in black. Tables with black lines; a small empty table and an unfinished rosette in the margin of p. 93. Codex in good condition; only very few stains and smudges, some water damage (esp. pp. 93–94). Dimensions: not given; 27 lines per page. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: table of contents (p. 1); Ptolemaica (pp. 2–185). Blank: p. II and presumably pp. I and I^a.

Bibl.: 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. 257 (no. 6). Maulana Azad Library, Handlist of Arabic manuscripts in the Suleman collection (downloaded on 26 September 2023), p. 4.

pp. 2–⁠185	\p. 2\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير وولّي كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \p. 185\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبردة متين (كذا) آله وأحبابه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Kitāb al-Majisṭī (scribal colophon, p. 185). — Index: preface, p. 2; Book I, pp. 2–22; II, pp. 22–40; III, pp. 40–50; IV, pp. 50–65; V, pp. 65–80; VI, pp. 80–93; VII, pp. 93–115; VIII, pp. 115–130; IX, pp. 130–149; X, pp. 149–153; XI, pp. 153–165; XII, pp. 165–174; XIII, pp. 174–185. — Scribal colophon and colophon of the exemplar. Very few marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ.

pp. 2–⁠185

\p. 2\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير وولّي كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \p. 185\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبردة متين (كذا) آله وأحبابه.

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

. — Title: Kitāb al-Majisṭī (scribal colophon, p. 185). — Index: preface, p. 2; Book I, pp. 2–22; II, pp. 22–40; III, pp. 40–50; IV, pp. 50–65; V, pp. 65–80; VI, pp. 80–93; VII, pp. 93–115; VIII, pp. 115–130; IX, pp. 130–149; X, pp. 149–153; XI, pp. 153–165; XII, pp. 165–174; XIII, pp. 174–185. — Scribal colophon and colophon of the exemplar. Very few marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ.