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Jaipur, Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum, 19⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

undated; 16^th c. (Bahura), c. 1500 (King).

Or.:

unknown; copied by Mullā Ḥaydar (note in Persian, 1r).

Prov.:

the aforementioned note in Persian by Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Muḥammad al-Jīlī, who additionally states that his son Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Yūsuf will inherit the manuscript, accompanied by a round seal dated 1067/1656-7 (1r; Bahura). An erased statement, partially covered up by a small slip of paper, including a basmala and leaving only the last part of a name … al-Dīn ʿAlī legible (1r). A note in Sanskrit about the date of accession by the rulers of Jaipur in the month Phalguna of the Saṃvat year 1782, corresponding to December 1726 (IIr; Bahura). Several further notes in Sanskrit (front cover, Ir, IIr, 1r). A stamp of the ‘Art Gallery of the City Palace Jaipur’ with the current shelfmark (Ir).

Cod.: paper, III+97+I^a ff. (foliated with Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals at the centre top of rectos; ff. 73–96 bound after f. 8, with f. 96 preceding ff. 94–95; catchwords). A single black nastaʿlīq hand; almost fully dotted ductus, some hamzas, few vowel marks, no shaddas. Book headings rubricated, headings of Books I and VIII missing; section beginnings in red (omitted on ff. 1v–8v) and mostly introduced by red abjad numerals with red overlines. Abjad numerals and Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals not highlighted. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points, sometimes vice versa; some diagrams in the margins and some diagrams lacking geometrical points (e.g., 18v, 44v). Tables with red lines, some incomplete (86r–87r, 95v). Codex illuminated; an ornamental headpiece mostly in blue and gold with floral motifs and lancets; goldish frame around the text area on all pages. Codex in acceptable condition; considerable damage by insects sometimes affecting the readability; few parts of pages restored; binding becoming loose. Dimensions: 21.9×12.1 cm; 35 lines per page. Pink mashru (cloth) covers with floral motifs and green doublures. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–97v). Blank: Iv, IIv, IIIv, and presumably I^ar–v.

Bibl.: Gopal Narayan Bahura, Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Maharaja of Jaipur Museum, Jaipur: Maharaja of Jaipur Museum, 1971, p. 74/75 (no. 21); David A. King, ‘A Handlist of the Arabic and Persian Astronomical Manuscripts in the Maharaja Mansingh II Library in Jaipur’, Journal for the History of Arabic Science 4 (1980), pp. 81–86, here p. 82; Parra, p. 272 (no. 44).

1v–⁠97v	\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \97v\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذا وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإيجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على الآية (كذا) ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبابه أجمعين. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (IIIr). — Index: preface, 1v; Book I, 1v–13r; II, 13r–23r; III, 23r–29r; IV, 29r–38r; V, 38r–46r; VI, 46r–54r; VII, 54r–59v; VIII, 59v–66r; IX, 66r–77r; X, 77r–79r; XI, 79r–87v; XII, 87v–91v; XIII, 91v–97v. — No authorial or scribal colophon. Very few marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Two unfinished diagram sketches in the margins of f. 2r encircled in gold.

1v–⁠97v

\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \97v\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذا وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإيجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على الآية (كذا) ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبابه أجمعين.

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

. — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (IIIr). — Index: preface, 1v; Book I, 1v–13r; II, 13r–23r; III, 23r–29r; IV, 29r–38r; V, 38r–46r; VI, 46r–54r; VII, 54r–59v; VIII, 59v–66r; IX, 66r–77r; X, 77r–79r; XI, 79r–87v; XII, 87v–91v; XIII, 91v–97v. — No authorial or scribal colophon. Very few marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Two unfinished diagram sketches in the margins of f. 2r encircled in gold.