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Hyderabad, Oriental Manuscript Library and Research Institute, riyāḍī 87⁢⁢

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

9 Dhū l-qaʿda 1040/9 June 1631 (206r).

Or.:

copied by ʿAlī al-ʿAbbāsī ‘in the town of 〈Pa〉tnah’ (?) (206r).

Prov.:

Persian statement of purchase dated ‘14 〈Muḥarram〉 1218’ in Patna, accompanied by the ad date 7 May 1803 and an illegible rectangular seal with floral motifs (2r). A note in Latin script ‘Rustum Ru…’ (?), partially covered by a library stamp (2r). Various types of library stamps.

Cod.: paper, 206 ff. (foliated with Urdu forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil in the upper centre of rectos, with ff. 119–121 incorrectly numbered 121–119–120; catchwords). A single naskh hand; almost fully dotted ductus with frequent elongated bowls and some elongated ascenders, some vowel marks and hamzas. Basmala in large and bold thuluth with full vocalisation (2v). Book headings in red bold thuluth; chapter beginnings introduced by red abjad numerals, chapter titles sometimes rubricated; propositions mostly numbered with red abjad numerals in the margins, some with red overlines; qāla / aqūlu in red or overlined in red. Abjad numerals and Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in red and/or overlined in red. Carefully drawn diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or vice versa. Tables with red lines; table headings generally in large bold thuluth in red or black; an incomplete table (114v). An illuminated headpiece in gold and blue with floral motifs in various colours (2v); interlinear spaces on ff. 2v–3r additionally coloured in gold; text area surrounded by a golden frame and rule-borders in red and blue. Codex in acceptable condition; all folds reinforced by broad paper strips covering the entire inner margins; damage by insects throughout the codex, often repaired with tape, affecting the readability of the text body especially from f. 172r onwards; minor water or moisture damage in the margins; some margins restored by different types of paper. Dimensions: not given; 21 lines per page.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (2v–206r). Blank: 1v.

Bibl.: ʿUthmān ʿAlī-Khān Bahādur, Fihrist-i kutub-i ʿarabī, fārsī wa urdū makhzūna-yi Kutubkhāna-yi Āṣafiyya-yi Sarkār-i ʿĀlī, vol. I, Hyderabad: Akhtar-i Dakan, 1914 (1332 Hijra), pp. 802/3); OMLRI Accession Register Book, vol. I, p. 204 (no. 44); 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. 267 (no. 24).

2v–⁠206r	\2v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خيرا (كذا) ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \206r\ فلنختم الكتاب. وأقول: وإذ قد وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجا{ز مـ}ـا وعديه (كذا) فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له. على آلائة وصليا (كذا) على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبابه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . Title: Majisṭī taṣnīf Baṭlīmūs Miṣrī tarjama Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad Ṭūṣī (note on f. 2r dated 1218/1803). — Index: preface, 2v–3r; Book I, 3r–25v; II, 25v–43v; III, 43v–56r; IV, 56r–66r, 67r–74v; V, 66r–v, 75r–92v (incomplete); VI, 92v–109r; VII, 109r–126v; VIII, 126v–145r; IX, 145r–167r; X, 167r–172v; XI, 173r–184v; XII, 184v–193r; XIII, 193r–206r. — Dated scribal colophon. Some marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ, sometimes framed with blue colour in a triangular shape. Eight additional diagrams in the margins, in the same hand as the diagrams in the text body, mostly from al-Nīsābūrī’s Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) (5r, 8v, 9v, 10v, 26r and 85r, 86v).

2v–⁠206r

\2v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خيرا (كذا) ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \206r\ فلنختم الكتاب. وأقول: وإذ قد وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجا{ز مـ}ـا وعديه (كذا) فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له. على آلائة وصليا (كذا) على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبابه.

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

. Title: Majisṭī taṣnīf Baṭlīmūs Miṣrī tarjama Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad Ṭūṣī (note on f. 2r dated 1218/1803). — Index: preface, 2v–3r; Book I, 3r–25v; II, 25v–43v; III, 43v–56r; IV, 56r–66r, 67r–74v; V, 66r–v, 75r–92v (incomplete); VI, 92v–109r; VII, 109r–126v; VIII, 126v–145r; IX, 145r–167r; X, 167r–172v; XI, 173r–184v; XII, 184v–193r; XIII, 193r–206r. — Dated scribal colophon. Some marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ, sometimes framed with blue colour in a triangular shape. Eight additional diagrams in the margins, in the same hand as the diagrams in the text body, mostly from al-Nīsābūrī’s Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) (5r, 8v, 9v, 10v, 26r and 85r, 86v).