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Patna, Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, HL 3477⁢⁢⁢

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

undated; 11^th/17^th c. (Shīr).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe. Copied from a manuscript written in the year 768/1366-7, which in turn was copied from a codex finished by al-Imām al-Kabīr al-Fāḍil al-Walad Shams al-Milla wa-l-Dīn Sayyid al-ʿUlamāʾ wa-l-Aʾimma ʿAbd al-Kāfī on 24 Jumādā l-ūlā 661/5 April 1263, whose exemplar was the ‘autograph and draft’ by al-Ṭūsī (aṣl al-muṣannif wa-dustūru-hu) dated 15 Rabīʿ al-awwal 644/31 July 1246, different from the date 5 Shawwāl 644/13 February 1247 more commonly given for the autograph (116v).

Prov.:

a faded rectangular seal (1r). Gift of Shifāʾ al-Mulk Ḥakīm Sayyid Maẓāhir Aḥmad to the Khuda Bakhsh Library (stamp on ff. Ir and IIr, two copies of his oval seal on f. IIr). Several library stamps, one with no. ‘8861’ and date ‘29.3.92’ (Ir).

Cod.: paper, II+116 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil in the upper left area of rectos; another foliation with pencil reaching only ‘111’; catchwords). A single neat nastaʿlīq hand; fully dotted ductus. Book and chapter titles in red; section numbers repeated in the margins in black abjad. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals and geometrical points in the text in red, sometimes overlined; some significant words overlined in red. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or the other way around. Tables with red lines; a rosette (63v). Codex in very bad condition; extensive damage by insects throughout, often hindering the reading; water damage at the bottom in the first half of the codex; frequent restorations with Japanese paper; all inner margins restored. Dimensions: 30×19.5 cm, written area: 24×12.5 cm; 25 lines per page. Modern blue covers half-bound with dark-red leather. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: a fragment from the Kashkūl by Shaykh Bahāʾī (IIv, IIr); Ptolemaica (1v–116v). Blank: Iv, 24r.

Bibl.: S. A. Shīr, Fihrist-i makhṭūṭāt-i ʿarabī-yi Khudā Bakhsh Oriyanṭal Pablik Lāʾibrīrī, Paṭna, musammā bi-Miftāḥ al-kunūz, vol. III, Patna: Khuda Bakhsh Library, 1965, p. 180 (no. 3711).

1v–⁠116v	\1v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفـ{ـيقـ}ـه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \116v\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذا وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته ولأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على الآلائه (كذا) ومصلّيًا على أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Taḥrīr Majisṭī (Ir). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–16r; II, 16r–28r; III, 28r–36r; IV, 36r–45v; V, 45v–54v; VI, 54v–63v; VII, 63v–75r; VIII, 75r–86r; IX, 86r–98r; X, 98r–100v; XI, 100v–106v; XII, 106v–110r; XIII, 110r–116v. — Scribal colophon mentioning the dates of the exemplar and of the autograph from which the exemplar was copied. Marginal corrections. Extensive glosses to Books I to III with various sigla, e.g., Qāʾinī, Niẓām, ʿl, nẓ, n, ʿbl, and ʿbh.

1v–⁠116v

\1v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفـ{ـيقـ}ـه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \116v\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذا وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته ولأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على الآلائه (كذا) ومصلّيًا على أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.

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

. — Title: Taḥrīr Majisṭī (Ir). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–16r; II, 16r–28r; III, 28r–36r; IV, 36r–45v; V, 45v–54v; VI, 54v–63v; VII, 63v–75r; VIII, 75r–86r; IX, 86r–98r; X, 98r–100v; XI, 100v–106v; XII, 106v–110r; XIII, 110r–116v. — Scribal colophon mentioning the dates of the exemplar and of the autograph from which the exemplar was copied. Marginal corrections. Extensive glosses to Books I to III with various sigla, e.g., Qāʾinī, Niẓām, ʿl, nẓ, n, ʿbl, and ʿbh.