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Patna, Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, HL 2037⁢⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

undated; c. 1200/1800 (Abdul Hamid, Fihrist); apparently 12^th/18^th c. (Abdul Hamid, Catalogue).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

‘Prog. No. 2214 (Old Series)’, date of accession 18-6-1955 (rectangular library stamp on flyleaves); oval library stamp (1r, 212v).

Cod.: paper, 212 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil in the top margin of rectos; catchwords). A single nastaʿlīq hand in black; fully dotted ductus. Red used for book and chapter titles, abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals, and overlines; red separators in the first three lines of the preface in the shape of a double abjad zero (here represented by ❊). Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points, occasionally the other way around. Tables in red and black; a rosette (117v). Codex in acceptable condition; all inner margins restored; significant damage due to insects, partially restored. Dimensions: c. 26¼×19 cm, written area: c. 19×9 cm; 18 lines per page. Modern purple covers, half-bound with dark-red leather. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–212r). Blank: none.

Bibl.: Abdul Hamid, Fihrist-i dastī-i kutub-i qalamī-i lābrirī mawqūfa Khān Bahādur Khudābakhsh Khan-i marḥūm, musammā bah Miftāḥ al-kunūz al-khafiyya, vol. I, Patna: Oriental Public Library, 1918, p. 234; Maulavi Abdul Hamid, Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in the Oriental Public Library at Bankipore, Vol. XXII: Arabic MSS. Science, Patna: Government Printing Bihar, 1937, p. 38 (no. 2445); 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. 286 (no. 68).

1v–⁠212r	\1v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ ❊ وغاية كلّ غاية ❊ ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية ❊ وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية ❊ — \212r\ فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا 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–29r; II, 29r–47v; III, 47v–63v; IV, 63v–81v; V, 81v–102r; VI, 102r–118r; VII, 118r–132r; VIII, 132r–147r; IX, 147r–166v; X, 166v–173r; 173–186v; XII, 186v–196v; XIII, 196v–212r. — No authorial or scribal colophon. No corrections. Extensive glosses all through the manuscript marked with Niẓām, nẓ, n, ʿl, ʿbl, and Ḥusayn in red. Annotations with a variety of reference marks in red.

1v–⁠212r

\1v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ ❊ وغاية كلّ غاية ❊ ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية ❊ وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية ❊ — \212r\ فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا 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–29r; II, 29r–47v; III, 47v–63v; IV, 63v–81v; V, 81v–102r; VI, 102r–118r; VII, 118r–132r; VIII, 132r–147r; IX, 147r–166v; X, 166v–173r; 173–186v; XII, 186v–196v; XIII, 196v–212r. — No authorial or scribal colophon. No corrections. Extensive glosses all through the manuscript marked with Niẓām, nẓ, n, ʿl, ʿbl, and Ḥusayn in red. Annotations with a variety of reference marks in red.