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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\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته 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 with sigla 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\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته 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 with sigla Niẓām, nẓ, n, ʿl, ʿbl, and Ḥusayn in red. Annotations with a variety of reference marks in red.