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Patna, Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, HL 2036⁢⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Heavily damaged and incomplete single work: Arabic. Date:

finished on a Wednesday in Jumādā al-thāniya, year lost due to the restoration of the margin (129v); c. 900/1500 (Abdul Hamid, Fihrist); apparently 10^th/16^th c. (Abdul Hamid, Catalogue).

Or.:

unknown; copied by … … al-Khalīl al-Mashhadī (129v).

Prov.:

a short Persian poem by the scribe (li-kātibi-hi).

Cod.: paper, I+129 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals, with some irregularities; an earlier foliation starting with ‘29’ on f. 13; catchwords). A single nastaʿlīq hand in black; partially dotted ductus. Red used for book and chapter titles, abjad numerals, overlines, and for diagram and table lines. Codex in very bad condition; numerous leaves heavily damaged by insects, restorations with Japanese paper, all margins restored. Dimensions: c. 24×14 cm, written area: c. 17¾×7½ cm; 25 lines per page. Modern dark-blue covers half-bound with dark-red leather. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–129v). Blank: Ir–v.

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, pp. 37–38 (no. 2444); 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. 67).

1v–⁠129v	\1v\ {... ... ...} — \129v\ فلنختم الكتاب {... ...}ـضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام {... ...}ـع أوليائه، خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه {…}. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Kitāb 〈al-〉Majisṭī (1r). — Index: Parts of Book I and/or II missing. — Scribal colophon with the year lost; a short Persian poem by the scribe (129v). Marginal corrections and glosses.

1v–⁠129v

\1v\ {... ... ...} — \129v\ فلنختم الكتاب {... ...}ـضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام {... ...}ـع أوليائه، خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه {…}.

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

. — Title: Kitāb 〈al-〉Majisṭī (1r). — Index: Parts of Book I and/or II missing. — Scribal colophon with the year lost; a short Persian poem by the scribe (129v). Marginal corrections and glosses.