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Hyderabad, Oriental Manuscript Library and Research Institute, riyāḍī 405⁢⁢⁢

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Collection of 20 works and some short notes: Arabic. Date:

most of the works are dated, with dates in the months Jumādā al-thāniya to Dhū l-ḥijja 709/November 1309–May 1310 (67v, 76v, 88r, 90r, 122v, 125r, 131r, 139r, 146v, 152v, 154r, 158v, 162r, 165r, 170v, 209r, 243v); the Ptolemaic work lacks a colophon but was mostly written by the same hand.

Or.:

Tabriz; copied by Maqbūl b. Aṣīl al-Rūmī al-Qīrshahrī (67v, 122v, 125r, 139r, 146v, 170v, 209r, 243v), mostly from an exemplar in the hand of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī copied from Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s autograph and collated against it (67v, 122r–v, 209r, 243v, 244r). In many cases also the dates of completion by the author are given, mostly in 651/1253-4 (88r, 90r, 131r) and 653/1255-6 (139r, 146v, 152v, 154r, 158v, 162r, 165r, 170v); in one case the authorial colophon is reproduced with date 21 Shaʿbān 663/8 June 1265 (122r).

Prov.:

seal of Muḥammad Rashīd al-Dīn Khān dated 1216/1801-2 (1r). Round stamp ‘Hyderabad State Library’ (1r, 131r, 209v, 210r, 276v). Accession no. 19313 (library slip, front pastedown).

Cod.: paper, I+277+I^a ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil; partial pagination in pencil in the top margin, separate foliation of the Ptolemaic work; unnumbered slips of paper inserted after ff. 3, 51, 83 and 136, small slips with only a diagram inserted after ff. 55 and 129; quire numbers with overlined Hindu-Arabic numerals in black or red on every tenth recto; catchwords). A clear main hand in black naskh, partially dotted ductus; the treatise on ff. 244v–248v by a smaller, less regular naskh hand; ff. 17–19 and ff. 269–275 in the Ptolemaic work by a nastaʿlīq hand. Book and section titles in enlarged bold black and red; section and proposition numbers in overlined red in the margins. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals in red and overlined; geometrical points in the text overlined in black. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or the other way around. Tables with red lines. Codex in acceptable condition; numerous restorations, especially in the folds, some in the margins; ink corrosion on ff. 244–248. Dimensions: not given; 33 lines per page (27 on the pages written in nastaʿlīq).

Cont.: astronomy, mathematics, and optics. Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s recensions of the Elements and the Almagest, together with the ‘Middle Books’ (al-Mutawassiṭāt), his collection of revised treatises to be studied between the two major works. — Index: Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, 〈Taḥrīr〉 Kitāb Uṣūl al-handasiyya wa-l-ḥisāb 〈li-Uqlīdis〉 (1r–67v); anonymous, al-Qawl fī Iqāmat al-burhān ʿalā l-ḥikm al-madhkūr fī l-shakl al-khāmis ʿashar min al-maqāla al-thāniya ʿashr min hadhā l-kitāb (67v–68r); a note on an addition to Book XV of the Elements found in a different manuscript (68v); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb al-Muʿṭayāt li-Uqlīdis (69r–76v); al-Ṭūsī, 〈Taḥrīr〉 Kitāb al-Ukar li-Thāwdhūsiyūs (77r–88r); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb al-Kura al-mutaḥarrika li-Ūṭūlūqus (88v–90r); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb Mānālāwus fī l-ashkāl al-kuriyya (90v–122v); anonymous, Fī Tartīb ashkāl Kitāb Mānālāwus (122v); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb al-Masākin li-Thāwdūsiyūs (123r–125r); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Manāẓir li-Uqlīdis (125v–131r); al-Ṭūsī, 〈Taḥrīr〉 Kitāb Ẓāhirāt al-falak li-Uqlīdis (131v–139r); al-Ṭūsī, 〈Taḥrīr〉 Kitāb Thāwdūsiyūs fī l-ayyām wa l-layālī (139v–146v); al-Ṭūsī, Kitāb Awṭūlūqūs fī l-ṭulūʿ wa l-ghurūb (147r–153r); al-Ṭūsī, 〈Taḥrīr〉 Kitāb Ībsiqlāws fī l-maṭālīʿ (153v–154r); Kitāb Arisṭarchas fī jirmay al-nayyirayn wa-buʿday-himā (154v–158v); al-Ṭūsī (?), Kataba ʿalā risāla li-Ibn al-Haytham fī tarbīʿ al-dāʾira (158v); al-Ṭūsī, Tāḥrīr Kitāb Maʾkhūdhāt Arshimīdis (159r–162r); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb al-Mafrūḍāt li-Thābit b.Qurra al-Ḥarrānī al-Ṣābiʾ (162v–165r); al-Ṭūsī, 〈Taḥrīr〉 Kitāb Maʿrifat masāḥat al-ashkāl al-basīṭa wa-l-kuriyya li-Banī Mūsā (165v–170v); anonymous, Burhān ākhar ʿalā l-shakl al-sābiʿ min Kitāb Banī Musā (170v); Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, al-Risāla al-shāfiyya ʿan shakk fī l-khuṭūṭ al-mutawāziyya or Sharḥ al-Muṣādarāt, including the letter to the author by ʿAlam al-Dīn Qayṣar ibn Abī l-Qāsim al-Ḥanafī (171r–179r); Thābit b. Qurra (redacted by al-Ṭūsī), Kitāb al-Kura wa-l-usṭūwāna li-Arshimīdis (179v–209r); al-Ṭūsī, Kitāb Shakl al-qaṭṭāʿ (209v–243v); Min maqāla li-Thābit b. Qurra fī l-shakl al-qaṭṭāʿ wa-l-nisba al-muʾallafa (244r); Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Ashkāl al-taʾsīs (244v–248v); Ptolemaica (249v–277v); table of contents (I^av, by a later hand). Blank: 209v–210r, 249r, I^ar.

Bibl.: OMLRI Accession Register Book, vol. I, p. 211 (no. 212); 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. 25). — ISMI: https://ismi.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/codex/6117.

249v–⁠277v	\249v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \276r\ أمّا الجدول الأوّل فللسنين المجموعة والثاني للمبسوطة والساعات والثالث للشهور والأيّام وهي هذه. \276v\ [tables] = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) , incomplete. — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (249r). — Alternative title: al-Majisṭī (I^av). — Index: preface, 249v; Book I, 249v–259v; II, 259v–268r; III, 268r–274v; IV, 274v–277v. The text breaks off after the lunar mean motion tables in section IV.4. — No authorial or scribal colophon. Marginal corrections. Frequent glosses, mostly by the scribe, often labelled hāshiya, many of which are usually attributed to al-Ṭūsī himself; some user notes.

249v–⁠277v

\249v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \276r\ أمّا الجدول الأوّل فللسنين المجموعة والثاني للمبسوطة والساعات والثالث للشهور والأيّام وهي هذه. \276v\ [tables]

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

, incomplete. — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (249r). — Alternative title: al-Majisṭī (I^av). — Index: preface, 249v; Book I, 249v–259v; II, 259v–268r; III, 268r–274v; IV, 274v–277v. The text breaks off after the lunar mean motion tables in section IV.4. — No authorial or scribal colophon. Marginal corrections. Frequent glosses, mostly by the scribe, often labelled hāshiya, many of which are usually attributed to al-Ṭūsī himself; some user notes.