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Najaf, Muʾassasa Kāshif al-Ghiṭāʾ al-ʿāmma, 16917⁢⁢⁢

[Black-and-white microfilm scans of the textblock.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

the Ptolemaic work finished on Wednesday, 15 Dhū l-qaʿda 1313/28 April 1896 (118r); second work undated, but a different hand wrote the year ‘1312’ next to the colophon (174r).

Or.:

unknown. Ptolemaic work copied from an exemplar dated to midday of Friday, 27 Rajab 1027/20 July 1618 and copied in Mecca by Ḥasan b. Muḥammad known as ʿĀṣī (118r); the scribe finished transferring text and glosses from a manuscript of al-Birjandī’s commentary (khaṭṭ al-Birjandī) into the margins of the present manuscript on Tuesday, 18 Muḥarram 1314/30 June 1896 (118r). Second work copied by Hādī b. ʿAbbās, son of ʿAlī (174r).

Prov.:

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Cod.: paper, 174 ff. (unfoliated; paper slips inserted after ff. 44, 52, 58, and 60; catchwords in both works). Two different hands for the two works. First hand (Ptolemaic work, 1v–118r): riqāʿ characteristics, written with a thick nibbed pen; dotted ductus. Book and section titles overlined (rubrication difficult to discern on the black-and-white scans). Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals and various words overlined; geometrical points in the text with individual short overlines. Colours of diagrams indiscernable on the scans. Tables partially written vertically and in the margins; a rosette (63r). Second hand (118v–174r): riqāʿ, dotted ductus; book and section titles overlined; from f. 141v onwards tables unfilled and diagrams without lettering. Codex apparently in very good condition. Dimensions: 31×21.5 cm; 31 lines per page.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–118r); Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī, al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī ṣināʿat al-Majisṭī (118v–174r). Blank: presumably 1r and 174v; possible blank pages between the two works were not considered in the folio count.

Bibl.: Dalīl makhṭūṭāt Muʾassasat Kāshif al-Ghiṭāʾ al-ʿāmma, vol. VI, Beirut: Sharikat Ṣabʿ li-l-ṭabāʿa wa-l-tajlīd, 2017 (1439 A.H.), part 1, p. 85; Excel file Dalīl al-makhṭūṭāt provided on the website of the library (consulted on 26 March 2025).

1v–⁠118r	\1v\  \|\|عليه الوقت وساعد التوفيق والبخت ونبّهت صريحًا على ما هو خارج من أصل الكتاب — \118r\ فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: none. — Index: preface, 1v (beginning missing); Book I, 1v–12v; II, 12v–21v; III, 21v–31v; IV, 31v–41v; V, 41v–53r; VI, 53r–63v; VII, 63v–72v; VIII, 73r–82v; IX, 82v–94r; X, 94r–97v; XI, 98r–103r; XII, 103r–109v; XIII, 109v–118r. The text starts in the middle of f. 1v, approximately two-thirds into the preface, leaving open the space above it. — Scribal colophon; scribal colophon of the exemplar in smaller script. Marginal corrections. The margins are filled with text and glosses from al-Birjandī’s Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.44), with a separate colophon.

1v–⁠118r

\1v\  ||عليه الوقت وساعد التوفيق والبخت ونبّهت صريحًا على ما هو خارج من أصل الكتاب — \118r\ فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.

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

. — Title: none. — Index: preface, 1v (beginning missing); Book I, 1v–12v; II, 12v–21v; III, 21v–31v; IV, 31v–41v; V, 41v–53r; VI, 53r–63v; VII, 63v–72v; VIII, 73r–82v; IX, 82v–94r; X, 94r–97v; XI, 98r–103r; XII, 103r–109v; XIII, 109v–118r. The text starts in the middle of f. 1v, approximately two-thirds into the preface, leaving open the space above it. — Scribal colophon; scribal colophon of the exemplar in smaller script. Marginal corrections. The margins are filled with text and glosses from al-Birjandī’s Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.44), with a separate colophon.