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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\ فلنختم الكتاب أقول وإذ قد وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته 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.1.42), with a separate colophon.

1v–⁠118r

\1v\  ||عليه الوقت وساعد التوفيق والبخت ونبّهت صريحًا على ما هو خارج من أصل الكتاب — \118r\ فلنختم الكتاب أقول وإذ قد وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته 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.1.42), with a separate colophon.