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Tehran, Kitābkhāna wa-mūza-yi millī-yi Malik, 6213⁢⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Collection of two works: Arabic. Date:

first work copied in 1266/1849-50 (calligraphic note, p. 85), Ptolemaic work undated.

Or.:

first work copied in Isfahan by ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdallāh (p. 85); origin and copyist of the Ptolemaic work unknown.

Prov.:

a calligraphic statement by ʿAlī b. Abd al-Rasūl identifying the first work, dated 1353/1934-5 (p. III). Statement of purchase by the Malik Library at an auction in 1332/1953; the previous owner was the well-known Persian scholar Dāʿī al-Islām (1878–1951).

Cod.: paper, III+277+II^a pp. (paginated with odd Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil on versos up to p. 265; a slip with two planetary diagrams inserted on the otherwise empty p. 86; catchwords only in the Ptolemaic work). Two nastaʿlīq hands; dotted ducti. Book and chapter titles in red in the first work. In the Ptolemaic work all book and chapter titles were omitted; diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or in black without geometrical points; tables with red lines, mostly incomplete; a rosette (p. 250). Codex in very good condition; some damage on the edges. Dimensions: 26×15.6 cm; 23 and 21 lines per page. Blackish covers with frames, marbled paper doublures. Type III binding.

Cont.: spherical trigonometry, astronomy. — Index: Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Kitāb Shakl al-qaṭṭāʾ (pp. 1–85); Muḥammad ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Ismāʿīl Qāʾinī Ḥusaynī, a short comment on a quotation from al-Khafrī’s commentary on al-Ṭūsī’s Tadhkira (p. 88); al-Ṭūsī, 〈Taḥrīr〉 Kitāb Ibsiqlāws fī l-maṭālīʿ (pp. 89–90); Ptolemaica (pp. 93–277). Blank: pp. I–II, 91–92.

Bibl.: Īraj Afshār and Muḥammad Taqī Dānishpazhūh, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Millī-yi Malik wābasta bih Āstān-i Quds, Vol. IX: Majmūʿhā wa-junghā, Tehran: Astān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 1992 (1371 H.S.), pp. 271–272 (no. 1585); FankhāMuṣṭafā Dirāyatī, Fihristgān-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Īrān (Fankhā), 45 vols, Tehran: Library, Museum and Documentation Center of The Islamic Consultative Assembly, 2011–13 1390, vol. VII, p. 216 (no. 61) and vol. XXVI, p. 348 (no. 20); 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, pp. 296–297 (no. 103).

pp. 93–⁠277	\p. 93\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \p. 258\ وثالثها لعروضها ورابعها لأقدارها في العظم وهذه جداول كواكب النصف الشمالي. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) , incomplete. — Title: none. — Index: preface, p. 93; Book I, pp. 93–124; II, pp. 124–151; III, pp. 151–170; IV, pp. 170–198; V, pp. 198–225; VI, pp. 225–251; VII, pp. 251–258. Chapter VII.5 ends on p. 258 and is followed by twenty pages with empty tabular frames for the star catalogue in which only some coordinates were filled in. — No colophon. No corrections; some marginal glosses written in very narrow columns.

pp. 93–⁠277

\p. 93\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \p. 258\ وثالثها لعروضها ورابعها لأقدارها في العظم وهذه جداول كواكب النصف الشمالي.

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

, incomplete. — Title: none. — Index: preface, p. 93; Book I, pp. 93–124; II, pp. 124–151; III, pp. 151–170; IV, pp. 170–198; V, pp. 198–225; VI, pp. 225–251; VII, pp. 251–258. Chapter VII.5 ends on p. 258 and is followed by twenty pages with empty tabular frames for the star catalogue in which only some coordinates were filled in. — No colophon. No corrections; some marginal glosses written in very narrow columns.