`_`	(the underscore) is the placeholder for exactly one character.
`%`	(the percent sign) is the placeholder for no, one or more than one character.
`%%`	(two percent signs) is the placeholder for no, one or more than one character, but not for blank space (so that a search ends at word boundaries).

Patna, Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, HL 3391⁢⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Incomplete single work: Arabic. Date:

undated; 10^th/16^th c. (Shīr).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

a coloured mandorla with pendants and illegible inscription (1r). A list of sources used for marginal notes (1r). A rectangular stamp ‘Bahādur’ with floral motifs, dated 1229/1813-14 (1r). Gift of Shifāʾ al-Mulk Ḥakīm Sayyid Maẓāhir Aḥmad to the Khuda Bakhsh Library; violet oval tughra-like seal ‘Sayyid Māẓāhir Aḥmad’ (1r). Oval library stamp (1v, 212v); ‘Prog. No. 6461’, date of accession 7-9-1955 (rectangular library stamp on front flyleaf, stamps on ff. 1r and 63v).

Cod.: paper, 63 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil in the upper left area of rectos; a foliation in black Hindu-Arabic numerals, exceeding the one in pencil by six folios; partially crossed out and occasionally repeated in red; catchwords, but mostly invisible due to the damage to the manuscript). A single nastaʿlīq hand in black; undotted ductus. Red used for book and chapter titles, abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals, and overlines. Proposition numbers in red abjad, usually found in the margins, here inserted in the main text. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points, occasionally the other way around. Tables with red lines. Golden frame with blue rule-border around the text area and most of the tables. Illuminated headpiece in blue and gold (1v). Codex in very bad condition; all inner margins restored; major damage due to insects, but mostly in the margins. Dimensions: 20×12 cm, written area: c. 14×6 cm; 21 lines per page. Modern half-bound blue and red covers. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–63v). Blank: none.

Bibl.: S. A. Shīr, Fihrist-i makhṭūṭāt-i ʿarabī-yi Khudā Bakhsh Oriyanṭal Pablik Lāʾibrīrī, Paṭna, musammā bi-Miftāḥ al-kunūz, vol. III, Patna: Khuda Bakhsh Library, 1965, p. 180 (no. 3710).

1v–⁠63v	\1v\ أحمد الله مبدأ }كلّ{ مبدأ ❊ وغاية كلّ غاية ❊ ومفيض كلّ خير ❊ ووليّ كلّ {هداية} ❊ وأرجو حسن توفيقه في {كـ}ـلّ {بداية} ونهاية ❊ — \63v\ وصارت المأخوذة منها لتأريخ يزدجرد والأيّام من فروردين وذلك ما أردناه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Tahrīr al-Majisṭī (front flyleaf). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–12r; II, 12r–25r; III, 25r–35v; IV, 35v–48v; V, 48v–62v; VI, 62v–63v (only the first part). The scribe stopped copying at the end of the text part of section VI.2, just before the tables of conjunctions and oppositions. — No authorial or scribal colophon. Occasional marginal corrections. Interlinear and marginal glosses mainly on the first three folios, some diagrams in the margins (e.g., 44r, 46v).

1v–⁠63v

\1v\ أحمد الله مبدأ }كلّ{ مبدأ ❊ وغاية كلّ غاية ❊ ومفيض كلّ خير ❊ ووليّ كلّ {هداية} ❊ وأرجو حسن توفيقه في {كـ}ـلّ {بداية} ونهاية ❊ — \63v\ وصارت المأخوذة منها لتأريخ يزدجرد والأيّام من فروردين وذلك ما أردناه.

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

. — Title: Tahrīr al-Majisṭī (front flyleaf). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–12r; II, 12r–25r; III, 25r–35v; IV, 35v–48v; V, 48v–62v; VI, 62v–63v (only the first part). The scribe stopped copying at the end of the text part of section VI.2, just before the tables of conjunctions and oppositions. — No authorial or scribal colophon. Occasional marginal corrections. Interlinear and marginal glosses mainly on the first three folios, some diagrams in the margins (e.g., 44r, 46v).