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Kuwait City, Maktabat Jābir al-Aḥmad al-Markaziyya, 838⁢⁢

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

undated; 13^th/19^th c. (Fihris).

Or.:

unknown, probably the Indian subcontinent because of the Urdu pagination and annotations in Persian; unknown scribe, the name ʿAbd Allāh is mentioned on the title page (3r) as having copied, redacted or authored (ḥarrara-hu) the work.

Prov.:

former shelfmark: ‘no. 328’ (3r). Library stamp with the current shelfmark (3r).

Cod.: paper, 171 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil; paginated with Urdu forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in the hand of the scribe at the centre top of every page, ranging from ‘3’ (3r) to ‘335’ (171r), skipping two pages after ‘14’ and entirely crossed out in pencil; catchwords). A black taʿlīq hand; almost fully dotted ductus, frequent hamzas, some vowel marks and few shaddas; final kāf is indicated by a second smaller kāf on top and hāʾ with a stroke underneath. Headings of Books I–III in black, of Books IV–XIII in red; section beginnings in red and mostly introduced by black or red abjad numerals with overlines; qāla / aqūlu in red and some further use of red overlines in the first part of the codex. Abjad and Urdu forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals mainly overlined, initially in red. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points, occasionally vice versa. Tables with red lines; some references by the scribe in the main text to the Urdu page numbers of tables (e.g., 11r, 32r, 48r); fold-in on f. 28 for a very wide table. Red and black rule-borders around the text area. Codex in good condition; few ink stains and smudges; damaged binding between the front doublure and f. 1r; minor damage to the paper surface (e.g., ff. 34, 97). Dimensions: 31.3×23.6 cm; 18–21 lines per page. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: librarian’s or scholar’s notes or excerpt from a catalogue (1r–v); title page (3r); Ptolemaica (3v–171r). Blank: 2r–v, 10r (except for red and black rule-borders), and presumably 171v.

Bibl.: Jāmiʿa al-Kuwayt, Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-aṣliyya, 3 vols, Kuwait City: Kuwait University, 2003, vol. II, p. 1432; Parra, p. 272 (no. 45).

3v–⁠171r	\3v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجوا حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \171r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول إذ وفّقني اللّه تعالى لإتمام ما قصدته وإيجاز (كذا) ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبابه. [diagram] = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Taḥrīr Majisṭī li-l-ʿallāma Baṭlamyūs ḥarrara-hu ʿAbd Allāh (title page in the hand of the scribe, 3r). — Index: preface, 3v–4r; Book I, 4r–21v; II, 21v–34r; III, 34r–45r; IV, 45r–57v; V, 58r–74r; VI, 74r–87r; VII, 87r–105v; VIII, 105v–124v; IX, 125r–142r; X, 142r–146r; XI, 146r–156r; XII, 156r–162r; XIII, 162r–171r. — Undated scribal colophon . Few marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe; few Persian annotations in the hand of the scribe with reference mark ‘12’; a very long fāʾida attributed to Khayr Allāh Khān (who wrote MS Rampur, Raza, Arabic 3694 and translated the Taḥrīr into Persian), filling the space and margins next to the table on f. 63v and commenting on some tabular values in detail. Additional diagrams, including a planetary one following the colophon (171r), all in the hand of the scribe and partially altered; similar diagrams are also present in MS Patna, Khuda Bakhsh, 2038.

3v–⁠171r

\3v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجوا حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \171r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول إذ وفّقني اللّه تعالى لإتمام ما قصدته وإيجاز (كذا) ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبابه. [diagram]

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

. — Title: Taḥrīr Majisṭī li-l-ʿallāma Baṭlamyūs ḥarrara-hu ʿAbd Allāh (title page in the hand of the scribe, 3r). — Index: preface, 3v–4r; Book I, 4r–21v; II, 21v–34r; III, 34r–45r; IV, 45r–57v; V, 58r–74r; VI, 74r–87r; VII, 87r–105v; VIII, 105v–124v; IX, 125r–142r; X, 142r–146r; XI, 146r–156r; XII, 156r–162r; XIII, 162r–171r. — Undated scribal colophon . Few marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe; few Persian annotations in the hand of the scribe with reference mark ‘12’; a very long fāʾida attributed to Khayr Allāh Khān (who wrote MS Rampur, Raza, Arabic 3694 and translated the Taḥrīr into Persian), filling the space and margins next to the table on f. 63v and commenting on some tabular values in detail. Additional diagrams, including a planetary one following the colophon (171r), all in the hand of the scribe and partially altered; similar diagrams are also present in MS Patna, Khuda Bakhsh, 2038.