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Riyadh, Jāmiʿat al-Imām Muḥammad Ibn-Saʿūd al-islāmiyya, 1081⁢⁢

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Single work with two appendices: Arabic. Date:

undated; apparently quite late.

Or.:

unknown, unknown scribe; main work copied directly or indirectly from an exemplar finished on Wednesday, 22 Ramaḍān 663/8 July 1265 for Maḥmūd al-Khaṭīb in Maragha and in turn copied from an exemplar dated 5 Shawwal 644/13 February 1247, i.e., the autograph (124r).

Prov.:

a round library stamp (129v) and a library stamp in the shape of a book (1r).

Cod.: paper, 129 ff. (foliated with stamped Hindu-Arabic numerals; additionally paginated with Hindu-Arabic numerals from ‘1’ to ‘258’ at the centre top of every page; quire marks consisting of the letter kāf (for kurrāsa) and a Hindu-Arabic numeral from ‘1’ to ‘13’ (skipping ‘4’, ‘8’ and ‘9’) in the upper left area of every eleventh recto; catchwords). A single clear naskh hand; almost fully dotted ductus, some vowel marks, hamzas and shaddas. Book headings rubricated; section beginnings in red and introduced by bold black abjad numerals with red overlines; propositions numbered with red overlined abjad numerals in the body text. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals mostly in red with overlines. Carefully drawn diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points, sometimes vice versa. Tables with red lines. Codex in very good condition; few stains, minor water or moisture damage in the upper outer margins. Dimensions: not given; 29 lines per page (misṭara imprints). Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–124r); Ptolemaica (125v–128r); Ptolemaica (128v–129v). Blank: 124v–125r.

Bibl.: —

1v–⁠124r	\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \124r\ 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: Kitāb Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (1r, followed by an honorific form of al-Ṭūsī’s name). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–16r; II, 16r–28r; III, 28r–36r; IV, 36r–47r; V, 47r–58v; VI, 58v–68v; VII, 68v–78v; VIII, 78v–89v; IX, 89v–102r; X, 102r–105r; XI, 105r–112r; XII, 112r–116v; XIII, 117r–124r. — Colophon of the base manuscript; no scribal colophon. Few marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe mostly indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Some marginal annotations in the hand of the scribe mostly headed by the word ḥāshiya; four additional or corrected diagrams in the margins in the hand of the scribe (47r, 104r, 112r, 113r).
125v–⁠128r	\125v\ نريد أن نثبت اختلاف وقوع الخطوط في الأشكال التي يعرف منها أوضاع مراكز أفلاك عطارد في مسيراتها — \125v\ وتكون الأشكال بحسب مسير المركز الحركة الوسطى مبتدئاً من الأوج إلى التوالي هكذا. [tables] \127r\ [diagrams] = Risāla fī Ikhtilāfāt wuqūʿ al-khuṭūṭ fī l-ashkāl (C.1.18a) . — Title: none. — No marginal corrections or annotations.
128v–⁠129v	\128v\ [title] ليكن ا ب ج د الحامل على مركز ز وقطر ا ب وح عليه نقطة خارجة عن المركز — \129v\ فقد تبيّن بالاستقراء ولم يلح لي طريق برهانيّ بعد إلى ذلك واللّه الموفّق بمنّه. = Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt (C.1.18b) . — Title: Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāf alladhī yaḥduthu bi-sabab al-khurūj ʿan al-markaz (128v). — No colophon. Three short collational annotations in the hand of the scribe.