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Hyderabad, Salar Jung Museum, riyāḍī 8⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of ff 1r–38r and 166v–193v.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

undated; late 11^th/17^th c. (Ashraf).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

a statement covered by Japanese paper mentioning a certain Shams al-Dīn Ḥusayn (1r). Several statements and seals hardly legible due to restorations (1r). Library stamps and notes, including restoration (tanqīḥ) stamps with the year 1958 (?) (1r, 193v). .

Cod.: paper, 193 ff. (foliated with Urdu forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil near the top left of the text area on rectos; additionally paginated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil in the centre of the upper margin; a crossed-out earlier foliation in black in the upper left corner of rectos with some irregularities; catchwords). A single nastaʿlīq hand; almost fully dotted ductus, few vowel marks, very few hamzas. Book and chapter headings and qawlu-hu / aqūlu initially in red, later all omitted; some use of red overlines and dots as textual dividers. Diagrams with black lines and red geometrical points. Tables with red lines. Codex in bad condition; considerable damage by insects repaired with Japanese paper, frequently affecting the readability; outer and inner margins of f. 193 reinforced by large strokes of paper; ink in top lines of ff. 166–180 bled due to moisture. Dimensions: 26.0×14.2 cm; 25 lines per page.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–193v). Blank: none.

Bibl.: Muhammad Ashraf, A Concise Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Salar Jung Museum and Library, VIII: Concerning 206 Manuscripts on Mathematics, Astronomy, Astrology, Medicine, Natural History and Alchemy, Hyderabad, 2000, p. 30 (no. 2222).

1v–⁠193v	\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن رسيل من علق يمينه بشكر يمتري الزيادة فأحمده على ما أولينا (كذا) من النعم ذات الطول والـ{ـعـ}ـرض — \193v\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة ويسري ويجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة و{...} = Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) . — Title: Tafsīr al-Taḥrīr (1r). — Additional Title: Majisṭī ʿilm … (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–3v; Book I, 3v–?; ff. 38v–166r not seen; XII, ?–179r; XIII, 179r–193v (incomplete). — Dated authorial colophon for Book XII; no scribal colophon. Minor marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ.

1v–⁠193v

\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن رسيل من علق يمينه بشكر يمتري الزيادة فأحمده على ما أولينا (كذا) من النعم ذات الطول والـ{ـعـ}ـرض — \193v\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة ويسري ويجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة و{...}

= Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38)

. — Title: Tafsīr al-Taḥrīr (1r). — Additional Title: Majisṭī ʿilm … (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–3v; Book I, 3v–?; ff. 38v–166r not seen; XII, ?–179r; XIII, 179r–193v (incomplete). — Dated authorial colophon for Book XII; no scribal colophon. Minor marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ.