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Hyderabad, Salar Jung Museum, riyāḍī 8

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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 (p. 1). Several statements and seals hardly legible due to restorations (p. 1). Library stamps and notes, including restoration (tanqīḥ) stamps with the year 1958 (e.g., pp. 1, 109, 386).

Cod.: paper, 386 pp. (paginated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil in the centre of the upper margin; foliated with Urdu forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil near the top left of the text area on rectos, often faint; 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 section headings and qawlu-hu / aqūlu up to p. 62 in red, further on 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 pp. 385/6 reinforced with large paper strips; ink in top lines of pp. 313–359 bled due to moisture. Dimensions: 26.0×14.2 cm; 25 lines per page.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (pp. 2–386). Blank: none.

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

pp. 2–⁠386	\p. 2\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن رسيل من علق يمينه بشكر يمتري الزيادة — \p. 386\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة ويسري (كذا) ويجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة و{...} = Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) . — Title: Tafsīr al-Taḥrīr (p. 1). — Additional Title: Majisṭī ʿilm … (p. 1). — Index: preface, pp. 2–6; Book I, pp. 6–78, 89–90, 81–82; II, pp. 82–88, 91–92, 79–80, 93–110 (end missing); III, pp. 110–120 (acephalous); IV, pp. 120–143; V, pp. 143–189 (one folio lost); VI, pp. 189–248 (incomplete); VII, pp. 248–260; VIII, pp. 260–269; IX, pp. 270–297; X, pp. 297–311; XI, pp. 311–328; XII, pp. 328–357; XIII, pp. 357–386 (incomplete). — Dated authorial colophons for all books except XIII; no scribal colophon. Minor marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ. An additional diagram (p. 199).

pp. 2–⁠386

\p. 2\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن رسيل من علق يمينه بشكر يمتري الزيادة — \p. 386\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة ويسري (كذا) ويجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة و{...}

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

. — Title: Tafsīr al-Taḥrīr (p. 1). — Additional Title: Majisṭī ʿilm … (p. 1). — Index: preface, pp. 2–6; Book I, pp. 6–78, 89–90, 81–82; II, pp. 82–88, 91–92, 79–80, 93–110 (end missing); III, pp. 110–120 (acephalous); IV, pp. 120–143; V, pp. 143–189 (one folio lost); VI, pp. 189–248 (incomplete); VII, pp. 248–260; VIII, pp. 260–269; IX, pp. 270–297; X, pp. 297–311; XI, pp. 311–328; XII, pp. 328–357; XIII, pp. 357–386 (incomplete). — Dated authorial colophons for all books except XIII; no scribal colophon. Minor marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ. An additional diagram (p. 199).