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Hyderabad, Salar Jung Museum, riyāḍī 9⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of ff. 1r–51r and 234v–276v.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

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

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

undated statement of purchase by ʿAbd al-Samīʿ al-Ṭabīb, with a small oval seal (1r). A rectangular seal of a certain Abū l-Qāsim (1r, 2r, 42r, 276r). A small rectangular seal mentioning the name ‘Muḥammad …’ (1r; ‘Muḥammad al-Qāsim’ according to Ashraf). An illegible oval seal in blue ink (1v, 276r). An erased seal (276r). An oval seal of the Kitābkhāna Aḥmadī Shīrāz dated 1324/1906-7 or 1334/1915-6 (2r). Library stamps and notes, including restoration (tanqīḥ) stamps with the year 1958 (?) (1r, 276r). A former shelfmark (?): ‘3135’ (1r).

Cod.: paper, 276 ff. (foliated with Urdu forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil just left above the text area on rectos; additionally paginated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil in the centre of the upper margin; catchwords). A single nastaʿlīq hand; sparsely dotted ductus in the beginning with some vowel marks and hamzas; undotted ductus towards the end. Book headings, chapter beginnings and qawlu-hu / aqūlu in red; some use of red overlines and dots as markers. Abjad numerals not highlighted. Diagrams with black lines and red geometrical points or exceptionally vice versa (e.g., 243v). Tables with red lines. Codex in good condition; some damage by insects, especially in the margins and folds and to the doublures; some stains, including a large brown one on ff. 1–4; outer corners of ff. 1, 272–276 repaired with paper; binding loose. Dimensions: 25.4×10.8 cm; 20 lines per page (misṭara imprints).

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–276r). 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, pp. 29–30 (no. 2221).

1v–⁠276r	\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة. واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر يمتري الزيادة. فأحمده على ما أوّلانا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض. — \276r\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة ويسرى وتجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة وبشرى ويرحم اللّه عبدًا قال أمينًا والحمد للّه أوّل (كذا) وآخرًا تمّ. = Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) . — Title: Majistī (sic) (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–4v; Book I, 4v–?; ff. 51v–234r not seen; XI, ?–234v; XII, 234v–253r; XIII, 253r–276r. — Dated authorial colophon after Books XI and XII; no scribal colophon. Few marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ.

1v–⁠276r

\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة. واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر يمتري الزيادة. فأحمده على ما أوّلانا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض. — \276r\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة ويسرى وتجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة وبشرى ويرحم اللّه عبدًا قال أمينًا والحمد للّه أوّل (كذا) وآخرًا تمّ.

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

. — Title: Majistī (sic) (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–4v; Book I, 4v–?; ff. 51v–234r not seen; XI, ?–234v; XII, 234v–253r; XIII, 253r–276r. — Dated authorial colophon after Books XI and XII; no scribal colophon. Few marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ.