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Lucknow, Nasiriya Library, 1077⁢⁢

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Parts of a single work: Arabic. Undated; unknown origin and unknown scribe. Prov.:

a rectangular seal by the Shīʿia scholar and founder of the Nasiriya Library, Sayyid Muḥammad Qulī Mūsawī (d. 1260/1844) dated 1221 (?)/1807-8 (1r); a statement of endowment by Sayyid Muḥammad Qulī to his sons, written by Iʿjāz (?) Ḥusayn, one of his sons, and dated 25 Shawwal 1259/18 November 1843, with a rectangular seal dated 1253/1837-8 (1r).

Cod.: paper, I+103+II^a ff. (foliated with Urdu forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in black on every recto, with ff. 63–66 bound upside down in reverse order; catchwords). A single nastaʿlīq hand; mostly dotted ductus, maddas, no hamzas, vowel marks or shaddas. Book and chapter headings in red, sometimes omitted; qawlu-hu in red. Abjad numerals overlined in black or red. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points, but mostly unfinished or omitted . Codex in poor condition; heavy damage by insects throughout, some restorations with tape; some ink corrosion. Dimensions: unknown; 19 lines per page.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–103v). Blank: Iv, I^ar, and presumably Ir and I^av–II^av.

Bibl.: —

1v–⁠103v	\1v\ الحمد للّه الذي جعلنا من المتفكّرين في خلق السموات والأرض وألهمنا طريق معرفة مقادير حركات الأجرام النيّرة في الطول والعرض خلق سبع سموات طباقًا وجعل القمر فيهنّ نورًا وجعل الشمس سراجًا — \103v\ ولنا وضعت الجميع في جدول وأحد كان في الأصل لكلّ كوكب خمسة جداول أمّا\|\|  = al-Birjandī, Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.42) . Title: Ḥāshiya-yi Majisṭī (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–3r; Book I, 3r–12v (incomplete); 〈VIII〉, 13r–31v (beginning missing); IX, 31v–54r; X/XI, 54r–70r/61v–74v (in disorder); XII, 74v–89r; XIII, 74v–103v (incomplete). The scribe stopped copying one third into the last page. — No scribal colophon. Few marginal corrections and annotations in the hand of the scribe indicated by sigla ṣḥ and reference mark ‘12’.

1v–⁠103v

\1v\ الحمد للّه الذي جعلنا من المتفكّرين في خلق السموات والأرض وألهمنا طريق معرفة مقادير حركات الأجرام النيّرة في الطول والعرض خلق سبع سموات طباقًا وجعل القمر فيهنّ نورًا وجعل الشمس سراجًا — \103v\ ولنا وضعت الجميع في جدول وأحد كان في الأصل لكلّ كوكب خمسة جداول أمّا|| 

= al-Birjandī, Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.42)

. Title: Ḥāshiya-yi Majisṭī (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–3r; Book I, 3r–12v (incomplete); 〈VIII〉, 13r–31v (beginning missing); IX, 31v–54r; X/XI, 54r–70r/61v–74v (in disorder); XII, 74v–89r; XIII, 74v–103v (incomplete). The scribe stopped copying one third into the last page. — No scribal colophon. Few marginal corrections and annotations in the hand of the scribe indicated by sigla ṣḥ and reference mark ‘12’.