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Lucknow, Nasiriya Library, 1077⁢⁢

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Parts of a single work: Arabic. Date:

undated.

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

a rectangular seal by the Shia 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 — \103v\ ولنا وضعت الجميع في جدول وأحد كان في الأصل لكلّ كوكب خمسة جداول أمّا\|\|  = al-Birjandī, Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.44) . 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 — \103v\ ولنا وضعت الجميع في جدول وأحد كان في الأصل لكلّ كوكب خمسة جداول أمّا|| 

= al-Birjandī, Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.44)

. 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’.