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Mashhad, Dānishgāh-i Firdawsī-yi Mashhad, Ilahiyyāt 673⁢⁢

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A collection of six works, three appendices, and an extract: Arabic.  Date:

the main Ptolemaic work finished on 12 Ṣafar 1086/​8 May 1675 (147r), its second appendix on Monday, 25 Ṣafar 1086/​20 May 1675 (151r); other works finished between 28 Ṣafar 1086/​24 May 1675 and Ramaḍān 1087/​November 1676 (153r, 159v, 162r, 175v, 214r).

Or.:

Isafahan; copied by Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Najafī (147r, 151r, 159v, 162r, 175v, 214r). The main Ptolemaic work was copied from an exemplar by the hand of Niẓām al-Dīn Muḥammad that had been collated against a manuscript attributed to al-Ṭūsī himself; Niẓām al-Dīn had finished the tables, marginalia and diagrams in the morning of 2 Rajab 1074/​30 January 1664, the letters denoting geometrical points (arqāmu-hā) on 15 Rajab 1074/​12 February 1664, and the text on 11 Shawwāl 1074/​7 May 1664 (147r). According to a note dated to the night of Friday, the last day (salkh) of Rabīʿ al-awwal 1087/​12 June 1676, marginal annotations to the Kitāb al-Ukar were copied by the scribe from an exemplar in the hand of Muḥammad Bāqir al-Yazdī (175v).

Prov.:

a maqāla on the determination of an arc of the meridian composed by Muḥammad Mahdī al-Ḥusaynī l-Mūsawī for Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Nāẓir al-Raḍawī during Nawrūz 1202/​late March 1787 (IIr, in nastaʿlīq on a different type of paper, with restored margins); ownership statement by Muḥammad b. Muḥammad Ibrāhīm 〈al-Nāẓir〉 al-Raḍawī (on his father, see Ḥasan al-Amīn, Mustadrakāt aʿyān al-shīʿa, 11 vols, Bayrūt: Dār al-taʿāruf li-l-maṭbūʿāt, 1986–2006, here vol. II, p. 219) (1r); a whole page with names and birth dates, ranging from 1191/1777-8 to 1233/1817-8, in the hand of al-Raḍawī (176r); oval seals of Muḥammad al-Raḍawī dated 1218 (?)/​1803-4 (1r [twice], 153r, 160r, 162r, 176r, 214r). Two Persian ownership statements in thuluth by Mīrzā Muḥammad ʿAlī and a third statement by him in nastaʿlīq (1r). Stamp of the library of ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd Mawlawī in Mashhad dated 1301 H.S./​1922-3, with shelfmark ‘56’ (1r, 214r). Library stamps; a stamp with manuscript numbers ‘7791’ and ‘40/alif’ (Ir).

Cod.: paper, II+214+Ia ff. (unfoliated, except for ff. 5–15 at the centre top of versos and f. 147r; catchwords). A fine naskh hand; almost fully dotted ductus with elongated ascenders, some vowel marks, few hamzas. Book headings of the main Ptolemaic work in bold black thuluth (heading of Book I in red), section beginnings in red and introduced by bold black overlined abjad numerals; qāla / aqūlu overlined in red; propositions indicated by red abjad numerals, mostly with red overlines, in the margins. Abjad numerals overlined, in the Ptolemaic works also in red with or without overlines; Persian variants of Hindu-Arabic numerals in red. Carefully drawn diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or sometimes vice versa; geometrical points missing from f. 193v onwards, some reserved spaces (e.g., 174r, 194v). Tables with red lines. Text area on ff. 1v–8v surrounded by a red rule-border. Codex in very good condition; some water and moisture damage, mostly in the margins; some stains (e.g., 12v–13r, 155r); some margins and folds restored (e.g., ff. I–1, 47, 210–214). Dimensions 31×19 cm; 27 lines per page. Light-brown leather covers with dark-brown onlaid frames. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy, mathematics, geometry. — Index: an extract from Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd Shahrzūrī, Tārīkh al-ḥukamāʾ (Iv, in Persian, in the hand of the scribe); Ptolemaica (1v–147r); Ptolemaica (147v–149v); Ptolemaica (150r–151r); Ptolemaica (151v–152r); Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Inʿikās al-shuʿāʿāt (152r–153r); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb al-Manāẓir li-Uqlīdis (153v–159v); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb al-Masākin li-Thāwdhūsiyūs (160r–162r); al-Ṭūsī, Kitāb al-Ukar li-Thāwdhūsiyūs (162v–175v); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb Mānālāwus fī l-ashkāl al-kuriyya (176v–214r). Blank: IIv.

Bibl.: NashriyyaNashriyya-yi Kitābkhana-yi Markaz-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 14 vols, Tehran: Kitābkhana-yi Markaz-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 1961–1977, vol. V, p. 14 (no. 56); Maḥmūd Fāḍil, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭtī-i Kitābkhāna-yi Dānishgada-yi Ilahiyyāt wa Maʿārif-i Islāmī-i Mashhad, vol. I, Mashhad: Markaz-i Nasr-i Dānishgāhī, 1982 (1361 H.S.), pp. 478–483; FankhāMuṣṭafā Dirāyatī, Fihristgān-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Īrān (Fankhā), 45 vols, Tehran: Library, Museum and Documentation Center of The Islamic Consultative Assembly, 2011–13 1390, vol. VII, pp. 214–215 (no. 39); vol. XXI, p. 118 (no. 2); for the other works see: vol. II, p. 376 (no. 3); vol. V, p. 68 (no. 8); vol. VII, pp. 144 (no. 40), 149 (no. 27), 218 (no. 17), and 228 (no. 24); LAMTMª José Parra, ‘A List of Arabic Manuscripts of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī’, Suhayl 16–17 (2018–2019), pp. 251–322, p. 274 (no. 49, as Mawlawī 56) and p. 281 (no. 59).Mashhad Ilahiyyāt online: http://manuscript.um.ac.ir/moreinfo-1086-pg-1.html.

1v–⁠147r

\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية. ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية. وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \146v\ فلنختم الكتاب. وأقول وإذ وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه \147r\ خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.

= Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18)

. — Title: none. — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–17r; II, 17r–30v; III, 30v–39v; IV, 39v–51r; V, 51v–64r; VI, 64r–75r; VII, 75v–87v; VIII, 87v–101r; IX, 101r–118r; X, 118r–121v; XI, 121v–132r; XII, 132r–138r; XIII, 138r–147r. — Dated scribal colophon, with notes giving the colophon of the autograph and the dates of copying of the exemplar. Some marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ; marginal annotations in the hand of the scribe, partially in nastaʿlīq, mainly in Books I and II, including minhiyyāt (e.g., 56v, 93r), siglum Sharḥ (e.g., 26r), and reference mark ‘12’ (e.g., 14r, 20r).

147v–⁠149v

\147v\ نريد أن نثبت اختلافات وقوع الخطوط في الأشكال التي تعرف منها أوضاع مراكز أفلاك عطارد في مسيراتها — ويكون الأشكال بحسب مسير المركز بالحركة الوسطى مبتدئًا من الأوج إلى التوالي هكذا. [diagrams] \148v\ [tables]

= 〈Risāla fī Ikhtilāfāt wuqūʿ al-khuṭūṭ fī l-ashkāl〉 (C.1.18a)

. — Title: none. — No colophon. Two small marginal corrections (149v); basmala at the beginning.

150r–⁠151r

\150r\ [title] ليكن ا ب ج د ه الحامل على مركز ز وقطر ا ب وح عليه نقطة خارجة عن المركز وج ح د د ح ه زاويتان عليها فإن كانتا متساويتين كانت قوس د ه الأوجيّة — \151r\ فقد تبيّن بالاستقراء ولم يلح لي طريق برهانيّ بعد إلى ذلك واللّه الموفّق.

= Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt (C.1.18b)

. — Title: Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt allatī taḥduthu bi-sabab al-khurūj ʿan al-markaz (150r). — Dated scribal colophon . A minor marginal correction.

151v–⁠152r

\1v\ [title] ا كوكب الرأس وب كوكب الرجل وفي المجسطي لأوّل سنة من ملك أنطونيس طول ا\152r\ فخرج الطول زائدًا على ما أخذه بطلميوس بسبع وعشرين دقيقة. والعرض زائدًا على ما أخذه بخمس وعشرين دقيقة فعرفنا أنّه قد تساهل فيه وعمل على التقريب دون التحقيق واللّه أعلم.

= Fī Shakl al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (C.1.18c)

. — Title: Fī Tashakkul al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (151v). — No colophon. Two minor marginal corrections.