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Mashhad, Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 14018⁢⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Collection of a main work and three short treatises: Arabic and Persian. Date:

undated; 11^th c. (online).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

multiple erased or faded seals (1r). A small oval seal ‘Muḥammad Bāqir’, possibly the well-known mathematician Mullā Muḥammad Bāqir Yazdī (d. 1056/1646-7) (Ir, 1r). Endownment of Fāḍil Khān in 1065/1654-5 (library slip). A statement of registration in the Madrasa-yi Fāḍiliyya on 9 Rabīʿ al-awwal 1289/17 May 1872, with a small oval seal ‘Aḥmad al-Mūsawī’ (1r); a statement of registration dated 1297, with a seal ‘ʿAbd al-Raḥīṃ Muḥammad’ with year ‘12?6’ (1v); a statement of registration dated 13〈0〉2/1884-5 (?), with seal ‘ʿAbd al-Raḥīṃ Muḥammad’ (2r); a waqf statement in favour of the Madrasa Fāḍil Khān (2r). Statements of inspection dated 1289, 1293 and 1300/1872–1883, with seals (1v). A small round seal ‘Muḥammad’ with floral motif (277v). Old shelfmark: ‘riyāḍiyyāt 942/3’ (Ir). This is the previous MS Mashhad, Madrasa-yi Nawwāb, 3 riyāḍiyyāt and MS Mashhad, Madrasa-yi Fāḍilliya, 10.

Cod.: paper, I+277 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals on rectos up to f. 272, skipping 33, 162, 197 and 198; ff. 178–193 and 202–209 misplaced after f. 14, f. 70 after f. 128, and ff. 159–160 after f. 147; a dozen inserted unnumbered slips of paper; catchwords). A single nastaʿlīq hand; dotted ductus. Book and chapter titles and abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals in red. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or the other way around, towards the end of the codex often unfinished. Tables with red lines; sometimes unfinished or entirely omitted (e.g., the remaining planetary mean motions on the blank folios 195v–201v). Codex in acceptable condition; significant damage by insects around the fold. Dimensions: 21×12 cm; 17 lines per page. Dark-brown leather covers with blind-stamped frame. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy, pharmacology. — Index: a list of fifteen titles belonging to the ‘Middle Books’ (Kitāb al-Mutawassiṭāt) and six titles of recensions by al-Ṭūsī (1r); Ptolemaica (1v–272r); an unidentified Persian treatise on the Theorem of Menelaos (shakl al-qaṭṭāʿ) (272v–273r); Abū l-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf al-Isrāʾīlī al-Maghribī, a treatise on pharmacology (273v–275v); an unidentified treatise on planetary motions (275v–277v). Blank: Iv, 195v–201v, 262v, 266v–267r.

Bibl.: 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, p. 214 (no. 34); 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. 281 (no. 61).

1v–⁠272r	\1v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \272r\ ولأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والثروة (كذا) من آله وأحبّائه. تمّت. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Taḥrīr Majisṭī (1r). — Index (with misplaced folios indicated by an asterisk): preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–31v; II, 31v–57r; III, 57r–78v; IV, 78v–103r; V, 103r–131r; VI, 131r–154r; VII, 154r–175r; VIII, 175r–177v, 178r–188v; IX, 189r–193v, 194r–201v, 202r–209v*, 210r–220v; X, 220v–229r; XI, 229r–241v; XII, 242r–253v; XIII, 253v–272r. — No colophon. Some marginal corrections. Extensive glosses in some parts of the manuscript.

1v–⁠272r

\1v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \272r\ ولأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والثروة (كذا) من آله وأحبّائه. تمّت.

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

. — Title: Taḥrīr Majisṭī (1r). — Index (with misplaced folios indicated by an asterisk): preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–31v; II, 31v–57r; III, 57r–78v; IV, 78v–103r; V, 103r–131r; VI, 131r–154r; VII, 154r–175r; VIII, 175r–177v, 178r–188v*; IX, 189r–193v*, 194r–201v, 202r–209v*, 210r–220v; X, 220v–229r; XI, 229r–241v; XII, 242r–253v; XIII, 253v–272r. — No colophon. Some marginal corrections. Extensive glosses in some parts of the manuscript.