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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\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته 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\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته 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.