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Patna, Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, HL 2038⁢⁢⁢⁢⁢

[Trimmed colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

28 Ramaḍān 1227/5 October 1812 (190r).

Or.:

probably Indian subcontinent; copied by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (190r).

Prov.:

oval library stamp (1r). ‘Prog. no. 2215’ with date ‘18-6-1955’ (back flyleaf).

Cod.: paper, 190 ff. (foliation with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil, mostly multiples of 10, only visible on a very small number of rectos; ff. 111–118 misplaced; catchwords). A single nastaʿlīq hand; dotted ductus. Book and chapter titles in red, chapter numbers in abjad and overlined. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals overlined in red; geometrical points in the text without rubrication or overlining. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or vice versa. Tables with red or black lines, possibly partially by a different hand. Codex in acceptable condition; numerous small restorations with tape, almost never hindering the reading; some margins replaced. Dimensions: 29¼×16½ cm, written area: 19×9 cm; 17 lines per page. Modern half-bound covers. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–190r). Blank: 190v.

Bibl.: Abdul Hamid, Fihrist-i dastī-i kutub-i qalamī-i lābrirī mawqūfa Khān Bahādur Khudābakhsh Khan-i marḥūm, musammā bah Miftāḥ al-kunūz al-khafiyya, vol. I, Patna: Oriental Public Library, 1918, p. 234; Maulavi Abdul Hamid, Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in the Oriental Public Library at Bankipore, Vol. XXII: Arabic MSS. Science, Patna: Government Printing Bihar, 1937, p. 38 (no. 2446); 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. 286 (no. 69).

1v–⁠190r	\1v\ الحمد لله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \190r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول إذ وفّقني الله لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا ومصلّيًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه 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–9v, 118r–v, 111r–117v, 10r–13r; II, 13r–25v; III, 25v–38r; IV, 38v–52v; V, 53r–72r; VI, 72r–89r; VII, 89r–107v; VIII, 106v–110v, 119r–136r; IX, 136r–156r; X, 156r–161v; XI, 161v–171r; XII, 171r–179r; XIII, 179r–190r. — Dated scribal colophon in Persian. No corrections. Occasional annotations. This copy of the Taḥrīr presents various additions and changes of diagrams, both in the margins and in the text. Examples include: added labels (e.g., 7v); added black colouring (58r, 64r, 80v), double circle for the deferent (57r), complete circles instead of arcs (e.g., 70r, 87r, 113r, 149r), added deferent (183v), new diagrams with labels (e.g., 7v, 115r, 61r, 63v, 80v, 190r, 179v, 182v), and reversal of the colouring. An additional table is found in the bottom part of f. 81r.

1v–⁠190r

\1v\ الحمد لله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \190r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول إذ وفّقني الله لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا ومصلّيًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه 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–9v, 118r–v, 111r–117v, 10r–13r; II, 13r–25v; III, 25v–38r; IV, 38v–52v; V, 53r–72r; VI, 72r–89r; VII, 89r–107v; VIII, 106v–110v, 119r–136r; IX, 136r–156r; X, 156r–161v; XI, 161v–171r; XII, 171r–179r; XIII, 179r–190r. — Dated scribal colophon in Persian. No corrections. Occasional annotations. This copy of the Taḥrīr presents various additions and changes of diagrams, both in the margins and in the text. Examples include: added labels (e.g., 7v); added black colouring (58r, 64r, 80v), double circle for the deferent (57r), complete circles instead of arcs (e.g., 70r, 87r, 113r, 149r), added deferent (183v), new diagrams with labels (e.g., 7v, 115r, 61r, 63v, 80v, 190r, 179v, 182v), and reversal of the colouring. An additional table is found in the bottom part of f. 81r.