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Kolkata, National Library of India, Buhar Arabic 346⁢⁢⁢⁢⁢⁢

[Trimmed black-and-white microfilm scans of the textblock.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

undated; c. 12^th/18^th c. (Hidāyat Ḥusain).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

a note on the Greek title of the Almagest and its meaning (1r); an anonymous note, considering the manuscript as a royal gift (170v). Round seal of ʿAlī Muẓaffar Khān fadawī-yi Pādshāh-i Ghāzī Muḥammad Shāh, dated 1131/1718-9 (1r, 170v). Statement of purchase by Muḥammad Yūsuf Ḥusaynī Wāsiṭī Bilgrāmī, dated 15 Shaʿbān 1156/4 October 1743, accompanied by his oval seal, dated 1150/1737-8 (1r). Three statements of ownership by a certain ʿIṣmat Allāh, one dated 29 Jumādā l-ūlā 1269/10 March 1853 (1r); on the basis of this name, Hidāyat Ḥusain attributed the work to the mathematician and astronomer ʿIṣmat Allāh b. Aʿẓam b. ʿAbd al-Rasūl al-Sahāranpūrī (second half of the eleventh/seventeenth century). An owner statement by Muẓaffar Ḥusayn Khān b. Masīḥ al-Dawla (?) dated 2 January 1870 (1v). Several illegible seals (1r, 1v, 170v). Two types of stamps of the Imperial Library (1r, 1v, 10v, 170v).

Cod.: paper, 170 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals, mostly cut off from the scans; an older foliation at the top left edge of the text area, frequently omitted or cut off and skipping ‘114’; occasional catchwords). A single clear naskh hand in black; mostly dotted ductus, frequent shaddas (also for solar letters) and final hamzas, a few maddas and tanwīns. Book and chapter titles in the same hand as the main text; al-maqāla and al-faṣl oversized and overlined (e.g., 45r, 59v, 69v). Numerical values occasionally in Hindu-Arabic numerals. Letters referring to geometrical points in the text overlined. Several diagrams without letters and labels. Manuscript in mediocre condition; damage by moisture and insects throughout, affecting the readability. Dimensions: 5.5×8 cm, written area: 4×6 cm; 17 lines per page. Covers in leather with marbled pasteboards (note on f. 1r).

Cont.: astronomy — Index: Ptolemaica (1r–170v).

Bibl.: M. Hidāyat Ḥusain, Catalogue raisonné of the Būhār Library, Vol. II: Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Būhār Library, Calcutta: Imperial Library, 1923, p. 381.

1v–⁠170v	\1v\ فلمّا كانت العلوم اليقينيّة والمطالب الحقيقيّة أشرف العلوم مرتبة وأعلاها منزلة لا سيّما الكتاب الموسوم بالمجسطي الذي هو المقصد الأقصى والمطلب الأعلى من العلوم الرياضيّة وخاصّة كتاب تحرير المجسطي — \170v\ وليس للعلويّة من الاختفاءات الصباحيّة ولا الظهورات المسائيّة لكون الشمس أسرع منها بخلاف السفليّين فإنّ لها الاختفاءات الصباحيّة والظهورات المسائيّة لكونهما أسرع من الشمس والله أعلم. تمّ الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهّاب. = Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Samarqandī, Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.37) . — Title: Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (1r). — Additional titles: Ḥāshiya-i Taḥrīr-i Majisṭī balki Sharḥ (1r); Sharḥ Taḥrīr Majisṭī (170v, as an addition by a different hand). — Index: author’s preface, 1v; Book I, 1v–21r; II, 21r–33v; III, 33v–45v; IV, 45v–57v; V, 57v–80v; VI, 80v–100r; VII, 100r–101v; VIII, 101v–106r; IX, 106r–118v; X, 118v–123v; XI, 123v–134v; XII, 134v–148v; XIII, 148v–170v. — No authorial or scribal colophon. Minor marginal corrections indicated by ṣ and several glosses, all in the scribe’s hand.

1v–⁠170v

\1v\ فلمّا كانت العلوم اليقينيّة والمطالب الحقيقيّة أشرف العلوم مرتبة وأعلاها منزلة لا سيّما الكتاب الموسوم بالمجسطي الذي هو المقصد الأقصى والمطلب الأعلى من العلوم الرياضيّة وخاصّة كتاب تحرير المجسطي — \170v\ وليس للعلويّة من الاختفاءات الصباحيّة ولا الظهورات المسائيّة لكون الشمس أسرع منها بخلاف السفليّين فإنّ لها الاختفاءات الصباحيّة والظهورات المسائيّة لكونهما أسرع من الشمس والله أعلم. تمّ الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهّاب.

= Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Samarqandī, Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.37)

. — Title: Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (1r). — Additional titles: Ḥāshiya-i Taḥrīr-i Majisṭī balki Sharḥ (1r); Sharḥ Taḥrīr Majisṭī (170v, as an addition by a different hand). — Index: author’s preface, 1v; Book I, 1v–21r; II, 21r–33v; III, 33v–45v; IV, 45v–57v; V, 57v–80v; VI, 80v–100r; VII, 100r–101v; VIII, 101v–106r; IX, 106r–118v; X, 118v–123v; XI, 123v–134v; XII, 134v–148v; XIII, 148v–170v. — No authorial or scribal colophon. Minor marginal corrections indicated by ṣ and several glosses, all in the scribe’s hand.