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

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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 ownership statements 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: 20.3×14 cm, written area: 15.2×10.2 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 — \170v\ 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: 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 siglum 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 — \170v\ 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: 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 siglum ṣ and several glosses, all in the scribe’s hand.