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Kolkata, The Asiatic Society, 1498 (Ar. 193)

[Colour scanned images of ff. 1r–130r and 589v–606v]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

undated; c. 11^th/17^th c. (Hidayat Hosain et al.).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

large oval seal in Persian, Devanagari and Bengali: Kitāb Kālij Fūrt Wilyam (1r, 606v), and ‘College of Fort William’ in Latin script (1r), i.e., the library of the College of Fort William in Calcutta, founded in 1800 and dissolved in 1854. Oval and round stamps of the Asiatic Society (1r–v, 606r–v). The work was misattributed to al-Ṭūsī (library slip, in Latin script).

Cod.: paper, 606 ff. (foliated with Urdu forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil; catchwords). A single nastaʿlīq hand; almost fully dotted ductus with few vowel marks and shaddas in the beginning. Headings of Books I and II, chapter beginnings and qawlu-hu in red; some use of red overlines as markers in the beginning. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals in red or overlined (in red). Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or vice versa; some diagrams in the margins (42v, 44r, 46v). Table lines in red. Text area in the last part surrounded by a double rule border in red. Codex in bad condition; heavy damage by insects, in particular around the folds, affecting the readability; minor moisture damage in some upper margins; restorations with Japanese paper, now turned dark brown. Dimensions: c. 27¼×16½ cm, written area: c. 19×10½ cm; 17 lines per page.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–606r). Blank: none.

Bibl.: M. Hidayat Hosain, M. Mahfuz-ul Haq and M. Ishaque, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. II, Calcutta: Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1949, p. 191 (no. 1498).

1v–⁠606r	\1v\ الحمد لله الذي جعلنا من المتفكّرين في خلق السموات والأرض وألهمنا طريق معرفته مقادير حركات الأجرام النيرة في الطول والعرض — \606r\ والحمد للّه أوّلًا وآخرًا وباطنًا وظاهرًا والصلوة والسلام على زبدة الليالي {و}الأيّام محمّد سيّد الـ{ـثقـ}ـلين وخير الأنام وآله الأخيار العظام و{شـ}ـيعته الأبرار الكرام. = al-Birjandī, Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.44) . — Title: Sharḥ Majistī az ʿallāma ʿAbd al-ʿAlī (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–3v; Book I, 3v–118v; Book II, 118v–?; ff. 130v–589r not seen; Book XIII, ?–606r (chapter XIII.5 incomplete). — Damaged authorial colophon; no scribal colophon. Few marginal corrections by the scribe, indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Few marginal annotations, mainly in a fine hand (e.g., 3r, 75r, 111r), some possibly serving as indicators for rubrications (e.g., 55r, 109r, 118v). Few collations marks blgh (e.g., 17v, 25r).

1v–⁠606r

\1v\ الحمد لله الذي جعلنا من المتفكّرين في خلق السموات والأرض وألهمنا طريق معرفته مقادير حركات الأجرام النيرة في الطول والعرض — \606r\ والحمد للّه أوّلًا وآخرًا وباطنًا وظاهرًا والصلوة والسلام على زبدة الليالي {و}الأيّام محمّد سيّد الـ{ـثقـ}ـلين وخير الأنام وآله الأخيار العظام و{شـ}ـيعته الأبرار الكرام.

= al-Birjandī, Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.44)

. — Title: Sharḥ Majistī az ʿallāma ʿAbd al-ʿAlī (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–3v; Book I, 3v–118v; Book II, 118v–?; ff. 130v–589r not seen; Book XIII, ?–606r (chapter XIII.5 incomplete). — Damaged authorial colophon; no scribal colophon. Few marginal corrections by the scribe, indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Few marginal annotations, mainly in a fine hand (e.g., 3r, 75r, 111r), some possibly serving as indicators for rubrications (e.g., 55r, 109r, 118v). Few collations marks blgh (e.g., 17v, 25r).