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Kolkata, The Asiatic Society, 1494 (Ar. 602)

[Colour scanned images of ff. I–90r and the front cover.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

undated; c. 12^th/18^th c. (Hidayat Hosain et al.).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

library name and stamp in Persian, Devanagari and Bengali of the College Fort William in Calcutta, which operated from 1800 to 1854 (1r). Old shelfmarks: 656 (crossed out), ‘〈Ar.〉 602’ (twice), ‘NC 9’ (all on f. Ir). Stamps ‘Asiatic Society of Bengal Library’ and ‘Asiatic Society’ (1r).

Cod.: paper, I+273 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil; catchwords). Black nastaʿlīq; mostly dotted ductus, no shaddas or hamzas. Book header in bold black, book title in bold red; section headers, qawlu-hu and aqūlu in red. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals, geometrical points in the text, and some sentence beginnings overlined in red. Reserved spaces for diagrams. Codex in very bad condition; major damage by rodents and insects, water stains and mold, covers worn. Dimensions: c. 22¼×15¼ cm, written area: c. 14⅝×8⅞ cm; 11 lines per page. Brown cardboard covers. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–273). Blank: Iv.

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, pp. 188–189 (no. 1494).

1v–⁠273	\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن وسيل (كذا) من أعلق يمينه بشكر يمتري الزيادة وأحمده على ما أوّلا{نا من ا}لنعم ذ{ا}ت الطول والعرض. = Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) . — Title: Sharḥ-i Majisṭī az … Niẓām al-Dīn Nīsāpūrī dar hayʾa (1r). — Additional titles: Sharḥ-i Majisṭī az Niẓām al-Dīn dar hayʾa ʿarabī (Ir, 1r); ‘Commentary on Almagest’ and ‘Sherah-Mijsati vol II’ (Ir, in pencil). — Index: preface, 1v–8v; Book I, 8v–?; ff. 90v–273 not seen, the scans break of in section I.12. According to Hidayat Hosain et al., the codex ends in Book III, which starts on f. 212r. — No corrections or glosses.

1v–⁠273

\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن وسيل (كذا) من أعلق يمينه بشكر يمتري الزيادة وأحمده على ما أوّلا{نا من ا}لنعم ذ{ا}ت الطول والعرض.

= Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38)

. — Title: Sharḥ-i Majisṭī az … Niẓām al-Dīn Nīsāpūrī dar hayʾa (1r). — Additional titles: Sharḥ-i Majisṭī az Niẓām al-Dīn dar hayʾa ʿarabī (Ir, 1r); ‘Commentary on Almagest’ and ‘Sherah-Mijsati vol II’ (Ir, in pencil). — Index: preface, 1v–8v; Book I, 8v–?; ff. 90v–273 not seen, the scans break of in section I.12. According to Hidayat Hosain et al., the codex ends in Book III, which starts on f. 212r. — No corrections or glosses.