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Kolkata, The Asiatic Society, 1499 (III 1057)

[Colour scanned images of ff. 1v–73v and 288v–352v.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

completed in 1265/1848-9 for Mīrzā Ghulām Rasūl and Āghā Muḥammad Ḥasan.

Or.:

Indian subcontinent; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

library stamps (1v, 299r, 352v). The work was misattributed to al-Ṭūsī (library slip, in Latin script).

Cod.: paper, 352 ff. (foliated with Urdu forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil in the upper left area of rectos, not agreeing with the foliation with red Urdu forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals ranging from 2 to 345 in the table of contents; catchwords). A single neat nastaʿlīq hand; almost fully dotted ductus with only few vowel marks, shaddas or hamzas. Book headings, chapter beginnings and qawlu-hu in red or overlined in red; some further use of red overlines for emphasis. Abjad numerals in the text overlined in red. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or occasionally entirely in black, all in the margins, some unfinished (e.g., 312r, 330r, 334v), some missing (e.g., up to chapter I.10); table in chapter I.12 missing. Text area surrounded by a thin rule-border in red. Codex in acceptable condition; damage by insects throughout, sometimes affecting the readability; restorations with Japanese paper. Dimensions: c. 33⅝×23½ cm, written area: c. 23½×14 cm; 21 lines per page.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–351v); table of contents (352r–v, in the hand of the scribe). 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. 192 (no. 1499).

1v–⁠351v	\1v\ الحمد لله الذي جعلنا من المتفكّرين في خلق السموات والأرض وألهمنا طريق معرفته مقادير حركات الأجرام النيّرة في الطول والعرض — \351v\ والحمد للّه وآخر وباطنًا وظاهرًا والصلوت (كذا) والسلام على زبد (كذا) الليالي والأنام (كذا) محمّد سيّد الثقلين وخير الأنام وآله الأخيار العظام ومسبحة الأبرار الكرام. = al-Birjandī, Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.44) . — Title: none. — Index: preface, 1v–2v; Book I, 2v–62r; II, 62r–?; ff. 74r–288r not seen; IX, ?–290r; X/XI, 290r–311v; XII, 311v–328r; XIII, 328r–351v. Book XII erroneously headed al-maqāla al-thālitha ʿashar. — Authorial colophon; dated scribal colophon. Few marginal annotations in Persian in a similar nastaʿlīq hand (e.g., 22r, 23r, 315r) with diagrams mostly marked with the word dāʾira. Numerous additional diagrams in the margins in the hand of the scribe, mostly indicated with dāʾira (e.g., 17r, 38r, 319r).

1v–⁠351v

\1v\ الحمد لله الذي جعلنا من المتفكّرين في خلق السموات والأرض وألهمنا طريق معرفته مقادير حركات الأجرام النيّرة في الطول والعرض — \351v\ والحمد للّه وآخر وباطنًا وظاهرًا والصلوت (كذا) والسلام على زبد (كذا) الليالي والأنام (كذا) محمّد سيّد الثقلين وخير الأنام وآله الأخيار العظام ومسبحة الأبرار الكرام.

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

. — Title: none. — Index: preface, 1v–2v; Book I, 2v–62r; II, 62r–?; ff. 74r–288r not seen; IX, ?–290r; X/XI, 290r–311v; XII, 311v–328r; XIII, 328r–351v. Book XII erroneously headed al-maqāla al-thālitha ʿashar. — Authorial colophon; dated scribal colophon. Few marginal annotations in Persian in a similar nastaʿlīq hand (e.g., 22r, 23r, 315r) with diagrams mostly marked with the word dāʾira. Numerous additional diagrams in the margins in the hand of the scribe, mostly indicated with dāʾira (e.g., 17r, 38r, 319r).