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Mosul, Maktabat al-Awqāf al-ʿāmma, al-Madrasa al-Amīniyya 21/3

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

finished on Saturday, 21 Jumādā l-ūlā 1045/3 November 1635 (196r).

Or.:

unknown, copied by Faḍl Allāh b. Muḥammad Muʾmin Sabziwārī (196r); the same scribe made a copy of the Persian Mafātīḥ al-Najāh by Muḥammad Bāqir al-Sabziwārī (presumably his brother) in golden ink and dedicated it to Shah ʿAbbās II in Shaʿbān 1056/September 1646 (DharīʿaĀqā Buzurg al-Ṭihrānī, al-Dharīʿa ilā taṣānīf al-Shīʿa, 25 vols, Najaf: Maṭbaʿat al-Gharī / Tehran: various publishers, 1936–1978 (1355–1398 H.), vol. XXI, p. 308 (no. 5213)).

Prov.:

undated ownership statement by Muḥammad Taqī l-Munajjim, with a rectangular seal (1r); ownership statement by Muḥammad Riḍā b. Muḥammad Taqī with an illegible rectangular seal (1r); Persian note of donation to Muḥammad ʿAlī by his father with an illegible rectangular seal (1r); ownership statement by Muḥammad ʿAlī, who received the manuscript from his father Muḥammad Riḍā, with an illegible rectangular seal (1r); these three owners were members of a well-known Safavid family of astronomers from the city of Gonabad in eastern Iran, see the description of MS Tehran, Dānishgāh, F 2885. An ownership statement with a rectangular seal, both illegible (1r). Endowment statement by Sulaymān Bāshā b. Muḥammad Amīn Bāshā b. Ḥusayn Bāshā al-Jalīlī dated 1192/1778-9, with his oval seal (1r); he instituted the library at the Bāshā mosque that had been founded by his father (Aḥmad, pp. 7–8). Old shelfmark: ‘Jāmiʿ al-Bāshā 353’. After 1974, the al-Bāshā collection was transferred to the Maktabat al-Awqāf of Mosul, which was captured and ransacked by the Islamic State in June 2014. The present state of the manuscript is unknown.

Cod.: paper, I+196 ff. (unfoliated; catchwords). A single nastaʿlīq hand with occasional tendency to naskh; almost fully dotted ductus. Book headings in (presumably) red; section beginnings in red and mostly introduced by bold abjad numerals in the margins. Abjad numerals in the text sometimes in red. Diagrams mostly invisible on the scans. Table headings in bold thuluth, sometimes missing (e.g., 133r, 134v–136r). Codex seemingly in good condition; binding becoming loose. Dimensions: 24.5×14 cm; 17 or 19 lines per page. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–196r). Blank: Iv, and presumably Ir and 196v.

Bibl.: Sālim ʿAbd al-Razzāq Aḥmad, Fihris makhṭūṭāt Maktabat al-Awqāf al-ʿāmma fī l-Mawṣil, vol. IV: Khazāʾin al-Madrasa al-Amīniyya fī Jāmiʿ al-Bāshā, 2^nd ed., Mosul: Wizārat al-Awqāf wa-l-Shuʾūn al-Dīniyya, 1982 (1403 H.), pp. 147–148; LAMTMª José Parra, ‘A List of Arabic Manuscripts of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī’, Suhayl 16–17 (2018–2019), pp. 251–322, p. 282 (no. 62).

1v–⁠196r	\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \195v\ فليختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه \196r\ خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأنبيائه. [table] = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Kitāb al-Majisṭī (in the hand of the owner Muḥammad Taqī l-Munajjim, 1r). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–22r; II, 22r–v, 45r–63r; III, 63r–78r; IV, 78r–93v, 23r–25r; V, 25r–43v; VI, 43v–44v, 94r–v, 138r–143v, 95r–104v; VII, 104v–115v; VIII, 115v–128v; IX, 128v–137v, 144r–156v; X, 156v–162v; XI, 162v–173v; XII, 173v–182r; XIII, 182r–196r. — Dated scribal colophon. Frequent marginal corrections and/or annotations in a hand similar to the scribe’s.

1v–⁠196r

\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \195v\ فليختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه \196r\ خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأنبيائه. [table]

= Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18)

. — Title: Kitāb al-Majisṭī (in the hand of the owner Muḥammad Taqī l-Munajjim, 1r). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–22r; II, 22r–v, 45r–63r; III, 63r–78r; IV, 78r–93v, 23r–25r; V, 25r–43v; VI, 43v–44v, 94r–v, 138r–143v, 95r–104v; VII, 104v–115v; VIII, 115v–128v; IX, 128v–137v, 144r–156v; X, 156v–162v; XI, 162v–173v; XII, 173v–182r; XIII, 182r–196r. — Dated scribal colophon. Frequent marginal corrections and/or annotations in a hand similar to the scribe’s.