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Doha, Maktabat Qaṭar al-waṭaniyya, HC.MS.412

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

undated; c. 12^th/18^th c.

Or.:

unknown; copied by Abū Aḥmad Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad, known as al-Ashraf, from an exemplar dated 778/1376-7, which in turn was copied from the autograph dated 5 Shawwāl 644/13 February 1247 (p. 269). The scribe further quotes a note in the exemplar stating that al-Ṭūsī confirmed on 24 Jumādā l-ūlā 661/5 April 1263 that a copy by the hand of Imām al-Kabīr al-Fāḍil al-Walad Shams al-Milla wa-l-Dīn Sayyid al-ʿUlamāʾ wa-l-Aʾimma ʿAbd al-Kāfī had been read to him by the scribe (p. 269). MS Istanbul, Millet, Feyzullah Efendi 1361, copied in 778/1376-7 and likely the exemplar of the present manuscript, and MS Patna, Khuda Bakhsh, HL 3477 likewise derive from the copy by ʿAbd al-Kāfī.

Prov.:

Old shelfmark (?): 1263 1/2 (sticker on front cover) or 1263 1/2 jadīd (front flyleaf). The codex was part of the private collection of Shaykh Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Thānī (b. 1960) and was transferred to the Qaṭar National Museum in 2009 as part of its Heritage Collection (HC).

Cod.: paper, V+269+V^a pp. (paginated with Persian variants of Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil at the top center, with 263 to 267 repeated after p. 267 and here referred to as 263^bis to 267^bis; catchwords). A single black nastaʿlīq hand with minor tendency to naskh; mostly dotted ductus with few vowel marks and hamzas, rare shaddas. Book titles mostly overlined; blank spaces reserved for book numbers II, V, VII and IX–XIII with most supplied in the margins; section titles with dark red overlines, preceded by abjad numerals. Abjad numerals and Persian variants of Hindu-Arabic numerals overlined. Diagrams with dark red lines and black geometrical points or sometimes vice versa. Tables with dark red lines. Codex in very good condition; brownish spot in the upper third of the fore-edge and margins, probably caused by fire or water; upper outer part of pp. V–1 and lower outer part of pp. 296–I^a torn and restored. Dimensions: not given; 18 lines per page. Cardboard covers with marbled paper and dark-green, dark-brown and purple cloth; damage on the back cover in the form of two parallel horizontal lines, likely caused by attached strings. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: empty tabular frames (pp. I–IV, with some numbers inserted on p. I); Ptolemaica (pp. 1–269). Blank: pp. V, I^a–V^a.

Bibl.: —

pp. 1–⁠269	\p. 1\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \p. 269\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذا وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وانجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Taḥrīr al-Kitāb (p. 269). — Additional Titles: Taḥrīr-i Majisṭī (twice in blue pen on front doublure). — Index: preface, pp. 1–2; Book I, pp. 2–32; II, pp. 32–59; III, pp. 59–77; IV, pp. 77–97; V, pp. 97–122; VI, pp. 122–146; VII, pp. 146–170; VIII, pp. 170–195; IX, pp. 195–222; X, pp. 222–229; XI, pp. 229–245; XII, pp. 245–256; XIII, pp. 256–269. — Authorial colophon with the year of completion in abjad; undated scribal colophon with mention of the complete date of the autograph and partial date of the ancestor. Marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ; marginal annotations in the hand of the scribe, mainly in Books I–II, indicated with reference mark ‘12’. Annotations in at least one other, sloppier nastaʿlīq hand (e.g., pp. 41, 46).

pp. 1–⁠269

\p. 1\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \p. 269\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذا وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وانجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.

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

. — Title: Taḥrīr al-Kitāb (p. 269). — Additional Titles: Taḥrīr-i Majisṭī (twice in blue pen on front doublure). — Index: preface, pp. 1–2; Book I, pp. 2–32; II, pp. 32–59; III, pp. 59–77; IV, pp. 77–97; V, pp. 97–122; VI, pp. 122–146; VII, pp. 146–170; VIII, pp. 170–195; IX, pp. 195–222; X, pp. 222–229; XI, pp. 229–245; XII, pp. 245–256; XIII, pp. 256–269. — Authorial colophon with the year of completion in abjad; undated scribal colophon with mention of the complete date of the autograph and partial date of the ancestor. Marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ; marginal annotations in the hand of the scribe, mainly in Books I–II, indicated with reference mark ‘12’. Annotations in at least one other, sloppier nastaʿlīq hand (e.g., pp. 41, 46).