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St Petersburg, Institut Vostochnykh Rukopiseĭ, B 810⁢⁢

[Physical manuscript, inspected in February 2026; colour scans of selected pages.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

6 Ṣafar 1006/18 September 1697 (206r).

Or.:

copied by Hidāyat Allāh b. ʿInāyat Allāh al-Ḥusaynī l-Iṣfahānī (206r); collation with the autograph finished on 12 Dhū l-ḥijja 1007/6 July 1599 by the scribe (206r).

Prov.:

erased note in (presumably) Arabic, an erased ownership statement and two erased owner seals (all on f. 1r). Some magical symbols and a 4×4 magic square (associated with Jupiter) (1r, upper left corner). Note on the value of the book (with full diacritics): hādhā kitābun law yubāʿu bi-wazni-hi dhahaban la-kāna al-bāʾiʿu maghbūnan (1r); a partially legible ownership statement by Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad (1r). An Ottoman-Turkish note (206r). Russian note ‘Purchased in Astrabad on April 8/20, 1858, for three golden coins (chervontsy)’ (1r). From the collection of N. V. Khanykov; Latin inscription ‘Chanykoff’ (inside front cover). Current shelfmark in pencil, and above it the old shelfmark ‘614a’ in red pencil (1r); red stamp ‘Seal of the Asiatic Museum’ with the heraldic double‑headed eagle (1r); ex-libris sticker ‘Asiatic Museum of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. Ms. Or. B 810. Inv. 2431’ (inside front cover); sticker ‘614a’ (idem).

Cod.: paper, 206 ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in ink, from f. 163 onwards corrected in pencil; the original foliation omits 163 and ends at 207; an inserted slip of paper with a diagram and a gloss after f. 12; catchwords). A single very neat naskh hand, with shaddas, hamzas and tanwīns. Book and sections titles and abjad numerals in red. Mostly carefully drawn diagrams with red lines and black letters or vice versa, sometimes in the margins. Tables with red lines and frames. Codex in good condition; few folios loosening, beginning and end damaged by water. Dimensions: 25×15 cm, written area: 16.5×8 cm; 21 lines per page. Maroon-red leather covers with a frame and a central mandorla. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–206r). Blank: 206v.

Bibl.: Bernhard Dorn, ‘II. Bericht über eine vom wirkl. Staatsrath Chanykov dem asiatischen Museum aus Meschhed zugekommene Sendung’, (1858), pp. 492–496{p. 493 (no. 8)}; Anas B. Khalidov, Arabskie rukopisi Instituta Vostokovedeniya. Kratkii katalog, 2 vols, Moskva: Nauka, 1986, vol. 1, p. 458 (no. 9773); Mariam M. Rozhanskaya, Galina P. Matvievskaya and Irina O. Lyuter, Nasir ad-Din at-Tusi i ego trudy po matematike i astronomii v bibliotekakh Sankt-Peterburga, Kazani, Tashkenta i Dushanbe, Moscow: “Vostochnaya literatura” RAN, 1999, pp. 98–99.

1v–⁠206r	\1v\ أحمد لله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلِّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \206r\ لآقطع الكلام حامدَا لله تعالى على آلايه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Majisṭī (1r). — Index: preface, 1r–2r; Book I, 2r–24r; II, 24r–41r; III, 41r–55r; IV, 55r–73r; V, 73r–92r; VI, 92r–108v; VII, 108v–125v; VIII, 125v–143v; IX, 143v–166v; X, 166v–173r; XI, 173r–184v; XII, 184v–193r; XIII, 193r–206r. — Dated authorial colophon; dated scribal colophon; dated collation statement. — Abundant marginalia in a neat nastaʿlīq hand, presumably the scribe’s.

1v–⁠206r

\1v\ أحمد لله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلِّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \206r\ لآقطع الكلام حامدَا لله تعالى على آلايه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.

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

. — Title: Majisṭī (1r). — Index: preface, 1r–2r; Book I, 2r–24r; II, 24r–41r; III, 41r–55r; IV, 55r–73r; V, 73r–92r; VI, 92r–108v; VII, 108v–125v; VIII, 125v–143v; IX, 143v–166v; X, 166v–173r; XI, 173r–184v; XII, 184v–193r; XIII, 193r–206r. — Dated authorial colophon; dated scribal colophon; dated collation statement. — Abundant marginalia in a neat nastaʿlīq hand, presumably the scribe’s.