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St Petersburg, Institut Vostochnykh Rukopiseĭ, C 614⁢⁢

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

Collection of a main work and three short appendices: Arabic. Date:

Wednesday, 11 Ramaḍān 733/26 May 1333 (179r).

Or.:

copied in Cairo (179r); unknown scribe.

Prov.:

ownership note by al-imām al-ʿUmarī Salmān, master of jurisprudence (mulk al-fiqh) at the ʿUmarī Mosque in the citadel of Aleppo (1r, in large letters). Persian note of registration by a librarian, mentioning the title of the work and the physical properties of the manuscript, dated 2 Jumādā l-ūlā 1105/30 December 1693, above a partially legible hexagonal seal ‘Sulaymān …’ (184v). Persian note of registration dated Ṣafar 1115/June-July 1703, with a faded seal (184v); Persian note of registration dated 8 Dhū l-qaʿda 1127/5 November 1715, above an oval seal with a Persian verse praising ʿAlī (184v); Persian note of registration including the title of the work and dated Rabīʿ al-thānī 1142/October-November 1729, above a small rectangular seal ‘ʿabdu-hu Aḥmad’ (1r); owner’s statement dated Jumādā l-thāniya 1151/September-October 1738, with a faded rectangular seal (1r); Persian note of registration dated Rabīʿ al-thānī 1160/April-May 1747, under a rectangular seal with a Quranic verse and date 1153/1740-41 (1r). Note in French: ‘A Isféhan, le 28 décembre 1755, à la latitude de 32°45ʹ. – Au Kodja Nassireddin-Toussi de ce siècle, mon intime ami M. Lemonnier professeur en astronomie au collège royal, de l’académie des sciences, de la société royale etc. de la part de son très-humble et très-obéissan serviteur, Simon de Verville, math.’ (1r); Jacques-Thomas Simon de Vierville, initially a physician in Rouen, was sent to Persia by King Louis XV in 1751 in order to gather intelligence and later converted to Islam as Muḥammad Riḍā Ḥakīm; Pierre Charles Le Monnier (1715–1799) was a well-known French astronomer. Acquired in 1819 from the French orientalist Jean-François Rousseau. Red library seals ‘Seal of the Asiatic Museum’ with the heraldic double‑headed eagle (1r [twice], 184v).

Cod.: paper, I+184 ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil on every tenth recto, additionally f. 182 numbered 180 and f. 184 numbered 182; no catchwords). A single black naskh hand; somewhat poorly dotted ductus with very rare diacritics. Book and section beginnings and abjad numerals in red. Very carefully drawn diagrams with red lines and black letters, sometimes with black lines and red letters. Tables with lines in red and data in red and black. Codex in good condition; minor damage by insects and water. Dimensions: 33×24 cm, written area: 26×18 cm; 24 lines per page. Ochre leather covers with a frame; pastedown and flyleaf of different paper with a watermark consisting of a small crescent within a large one. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–179r); Ptolemaica (179v–182v); Ptolemaica (183r–185r); Ptolemaica (185v–186r). Blank: Ir–v.

Bibl.: Jean-Baptiste L. J. Rousseau, Catalogue d’une collection de 500 manuscrits orientaux, Paris: Le Normant, 1817, p. 43; Anas B. Khalidov, Arabskie rukopisi Instituta Vostokovedeniya. Kratkii katalog, 2 vols, Moskva: Nauka, 1986, vol. I, p. 458; 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. 97–98.

1v–⁠179r	\1v\ الحمد لله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو أحسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \179r\ فلأقطع العلام (كذا) حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع الأوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . – Title: Kitāb Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī wa-huwa al-dustūr al-ʿaẓīm li-aṣḥāb ṣināʿat al-hayʾa wa-l-tanjīm lā yafūtu-hu maqṣid min dhālika wa-lā yunāʿī-hi (sic) tartīb jadwal wa-lā yafūtu-hu faṣl mushkil (1r), followed by jamaʿa al-imām al-ʿallāma awḥad al-fann khwājā Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī in a different hand. — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–22r; II, 22r–37v; III, 36v–50v; IV, 50v–65r; V, 65r–82v; VI, 82v–97r; VII, 97r–108v; VIII, 108v–121v; IX, 121v–140r; X, 140r–145v; XI, 145v–157v; XII, 157v–165v; XIII, 165v–179r. — Dated scribal colophon; a note of collation.
179v–⁠182v	\179v\ نريد أن نثبت الاختلاف وقوع الخطوط في الأشكال التي نعرف منها أوضاع مراكز أفلاك عطارد في مسيراتها — ويكون الأشكال بحسب مسير المركز الحركة الوسطى مبتدئًا من الأوج إلى التوالي هكذا. [diagrams] \181v\ [tables]. = Risāla fī khtilāfāt wuqūʿ al-khuṭūṭ fī l-ashkāl (C.1.18a) . — Title: none. — Scarce marginal notes and additions in the same hand and with the same ink.
183r–⁠185r	\183r\ [title] ليكن ا ب ج د ه الحامل على مركز ز وقطر ا ب وح عليه نقطة خارجة عن المركز — \185r\ فقد تبيّن بالاستقراء ولم ىلح لي (كذا) طريق برهانيّ بعد إلى ذلك والله الموفّق. تمّت رسالة بحمد الله تعالى وحسن توفيقه. = Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt (C.1.18b) . — Title: Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt allatī yaḥduthu bi-sabab al-khurūj ʿan al-markaz (183r). — No marginal corrections or annotations.
185v–⁠186r	\185v\ [title] ا كوكب الرأس وب كوكب الرجل وفي المجسطي لأوّل سنة من ملك أنطونين طول ا  و م وعرضه ز ك — \186r\ فخرج الطول زائدًا عمّا أخذه بطلميوس بسبع وعشرين دقيقة والعرض زائدًا على ما أخذه بخمس وعشرين دقيقة فعرفنا أنّه قد يساهل فيه وعمل على التقريب دون التحقيق والله أعلم. = Fī Tashakkul al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (C.1.18c) . — Title: Fī Tashakkul al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (183v). — No marginal corrections or annotations.