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St Petersburg, Institut Vostochnykh Rukopiseĭ, D 172⁢⁢

[Physical manuscript, inspected in February 2026.]

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

1262/1845-6 (77v).

Or.:

unknown; unknown copyist. Copied from an exemplar finished on 6 Muḥarram 722/25 January 1322 in Soltaniyeh by Ḥamzat b. ʿAlī b. Ḥamza al-Qazwīnī l-Shahaqī (sic), known as Saʿd al-Khurasānī (73r), i.e., from MS London, BL, IO Islamic 1148.

Prov.:

two French notes in pencil: ‘eu 13 mekale’ and ‘D’après Ishak ibn Djouneid corrigé par Sabit’ (Ir). Ex-libris sticker ‘Asiatic Museum of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R.’ (inside front cover). Stamp ‘Library of the Educational Department of Oriental Languages, Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ (1r, 77v). Librarian’s note in Russian: ‘D 172 inv. 8839’ (Ir).

Cod.: paper with watermarks ‘Gior Magnani’, II+77+III^a ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil on every tenth recto; catchwords). A single very neat naskh hand, with shaddas, hamzas and tanwīns, but dots sometimes omitted. Book and section titles in red or black, sometimes omitted (occasionally supplemented in pencil). Text framed in red. Very carefully drawn diagrams with red lines and black letters. Tables with lines in red and letters in black and red; some tables omitted or incomplete. Codex in very good condition. Dimensions: 30×20 cm, written area: 22.5×11.5 cm; 33 lines per page. Maroon-red leather covers with frame and central mandorla with two pendants above and two pendants below. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–73r); Ptolemaica (73r–v); Ptolemaica (73v–74v, 76r–v, 75v); an extract from section XIII.5 of al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī, including the table of planetary latitudes (75r); Ptolemaica (77r–v). Blank: I^ar–III^av.

Bibl.: Victor Rosen, Les manuscrits arabes de l’Institut des Langues Orientales, Saint-Pétersbourg: Eggers, 1877, p. 120 (no. 188); Anas B. Khalidov, Arabskie rukopisi Instituta Vostokovedeniya. Kratkii katalog, 2 vols, Moskva: Nauka, 1986, vol. 1, p. 458 (no. 9774); 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. 96–97.

1v–⁠73r	\1v\ مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حُسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \73r\ 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: Kitāb al-Majisṭī al-mansūb ilā Baṭlamyūs (1r). — Additional titles: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (1r, under the above title); Kitāb al-Majisṭī al-Mansūb ilā Baṭlamyūs and Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (Ir, in pencil). — Index: preface, 1v; Book I, 1v–9r; II, 9r–17v; III, 17v–22r; IV, 22r–24v; V, 24v–31v; VI, 31v–38r; VII, 38r–44r; VIII, 44r–50r; IX, 50r–59r; X, 59r–61r; XI, 61r–65v; XII, 65v–68v, XIII, 68v–73r. — Dated colophon of the exemplar. Scarce marginalia written by the scribe.
73r–⁠v	\73r\ [title] ا كوكب الرأس وب كوكب الرجل وفي المجسطي لأوّل سنة من ملك انطونينس طول ا  و م وعرضه ز ك — \73v\ والعرض زائدًا على ما أخذ بخمس وعشرين دقيقة فعرفنا أنّه قد يساهل فيه وعمل على التقريب دون التحقيق. والله أعلم بالحقيقة. = Fī Tashakkul al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (C.1.18c) . — Title: Fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī. — No marginal annotations.
73v–⁠74v, 76r–⁠v, 75v	\73v\ نريد أن نثبت الاختلاف وقوع الخطوط في الأشكال التي نعرف منها أوضاع مراكز أفلاك عطارد ي مسيراتها ومقادير أبعاد مراكز التدويرعن مركز العالم — ويكون الأشكال بحسب مسير لمركز ما بحركة مبتدئًا من الأوج إلى التوالي هكذا. [diagrams] \74v\ [tables]. = Risāla fī khtilāfāt wuqūʿ al-khuṭūṭ fī l-ashkāl (C.1.18a) . — Title: none. — Twenty diagrams (73v–74r) and three tables (74v, 76r–v, 75v), on f. 76r unfinished.
77r–⁠v	\77r\ في معرفة الاختلافات التي تحدث بسبب الخروج من المركز ليكن الحد الحامل على مركز روح عليه نقطة خارجة عن المركز — \77v\ فقد تبيّن بالاستقراء ولم يلج لي طريق برهانيّ بعد إلى ذلك. = Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt (C.1.18b) . – Title: none. — Brief scribal colophon with the year of copying in Hindu-Arabic numerals. No marginal annotations.