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St Petersburg, Institut Vostochnykh Rukopiseĭ, A 1256⁢⁢

[Physical manuscript, inspected in February 2026.]

Single incomplete work: Arabic. Date:

a Friday in Ṣafar 891/February-March 1486 (152r).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

round ownership seal of Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn b. Muḥammad Qāḍī-Zāda (1r). From the collection of the Orientalist Vladimir A. Ivanov (1886–1970), purchased in Bukhara in 1915. Stamp ‘Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Inventory. 1935. No. 1434’ (Ir); various stamps of the Manuscripts Department of the Institute.

Cod.: paper, I+152 ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil mostly in the upper left corner of rectos, with three loose sheets inserted at the end; originally foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in black ink (186 and 187 in pencil) starting from 24 on f. 1, skipping 41–49, 89, 113, and 114, and ending with 187 on f. 152; catchwords). A single very neat nastaʻlīq hand, with dots only rarely omitted and some shaddas. Book and section titles in red at the same size as the text; abjad numerals in red. Mostly carefully drawn diagrams with red lines and black letters or vice versa; some diagrams in the margins. Text in frames of black, gold, and blue ink. Tables with lines and frames in red. Some pages illuminated with floral ornaments in gold and blue (59v, 74r, 103v, 142v). Codex in acceptable condition; minor damage by insects; few folios loosening, ff. 143–152 restored. Dimensions: 20.5×12.5 cm, written area: 14×6.5 cm; 25 lines per page. Green leather covers with a frame and a large central mandorla with two pendants. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1r–152r); notes in Russian cursive, seemingly unrelated to the main work, written in pencil on three smaller loose sheets of different paper (after f. 152).

Bibl.: Victor Rosen, Les manuscrits arabes de l’Institut des Langues Orientales, Saint-Pétersbourg: Eggers, 1877, p. 120 (no. 90); Anas B. Khalidov, Arabskie rukopisi Instituta Vostokovedeniya. Kratkii katalog, 2 vols, Moskva: Nauka, 1986, p. 458 (no. 9772); 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. 95–96.

1r–⁠152r	\|\| \1r\في المقالة الثانية وأنا وضعت الاظلال الأولى للقسيّ المتفاضلة تصنيفًا إلى ثمن الدائرة مقدّرة بأجزاء القطر وكسورها في جدول ما تمّمت الربع — \152r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ قد وفّقني الله تعالى لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا لله تعالى 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 li-Baṭlamyūs al-Qalūdī (Ir). — Index: Book I, 1r–3v (only the last part); II, 3v–19r (ten folios missing); III, 19r–31r; IV, 31r–44r; V, 44r–58v; VI, 58v–71v; VII, 71v–84v (two folios missing); VIII, 84v–101v; IX, 101v–126r; X, 126r–129v; XI, 129v–137v; XII, 137v–143r; XIII, 143r–152r. — Dated scribal colophon; two additional, sloppy and hardly legible lines in red, apparently by the scribe. — Massive marginalia by a similar, but looser taʿlīq hand.

1r–⁠152r

 || \1r\في المقالة الثانية وأنا وضعت الاظلال الأولى للقسيّ المتفاضلة تصنيفًا إلى ثمن الدائرة مقدّرة بأجزاء القطر وكسورها في جدول ما تمّمت الربع — \152r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ قد وفّقني الله تعالى لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا لله تعالى 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 li-Baṭlamyūs al-Qalūdī (Ir). — Index: Book I, 1r–3v (only the last part); II, 3v–19r (ten folios missing); III, 19r–31r; IV, 31r–44r; V, 44r–58v; VI, 58v–71v; VII, 71v–84v (two folios missing); VIII, 84v–101v; IX, 101v–126r; X, 126r–129v; XI, 129v–137v; XII, 137v–143r; XIII, 143r–152r. — Dated scribal colophon; two additional, sloppy and hardly legible lines in red, apparently by the scribe. — Massive marginalia by a similar, but looser taʿlīq hand.