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Tehran, Madrasa-yi ʿĀlī-i Shahīd Muṭahharī (Sipahsālār), 593

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

main work finished on Sunday, 29 Rabīʿ al-thānī 1079/7 October 1668 (p. 241); first appendix and the short treatise dated 1079/1668-9 (pp. 15 and 249); the other two appendices undated.

Or.:

the observatory Saʿd-numāy in Yazd (p. 241); the main work copied by Muḥammad Samīʿ b. Muḥammad Shafīʿ (p. 241), all other works by the same hand; the short treatise includes the colophon of the exemplar, stating that it was copied from Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī’s hand (p. 249).

Prov.:

Persian ownership statement by Muḥammad Mḥhdī (sic), the son of ʿAlī Akbar Bīk Iṣfaḥānī (sic) (p. I); Persian notes about the sphericity of the Earth (p. I), on ratios and concerning number theory (p. II). A partially erased ownership statement mentioning Dār al-Salṭana Iṣfahān, with a rectangular seal (p. III); a statement of purchase by Mahdī (?) with the same rectangular seal and another one mentioning Nāṣr Allāh (p. 1). An oval seal of Ardishīr (p. 1). An Arabic and a Persian qāʿida with an onomantic device, an abjad value for a certain quantity, and a signature ‘Naṣīriyya …’ (p. 249). An overstamped rectangular seal (p. 1). A statement of purchase by Saʿīd al-ʿulamāʾ, dated 1254/1838-9, with an erased oval seal (p. III). Seal of the Minister of Sciences of Iran, dated 1276/1859-60 (p. III); a statement dated Rabīʿ al-awwal 1281/August-September 1864 by the Qajar prince and minister of science ʿAlī Qulī Mīrzā (d. 1298/1880), known as Iʿtiḍād al-Salṭana, with his rectangular seal dated 1278/1861-2 (p. III). A statement of endowment to the library of the Nāṣirī madrasa (the earlier name of the Sipahsālār madrasa), dated 15 Dhū l-ḥijja 1297/18 November 1880, with the large rectangular seal of Ḥājjī Mīrzā Ḥusayn Sipahsālār (d. 1298/1881), known as Mushīr al-Dawla, who bought the private library of Iʿtiḍād al-Salṭana and funded the endowment of the Sipahsālār mosque and madrasa, as well as an oval seal of the Nāṣirī madrasa dated 1297/1879-80 (1r).

Cod.: paper, III+249 pp. (paginated with even Hindu-Arabic numerals in pen near the top left of the text area on rectos; identical pagination with pencil in the top left of rectos, sometimes cut off from the scans; pp. 12–15 belong at the end of the manuscript, after the first part of work C.1.18a; catchwords). A single clear naskh hand; almost fully dotted ductus. Book headings in bold thuluth; sections introduced by bold overlined abjad numerals; book and section titles in red. Proposition numbers in overlined red abjad in the margins. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals in red and overlined; geometrical points in the text overlined in black. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or vice versa. Tables with red lines; a rosette (p. 133). An illuminated headpiece with floral motifs on a goldish and blue background at the beginning of the star catalogue (p. 141). Codex in good condition; water or moisture damage in the top and bottom margins, stronger towards the end of the manuscript but never hindering the reading; bottom half of pp. 1–2 restored. Dimensions: 27×12 cm, written area: 22×6 cm; 39 lines per page. Brown leather covers over cardboard; brown paper doublures with marble motif.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (pp. 1–11, 16–241); Ptolemaica (pp. 242–245, 12); Ptolemaica (pp. 13–15); Ptolemaica (pp. 246–247); Ptolemaica (pp. 247–249). Blank: none.

Bibl.: Muḥammad Taqī Dānishpazhūh and ʿAlī Naqī Munzawī, Fihrist-i Kitābkhāna-yi Sipahsālār, vol. III: Kutub-i khaṭṭī alif–thāʾ, Tehran: Chāpkhāna-yi Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 1962, pp. 71–72 and 344; FankhāMuṣṭafā Dirāyatī, Fihristgān-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Īrān (Fankhā), 45 vols, Tehran: Library, Museum and Documentation Center of The Islamic Consultative Assembly, 2011–2014 (1390–1393 H.S.), vol. VII, p. 214 (no. 37); vol. II, p. 376 (no. 2); LAMTMª José Parra, ‘A List of Arabic Manuscripts of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī’, Suhayl 16–17 (2018–2019), pp. 251–322, pp. 300–302 (no. 113).

pp. 1–⁠11, 16–⁠241	\p. 1\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجوا حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \p. 241\ فلنختم الكتاب. أقول وإذا وفّقني تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز 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 Kitāb al-Majisṭī (p. III). — Index: preface, p. 1; Book I, pp. 1–11, 16–31; II, pp. 31–51; III, pp. 51–69; IV, pp. 69–92; V, pp. 92–115; VI, pp. 115–134; VII, pp. 134–152; VIII, pp. 152–171; IX, pp. 171–194; X, pp. 194–201; XI, pp. 201–216; XII, pp. 216–226; XIII, pp. 226–241. — No authorial colophon; dated scribal colophon. Marginal corrections marked with ṣḥ, nuskha or kh. Some of al-Ṭūsī’s original annotations in the margins, introduced by the word hāshiya in red. Some annotations by a different hand.
pp. 242–⁠245, 12	\p. 242\ نريد أن نثبت اختلافات وقوع الخطوط في الأشكال التي تعرف منها أوضاع مراكز أفلاك عطارد في مسيراتها. [diagrams] \p. 244\ [table] — \p. 12\ [two tables]. = Risāla fī khtilāfāt wuqūʿ al-khuṭūṭ fī l-ashkāl (C.1.18a) . — Title: none. — Last leaf (together with the entire second appendix) falsely inserted in Book I of the Taḥrīr. — No colophon. No marginal corrections or glosses.
pp. 13–⁠15	\p. 13\ [title] ليكن ا ب ج د ه الحامل على مركز ز وقطر ا ب وح عليه نقطة خارجة عن المركز وح د د ح ه زاويتان عليها فإن كانتا متساويتين كانت قوس د ه الأوجيّة — \p. 15\ فقد تبيّن بالاستقراء ولم يلح لي طريق برهانيّ بعد إلى ذلك واللّه الموفّق. تمّت الرسالة والصلوة على محمّد وآله أجمعين. = Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt (C.1.18b) . — Title: Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt allatī taḥduthu bi-sabab al-khurūj ʿan al-markaz (p. 13). — Falsely inserted in Book I of the Taḥrīr after the last page of the first appendix. — Dated scribal colophon in red. No marginal corrections or annotations.
pp. 246–⁠247	\p. 246\ [title] ا كوكب الرأس وب كوكب الرجل وفي المجسطي لأوّل سنة من ملك أنطونيس طول ا  و م وعرضه ز ك — \p. 247\ فخرج الطول زائدًا على ما أخذه بطلميوس بسبع وعشرين دقيقة والعرض زائدًا على ما أخذه بخمس وعشرين دقيقة. فعرفنا أنّه قد تساهل 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. — No colophon. No marginal corrections or glosses.
pp. 247–⁠249	\p. 247\ [title] يقول أفضل المتأخّرين أحوج خلق اللّه تعالى محمود بن مسعود الشيرازيّ ختم اللّه له بالحسنى إنّ كلّ زمانين متساويين فإنّ وسط الشمس وهو متساو فيهما بالضرورة لائح إمّا أن تكون أدوارًا تامّة أو مع قوسين متساويتين إمّا لا اختلاف لهما — \p. 249\ وظهر ممّا ذكرنا أنّه لو اشترط في المدد المطلوبة الشروط التي ذكرها القدماء في مسير القمر لم نحتج إلى شئ ممّا ذكره بطلميوس من التحزّر والاستقصاء هذا. وأمّا الاستقصاء في الزمان الدوريّ فنحتاج إلى بسط قول بجمعه رسالة. = Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Kayfiyyat taḥṣīl al-zamān al-dawrī li-l-qamar (C.1.26) . — Title: Faṣl fī kayfiyya taḥṣīl al-zamān al-dawrī li-l-qamar ʿalā mā dhakara-hu Baṭlamyūs fī ṣadr al-rābiʿa min al-Majisṭī. — Colophon of the exemplar, stating it was copied from al-Shīrāzī’s hand, who wrote the treatise in honour of al-Ṭūsī, followed by the year in red ‍abjad. No marginal corrections or glosses.