PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Qom, Kitābkhāna-yi Muʾassasa-yi Ḥaḍrat-i 
Āyat Allāh al-ʿUẓmā Burūjirdī, 109

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]
Single work: Arabic.  Date:

finished on 21 Dhū l-qaʿda 1096/​19 October 1685 (155v).

  Or.:

unknown; unknown copyist.

  Prov.:

endowment statement in Persian by Ḥajj al-Ḥaramayn al-Sharīfayn Ḥajjī ʿAbd al-Nabī in favour of the trust of Muḥammad Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad Maʿṣūm al-Ḥusaynī, dated Dhū l-qaʿda 1120/​January-February 1709, with an oval seal dated 1134/​1721-2 (1r). Library stamp with accession number 454 (front cover); the library was founded by the Shia scholar Āyat Allāh Sayyid Ḥusayn Ṭabāṭabāʾī Burūjirdī (1875–1961) shortly before his death.

Cod.: paper, I+155+Ia ff. (unfoliated; catchwords). A black nastaʿlīq hand; mostly dotted ductus with elongated ascenders, few vowel marks, hamzas and shaddas only in the beginning. Book headings sometimes in red; catch titles for most books in the margins; section beginnings in red and introduced by abjad numerals and from IV.7 onwards by written-out ordinal numbers; propositions sometimes indicated by abjad numerals in the margins. Abjad numerals mostly in red or overlined in red; Persian variants of Hindu-Arabic numerals mostly in red. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points, sometimes vice versa; two unfinished diagrams (19r), some reserved spaces (e.g., 33v, 73r). Tables with red lines, frequently incomplete or empty (e.g., 8v, 25v–26r, 118r). Codex in good condition; some water damage, some stains, some margins and folds restored (e.g., ff. 1–13, 122–123). Dimensions: 23.5×13 cm; 21 to 25 lines per page.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–155v). Blank: Iv, 78v (except for a catchword), Iar–v.

Bibl.: Aḥmad Ḥusaynī Ishkawarī, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Muʾassasa-yi Ḥaḍrat-i Āyat Allāh al-ʿUẓmā Burūjirdī, vol. I: (1–400), Qom: Majmaʿ-i Dhakhāʾir-i Islāmī, 2005 (1384 H.S.), p. 73; 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. 215 (no. 44); 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, p. 288 (no. 76).

1v–⁠155v

\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \155v\ فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم الأنبياء والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.

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

. — Title: none. — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–v, 122r–123v, 3r–15r; II, 15r–28v; III, 28v–38v; IV, 39r–41v, 116r–118v, 42r–48v; V, 48v–63r; VI, 63r–74v; VII, 74v–91r; VIII, 91r–107v; IX, 107v–115v, 119r–121v, 124r–128v; X, 128v–132r; XI, 132r–141r; XII, 141r–146v; XIII, 146v–155v. — Dated scribal colophon. Marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated with siglum ṣḥ; marginal annotations in the hand of the scribe, mainly in Books I and II, some with siglum nẓ (e.g., 9r, 17v) or reference mark ‘12’ (e.g., 8r, 16r).