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Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, ar. 4731

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Two works and some notes: Persian and Arabic. Date:

Ptolemaic work copied in the middle of Rabīʿ al-awwal 671/October 1272 (61r); second work finished on 17 Shaʿbān 672/26 February 1274 (108r).

Or.:

both works copied by Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā l-Maʿālī l-Ḥusaynī (61r, 108r), the second work in Maragha (108r). Mention of the date of completion of the Ptolemaic work (wa-faragha ʿan taṣnīfi-hi) as 9 Jumādā l-ūlā 670/13 December 1271 (61r), the same date as given in MS Florence, BML, Or. 446.

Prov.:

undated Ottoman ownership statement by Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad Amīn Ḍiyāʾ with a note in Ottoman Turkish on al-Ṭūsī (1r). Table of contents of the Ptolemaic work with reference to the red foliation (2v–4r); the dates of completion and copying of this work by the same hand (8v). Acquired by the library on 22 July 1886 from Mr. Barré de Lancy (BnF, personal communication); Auguste Louis Fridolphe Barré de Lancy (1834–1924) was a member of the French foreign service in the Ottoman Empire. Round library stamps (7r, 8v, 9r, 109v and II^av). Old shelfmark: ‘Supplém. arabe 2576’ (1r). Accession no.: ‘R.C. 7853’ (2r).

Cod.: 109+II^a ff. (ff. 1–8 are later additions) (library foliation with Arabic-European numerals mostly in the lower left corner of rectos, from f. 44 onwards vertically with respect to the text area; an earlier foliation of the Ptolemaic work with red Hindu-Arabic numerals in the upper left corner of versos; no catchwords). Main hand: a rather sloppy naskh with minor tendency to nastaʿlīq; almost fully dotted ductus with many vowel marks, hamzas and shaddas in the Arabic parts. Fragments in three different hands (7v, 108v–109r). Headings of verba and commentaries in the Ptolemaic work highlighted in red, omitted for the last three verba; text of the verba mostly in large bold. Book and section headings in the second work in red; tables in the second work with red lines. Codex in good condition; water damage throughout, sometimes affecting the readability; small holes in the text area of ff. 9 and 101–109; smudges (43r, 44r). Dimensions: 18×10 cm; 25–26 lines per page, 38 lines on f. 109r. Vinaceous leather covers with a goldish frame, rule-borders and small corner-pieces. Type III binding, Persian safīna.

Cont.: astronomy, astrology. — Index: table of contents by a later hand (2v–4r, see above); Persian note on astrological lots, possibly in the same hand as the preceding table of contents (7v); Ptolemaica (9v–61r); Kūshyār b. Labbān, Kitāb al-Madkhal fī ṣināʿat aḥkām al-nujūm (61v–108r); a horoscope in written form said to be for Mūsā b. ʿImrān (Moses) (108v, upper third); anonymous treatise on prognostications for the years of the Turkish calendar (aḥkām-i sāl-i turkān) (108v–109r, in Persian, incomplete); an earlier table of contents of the codex, including several works not currently contained in it (II^av). Blank: 1v, 4v (except for empty tabular frames), 5r (except for a rule-border), 5v–6v, 8r, 109v (except for some crossed-out frames), I^ar–II^ar.

Bibl.: Edgar Blochet, Catalogue des manuscrits arabes des nouvelles acquisitions (1884–1924), Paris: Leroux, 1925, p. 11; George Vajda, Notices de manuscrits arabes (Arabe 4600–5114.) (unpublished typescript, MS arabe 7304/4), Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1940–1969, pp. 46–48. — BnF Archives et manuscrits: https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc324396.

9v–⁠61r	\9v\ چنين گويد مخدوم مولى المعظّم الصاحب الأعظم علّامة العالم مفخر بني آدم ملك الحكماء سلطان المحقّقين أفضل المتأخّرين نصير الحقّ والملّة والدين— \61r\ اینست تمامى كلمات كتاب ثمره و تفسير آن و در آخر كتاب باين عبارت آورده‌اند تمّ كتاب الثمره المسمّى بالروميّة انطرومطا ومعناه المائة الكلمة. واللّه أعلم بالصواب. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Tafsīr Kitāb al-Thamara (Arabic–Persian version) (C.3.4) . — Title: none. — Index: preface, 9v; Pseudo-Ptolemy’s introduction, 9v–10r; commentary on the introduction, 10r–v; 102 verba intertwined with the commentary, 10v–61r. — Mention of the date of completion of the work; dated scribal colophon. Marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ, on one occasion erased (12r); some marginal annotations in a hand similar to the scribe’s (e.g., 32r, 32v); few annotations possibly by the author of the table of contents on ff. 2v–4r (e.g., 11r, 12r).

9v–⁠61r

\9v\ چنين گويد مخدوم مولى المعظّم الصاحب الأعظم علّامة العالم مفخر بني آدم ملك الحكماء سلطان المحقّقين أفضل المتأخّرين نصير الحقّ والملّة والدين— \61r\ اینست تمامى كلمات كتاب ثمره و تفسير آن و در آخر كتاب باين عبارت آورده‌اند تمّ كتاب الثمره المسمّى بالروميّة انطرومطا ومعناه المائة الكلمة. واللّه أعلم بالصواب.

= Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Tafsīr Kitāb al-Thamara (Arabic–Persian version) (C.3.4)

. — Title: none. — Index: preface, 9v; Pseudo-Ptolemy’s introduction, 9v–10r; commentary on the introduction, 10r–v; 102 verba intertwined with the commentary, 10v–61r. — Mention of the date of completion of the work; dated scribal colophon. Marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ, on one occasion erased (12r); some marginal annotations in a hand similar to the scribe’s (e.g., 32r, 32v); few annotations possibly by the author of the table of contents on ff. 2v–4r (e.g., 11r, 12r).