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Tehran, Madrasa-yi Marwī, 321

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

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

undated; 8^th/14^th c. (Ustadī).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

an inscription ‘ṣ. 34’ (Ir). A list of important scholars in various fields; a note on the ‘Middle Books’ (Mutawassiṭāt) ; a note on ratios with a simple diagram; a quotation from Archimedes’ On the Sphere on ratios, with a simple diagram (all on f. 1r). Statement of transfer with the name crossed out; statement of purchase with the name crossed out; statement of transfer to ʿAbd al-Wāsiʿ …jānī, with his small oval seal, apparently dated (all on f. 1r). A religious rectangular seal with illegible name (1r); several erased seals and statements (1r). Stamps ‘Kitābkhāna (?)-yi dawlatī-yi wizārat-i maʿārif’ (State Library of the Ministry of Education) dated 1302/1884-5 (?) (1r, fainted on Ir). Shelfmark ‘sh 321 ustādī’ (Ir). The Marwī madrasa was founded by the wealthy notable Ḥājj Muḥammad Ḥusayn Khān Marwī in 1231/1816.

Cod.: paper, I+102 ff. (unfoliated; small slip of paper written by the scribe inserted after f. 15; occasional catchwords). A single clear naskh hand with a light tendency to nastaʿlīq; mostly dotted ductus, no shaddas or hamzas. Book numbers (written out) and section numbers (overlined abjad) in bold black; book and section titles in red. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numbers 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 (53r). Folio 89 by a different rubricator. Codex in good condition; water stains and some mold in the bottom margins throughout; covers significantly worn, binding becoming loose. Green-brown leather covers with a mandorla with pendants and two double frames; spine enforced with cloth. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–99v). Blank: Iv.

Bibl.: Riḍā Ustādī, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Madrasa-yi Marwī-yi Tihrān (hizār wa panjāh nuskha), Tehran: Kitābkhāna-yi Madrasa-yi Marwī, 1992 [1371 H.S.], p. 83; 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. 212 (no. 3); 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. 289 (no. 87).

1v–⁠99v	\1v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \99v\ 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 al-Baṭlīmūs (sic) al-ḥakīm (Ir, followed by a price). — Additional titles: Majisṭī (1r); Almageste de Ptolémée … … ouvrage tres savante et tres … (Ir, in pencil); Almageste de Ptolémée (1r, in pencil). — Index: preface, 1v; Book I, 1v–12v; II, 12v–20v; III, 20v–27r; IV, 27r–35v; V, 35v–45r; VI, 45r–53r; VII, 53r–59v; VIII, 59v–67r; IX, 67r–80r; X, 80r–82v; XI, 82v–89v; XII, 89v –94r; XIII, 94r–99v. — No authorial or scribal colophon. Marginal corrections and additions by the scribe, some indicated with ṣḥ. Extensive glosses, especially in Books I to IX, by various hands, some marked with ʿAbd or ʿAbd al-ʿAlī.
100r–⁠101r	\100r\ نريد أن نثبت اختلافات وقوع الخطوط في الأشكال التي تعرف منها أوضاع مراكز أفلاك عطارد في مسيراتها — وتكون الأشكال بحسب مسير المركز بالحركة الوسطى مبتدئًا من الأوج إلى التوالي هكذا. [diagrams] \100v\ [table] \101r\ [two tables]. = Risāla fī khtilāfāt wuqūʿ al-khuṭūṭ fī l-ashkāl (C.1.18a) . — Title: none. — No marginal corrections or glosses.
101r–⁠102r	\101r\ [title] ليكن ا ب ج د ه الحامل على مركز ز وقطر ا ب وح عليه نقطة خارجة عن المركز وج ح د د م ح ه (كذا) زاويتان عليها فإن كانتا متساويتين كانت قوس د ه الأوجيّة — \102r\ فقد تبيّن بالاستقراء ولم يَلُجْ لي طريق برهانيّ بعد إلى ذلك واللّه الموفّق. تمّت الرسالة بعون الله تعـ〈ـالي〉. = Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt (C.1.18b) . — Title: Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt allatī yaḥduthu bi-sabab al-khurūj ʿan al-markaz (101r). — Seven diagrams. No marginal corrections or glosses.
102v	\102v\ [title] ا كوكب الرأس وب كوكب الرجل وفي المجسطي لأوّل سنة من ملك أنطونينس طول ا  و م وعرضه ز ك — ولمعرفة ه ط ضربنا خطّ ه ي وهو ج كح في ج ز وهو د نا حصل ىو مح مح وقسّمناه على ا ز 〈وهو〉 ح مح حصل ا نه وهو ه ط عرض الزهرة. ولمعرفة ي ط ضربنا ا ج وهو ز ك في ه ي وهو ج كح\|\|  = 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 (102v). — End missing. One diagram. No marginal corrections or glosses.