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Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, Ar. 3637

[Black-and-white microfilm scans of the textblock; colour photographs of the covers and selected double pages.]

Collection of a main work, five short appendices, and a map: Arabic. Date:

Tuesday, 10 Shawwāl 691/23 September 1292 (main hand, 164v); collation finished on 13 Shawwāl 691/26 September 1292 (164v).

Or.:

Shiraz; copied by Abū l-Maḥāmid Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Turkistānī l-Arzawānī in the Madrasa ʿAḍūdiyya (except for the last treatise); copied from a copy in the hand of Badr al-Milla wa-l-Dīn al-Malaṭī from a copy in the hand of Quṭb al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Shīrāzī (d. 710/1311) from an autograph (164v, note upside down). The copy by the otherwise unknown al-Malaṭī was probably done when Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī was appointed judge of Malatya in the early 680s/1280s; al-Turkistānī also copied MS Istanbul, Süleymaniye, Ayasofya 2583 of al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr.

Prov.:

a partially damaged statement with date Ramaḍān 601/April-May 1205 (IIr). A Persian poem in red (IIr). An English note in pencil stating that ‘this title page is in no way connected with the book’ (IIr). An illegible red tughra, apparently written over a seal (167v). Old shelfmarks: ‘1502’ in ghubār numerals; ‘637’ and ‘745’ in Arabic-European numerals (front doublure).

Cod.: paper, II+171 ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil on every fifth recto; catchwords). Main hand: a single clear black formal naskh, almost fully undotted and without vowels. Initial basmala and some table headings in a sort of tawqīʿ musalsal with some round Kufic elements written with a broad pen; book headings in thuluth. Section headings, abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals, few glosses, and geometrical points throughout the body text in red. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points, occasionally the other way around. Tables with red lines. The last two small works in two different almost fully undotted naskh hands, the second of these with ligatures. Codex in very good condition; stains and some damage to the first and last pages, partially restored; significant wear to the covers. Dimensions: 18.6×13 cm; 25 lines per page. Very old brown leather covers with a large round centre-piece with geometrical motifs and a frame with corner pieces, all blind-tooled; spine and fore-edge flap reinforced with light-brown leather strips; dark-brown leather doublures with a frame. Type II binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: a list of intervals (fawt, pl. afwāt), sigla and dates in the year 1213/1788 (Ir). A title Kitāb al-Kāmil li-l-... shaykh Sirāj al-Dīn Sakkākī ʿalay-hi al-raḥma wa-l-riḍwān fī ʿilm al-ṭilismāt al-ʿajība wa-l-gharība above a table with the names of dozens of talismans in red (IIr); Ptolemaica (1v–164v); Ptolemaica (165r–166r); Ptolemaica (166r–167r); Ptolemaica (167r–167v); Ptolemaica (168v and 171r); a schematic map showing the coastlines of the Horn of Africa, the Red Sea, the Arab Peninsula and the Persian Gulf (169v–170r); Ptolemaica (170v and 169r); a fainted seal and a fainted drawing (171v). Blank: IIv, 145r, 168r.

Bibl.: Arthur J. Arberry, The Chester Beatty Library. A Handlist of the Arabic Manuscripts, Volume III: MSS. 3501 to 3750, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co., 1958, p. 52; François Charette, Descriptions of Arabic Scientific Manuscripts in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin (unpublished draft version), Dublin: Chester Beatty Library, c. 2010, pp. 61–66; 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. 266–267 (no. 22) and 311.

1v–⁠164v	\1v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية. وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \164v\ 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, taṣnīf al-ḥakīm al-kāmil al-mukammil afḍal al-mutaqaddimīn wa-l-mutaʾakhkhirīn qudwat al-sālikīn al-muʿallim al-bāḥith Naṣīr al-milla wa-l-dīn al-Ṭūsī qaddasa Allāhu rūḥa-hu (1r). — Additional title: Kitāb Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2v–20v; II, 21v–35r; III, 35v–48r; IV, 48v–64r; V, 64v–82r; VI, 82v–94r; VII, 94v–102r; VIII, 102v–112r; IX, 112v–130r; X, 130v–135r; XI, 135v–144v; XII, 145v–153r; XIII, 153v–164v. — Dated scribal colophon; note mentioning the exemplar. Substantial glosses throughout, mostly of a highly technical tenor and sometimes making up small super-commentaries. Al-Turkistānī supplements his colophon with a note (164v, bottom margin) indicating that he marked the origin of the glosses with sigla and that those marked with a hāʾ mulawwaza (ھ) were found in his base manuscript; it is therefore likely that these glosses stem at least partially from Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī. Minor additional glosses in red. Marginal corrections consistently indicated with siglum ṣḥ.
165r–⁠166r	\165r\ 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 هكذى. [diagrams] \165v\ [tables] = Risāla fī khtilāfāt wuqūʿ al-khuṭūṭ fī l-ashkāl (C.1.18a) . — Title: none. — No glosses.
166r–⁠167r	\166r\ [title] ليكن ا ب ج د ه الحامل على مركز ز وقطر ا ب وح عليه نقطة خارجة عن المركز — \167r\ فقد تبيّن بالاستقراء ولم يلج لي طريق برهانيّ بعد إلى ذلك. والله الموفّق. تمّت الرسالة بعون الله وتعالى. = 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 (166r). — No glosses.
167r–⁠167v	\167r\ [title] ا كوكب الرأس وب كوكب زحل وفي المجسطي لأوّل سنة من ملك أنطونينس طول ا  و م وعرضه ز ك — \167v\ والعرض زائدًا على ما أخذه بخمس وعشرين دقيقة. فعرفنا أنّه قد تساهل فيه على التقريب دون التحقيق. = 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 (167r). — No glosses; the value of the sine of 1 degree to seven sexagesimal places is written below the explicit by a different hand.
168v, 171r	\168v\ [title] كلّ زمانين متساويين فإنّ وسط الشمس وهو متساو فيهما بالضرورة لا يخلو إمّا أن تكون أدوارًا تامّة أو مع قوسين متساويتين إمّا لا اختلاف لهما — \171r\ وأمّا الاستقصاء في الزمان الدوريّ فنحتاج إلى بسط قول بجمعها رسالة. = Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Kayfiyyat taḥṣīl al-zamān al-dawrī li-l-qamar (C.1.26) . — Title: {Faṣl} fī Kayfiyyat taḥṣīl al-zamān al-dawrī li-l-qamar (168v). — This work is the same as the next. Both works are disorderly bound, since the folios of this work and the next are exchanged: the first page of this work (168v) is followed by the last of the next, while the second page of this work (171r) follows the first of the next. The pages are additionally numbered 1 and 2 with Arabic-European numerals in the outer upper corners. This treatise is written by the fully undotted naskh hand of al-Turkistānī. No corrections or glosses.
170v, 169r Images	\170v\ [title] كلّ زمانين متساويين فإنّ وسط الشمس وهو متساو فيها بالضرورة لا يخلو إمّا أن تكون أدوارًا تامّة أو مع قوسين متساويين إمّا لا اختلاف لهما — \169r\ وأمّا الاستقصاء في الزمان الدوريّ فنحتاج إلى بسط قول بجمعه في رسالة. = Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Kayfiyyat taḥṣīl al-zamān al-dawrī li-l-qamar (C.1.26) . — Title: Faṣl fī Kayfiyyat taḥṣīl al-zamān al-dawrī li-l-qamar ʿalā mā dhakara Baṭlamyūs fī awāʾil al-maqāla al-rābiʿa min al-Majisṭī (170v). — The same short work as the previous one, also consisting of two pages. The work is disorderly bound, and the folios are exchanged with the previous one: the first page of this work (170v) is followed by the last of the previous work, while the second page of this work (169r) follows the first of the previous work. The pages are numbered 3 and 4 with Arabic-European numerals in the outer upper corner. Written in diagonal lines; almost fully undotted naskh hand with ligatures, different from the remainder of the codex. No glosses. A scribal colophon attributes the authorship to ‘our teacher’ (ustādhu-nā) and ‘our master’ (mawlā-nā) Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī (169r).