[Black-and-white microfilm scans of the textblock; colour photographs of the first and last part of the codex.]
Collection of a main work, five short appendices, and a map: Arabic.
Date:
Tuesday, 10 Shawwāl 691/23 September 1292 (first hand, scribal colophon, 164v); collation finished on 13 Shawwāl 691/26 September 1292 (164v).
Or.:
Shiraz; copied by Abū l-Maḥāmid Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Turkistānī al-Arzawānī (?) in the Madrasa ʿAḍūdiyya; 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; 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 and points to an active patronage by Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī to disseminate Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī).
Prov.:
there may be statements of ownership on f. IIr, but the ink is fainted, and they are unreadable from the microfilm scans. A ṭughrāʾ erased with an ink blot (167v). Old shelfmarks: ‘1502’ in ghubār numerals; ‘637’ and ‘745’ in Arabic-European numerals (inside front cover).
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. Chapter headings, abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals, few glosses, and geometric points throughout the body text and in numerous diagrams in red. Substantial diagrams and tables. The last two small works in two different almost fully undotted naskh hands, the second of these with ligatures. Dimensions: 18.6×13 cm; 25 lines per page. Type II binding.
Cont.: astronomy. — Index: a list of intervals (fawt, pl. afwāt), sigla and dates: ‘fawt d fī yawm al-aḥad 15 ṣ〈afar〉 1213, wa-fawt s 25 ṣ〈afar〉 1213, wa-fawt j 29 ṣ〈afar〉 1213, wa-fawt Muḥammad 4 r〈abīʿ al-awwal〉 1213, wa-fawt b 6 r〈abīʿ al-awwal〉 1213’, which may have been written down when making a new copy from this manuscript in 1213/1788 (Ir). A title Kitāb al-Kāmil … shaykh Srlʿ (?) al-Karsakānī ʿalay-hi l-niʿama wa-l-riḍwān fī ʿilm al-ṭilimsanāt al-ʿajība wa-l-gharība (?) with a marginal note in English reading: ‘This title … in no way connects with the book. It has been left blank by the scribe. The present writing is of a later time’ (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); seal and 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; ParraMª 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).
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\ فلنختم الكتاب. وأقول: وإذ وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته، فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على الآية ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه، خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه، والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.
. — 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: author’s 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. — Authorial colophon without date or place; scribal colophon; colophon by the scribe of the exemplar (al-Malaṭī) also provided (164v). Substantial glosses throughout, mostly of a highly technical tenor. Al-Turkistānī supplements his colophon with a note indicating that the glosses containing a hāʾ mulawwaza (ھ), which most of the glosses do, were found in his base manuscript (164v). Since the base manuscript seems to be patronaged, and probably owned, by Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, who may have sent it to Shīrāz, and since al-Malaṭī is an unknown scholar, it is very likely that most, if not all, of the glosses in the base manuscript were by Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī himself. In some parts of the work, the glosses in the base manuscript almost make up a small super-commentary. Minor additional glosses in red. Marginal corrections consistently indicated with siglum ṣḥ. Al-Turkistānī also points out in the supplemented note to his colophon (164v) that glosses taken from other sources would be indicated in their place. On f. 25r, a table includes additional variants of values in red. A marginal gloss points out that these variants are taken from a copy in the hand of Abū Rayḥān, i.e., al-Bīrūnī (nuskha bi-khaṭṭ Abī Rayḥān).
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 مبتدئا من الأوج إلى التوالي هكذى. [diagrams] \165v\ [tables]
\166r\ [title] ليكن ا ب ج د ه الحامل على مركز ز وقطر ا ب وح عليه نقطة خارجة عن المركز وج ح دد ح ه زاويتان عليها فإن كانتا متساويتين كانت قوس د ه الأوجيّة — \167r\ فقد تبيّن بالاستقراء ولم يلج لي طريق برهانيّ بعد إلى ذلك. والله الموفّق. تمّت الرسالة بعون الله وتعالى.
\167r\ [title]ا كوكب الرأس وب كوكب زحل وفي المجسطي لأوّل سنة من ملك أنطونينس طول ا و م وعرضه ز ك — \167v\ فخرج الطول زائدًا على ما أخذه بطلميوس بسبع وعشرين دقيقة والعرض زائدًا على ما أخذه بخمس وعشرين دقيقة. فعرفنا أنّه قد تساهل فيه على التقريب دون التحقيق. والحمد لله وليّ التوفيق الصلوة على رسوله ونبيّه محمّد الهادي إلى أقوم الطريق وعلى آله وأصحابه.
. — Title: Fī Tashakkul al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (167r). — No glosses.
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\ وظهر ممّا ذكرنا أنّه لو اشترط في المدد المطلوبة الشروط التي ذكرها القدماء في مسير القمر لم {...} شئ ممّا ذكره بطلميوس من التحزّر والاستقصاء هذا. وأمّا الاستقصاء في الزمان الدوريّ فنحتاج إلى بسط قول بجمعها رسالة.
. — 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 corner. A fully undotted naskh hand. No corrections or glosses.
170v, 169r
\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\ وظهر ممّا ذكرنا أنّه لو اشترط في المدد المطلوبة الشروط التي ذكرها القدماء في مسير القمر لم يحتاج إلى شئ ممّا ذكره بطلميوس من التحزّر والاستقصاء هذا. وأمّا الاستقصاء في الزمان الدوريّ فنحتاج إلى بسط قول بجمعه في رسالة.
. — 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 one of the previous work. No glosses. A scribal colophon attributes the authorship to his teacher (ustādhu-nā) and master (mawlā-nā) Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī (169r). However, it cannot be concluded with certainty that the scribe is al-Turkistānī.
