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London, British Library, IO Islamic 1148

Collection of three main works and three appendices: Arabic and Persian. Date:

first work completed on 6 Muḥarram 722/25 January 1322 (62r, colophon).

Or.:

first work copied in Soltaniyeh (Zanjan); works on ff. 1v–67v copied by Ḥamza b. ʿAlī b. Ḥamza al-Qazwīnī al-Bayhaqī, known as Saʿd al-Khurāsānī, from a copy made from an autograph (62r).

Prov.:

seal of ʿInāyat Khān from during the rule of Shāh Jahān (1r); seal of Fāḍil Khān dated 1059/1649 during the rule of Shāh Jahān (1r). Statements of ownership in Delhi dated 1062/1651-2 and 1069/1658-9. A seal that reads laṭafa Allāh bi-ʿibādi-hi (106r). Additional seals of Shāh Isḥāq (?), one dated 1067/1656-7 (68r).

Cod.: paper, I+135+IV^a ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil; various irregular earlier foliations with Hindu-Arabic numerals from before the rebinding; catchwords). Two main hands: a black naskh hand (1v–67v), carefully written on ff. 1v–63r but smaller and faster on ff. 63v–67v; and a black and red naskh hand, occasionally cursive (68v–135v). Almost fully undotted ductus; no vowels, shaddas or hamzas. Overlined Hindu-Arabic numerals and abjad notation occasionally in red. Book headings in black thuluth in the first work; chapter headings in red numerated with abjad notation in bold black in the first work; chapter headings in bold black in the fifth work; words introducing new sections or paragraphs rubricated in red in the first work. Substantial diagrams and tables; diagrams in black with geometrical points in red or in red with points in black; tables in black and red. Codex in acceptable condition; substantially worm-eaten; some hand oils particularly in the last work; some restorations; the entire manuscript rebound with guards. Dimensions: 235×160 mm, written area on ff. 1v–63r: 180×115 mm, on ff. 63v–67v: 215×130 mm, on ff. 68v–135v: 180×132 mm; lines per page: ff. 1v–63r: 32, 63v–67v: approximately 60, 68v–135v: 33. Covers in blue over pasteboards; half-bound. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy and mathematics. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–62r); Ptolemaica (62v); Ptolemaica (62v); Ptolemaica (63r); Menelaus of Alexandria, Fī l-ashkāl al-kuriyya (63v–67r); Zīj of Ulugh Beg (68r–135r). Blank: all flyleaves (with the exception of some librarian’s notes).

Bibl.: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, London: Stephen Austin and Sons, 1877, pp. 215–216 (no. 741); 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. 273–274 (no. 47). — British Library Archives and Manuscripts: http://searcharchives.bl.uk/permalink/f/79qrt5/IAMS032-002487824; Qatar Digital Library: https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022506131.0x000001.

1v–⁠62r	\1v\ أحمد الله مبداء كلّ مبداء وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية. وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \62r\ وأقول: وإذ وفقني الله تعالى لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته، فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على الآية ومصليا على جميع أوليائه، خصوصا على خاتم أنبيائه، والبررة من آله وأحبائه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Majisṭī (1r). — Index: author’s preface, 1v; Book I, 1v–8v; II, 8v–14v; III, 14v–19r; IV, 19r–24r; V, 24r–30r; VI, 30v–31r; VII, 31r–38r; VIII, 38r–42v; IX, 42v–50r; X, 50r–52r; XI, 52r–56r; XII, 56r–58r; XIII, 58v–62r. — Authorial and scribal colophons. Collated in Muḥarram 723/January-February 1323, in the madrasa Rashīdiyya in Soltaniyeh (62r). Marginal corrections and collations. Substantial glosses, most of which by the main scribe.
62v	\62v\ [title] ا كوكب الرأس وب كوكب الزحل وفي المجسطي لأوّل سنة من ملك أنطونينس طول ا  و م وعرضه ز ك — فخرج الطول زائدا على ما أخذ بطلميوس بسبع وعشرين دقيقة والعرض زائدا على ما أخذه بخمس وعشرين دقيقة. فعرفنا أنه قد تساهل فيه على التقريب دون التحقيق. والله أعلم بالحقيقة. = Fī Shakl 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 (62v). — One diagram. No glosses; only minor corrections in the margin.
62v	\62v\ نريد أن نثبت اختلافات وقوع الخطوط في الأشكال التي تعرف منها أوضاع مراكز عطارد في مسيراتها — وتكون الأشكال بحسب مسير المركز بالحركة الوسطى مبتديا من الأوج إلى التوالي هكذا. [4 diagrams] = 〈Risāla fī Ikhtilāfāt wuqūʿ al-khuṭūṭ fī l-ashkāl〉 (C.1.18a) . — Title: none. — Incomplete due to one or two missing folios; sixteen of the twenty diagrams of this work and the three final tables are missing. No marginal corrections, collations or glosses.
63r	\63r\ \|\| ثم نخرج ز د عمودًا على ا ب ونصل د ط ح د فأقول زاوية ط ك د أكثر من كل واحد منهما وذلك لأن زاويتي ط ه ح ه ح ج مسادلتين متساويتين — فقد تبيّن بالاستقراء ولم يلج لي طريق برهانيّ بعد إلى ذلك. والله الموفق. = Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt (C.1.18b) . — Acephalous due to one or two missing folios. No marginal corrections, collations or glosses.