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London, British Library, IO Islamic 1148

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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). MS Mashhad, Āstān-i Quds, 5453⁢⁢ was copied directly or indirectly from this manuscript.

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); Paul Kunitzsch, Claudius Ptolemäus. Der Sternkatalog des Almagest. Die arabisch-mittelalterliche Tradition, 3 vols, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1986–1991, vol. III, p. 8; 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. 273–274 (no. 47) and 312. — 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\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني الله تعالى لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته، 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: Majisṭī (1r). — Index: 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.