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London, British Library, Royal 16 A VIII

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

undated; 9^th/15^th or 10^th/16^th c. (Cureton).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

an unclear seal (1r). A note reading ‘This booke belonged to Sultan Ahmed, ye Turkish Empr, and cost about an 100 crownes at ye first’ (1r).

Cod.: beige paper with some red leaves, IV+192+IV^a ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil; paginated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil on every recto, starting with ‘2‘ on f. 3r; catchwords). A single clear black naskh hand. Mostly dotted ductus; frequent shaddas and hamzas, occasional vowels. Headings and words introducing new sections or paragraphs in gold; Hindu-Arabic numerals and abjad notation occasionally in gold. Decorated head-piece with basmala in blue, green, red, black and gold (2v); body text framed in gold. Substantial diagrams and tables; diagrams in gold with geometrical points in black; tables in gold, black and red. Codex in good condition; mold stains, slightly worm-eaten, minor moisture stains on the first and last folios. Dimensions: 199×123 mm, written area: 127×59 mm; 23 lines per page. Covers in brown leather with golden fillets over pasteboards; marbled paper on the inside of the covers. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (2v–191v). Blank: flyleaves.

Bibl.: William Cureton and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens, pars II, London: Curatorum Musei Britannici, 1852, p. 187 (no. cccxci); 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, p. 274 (no. 48). British Library Archives and Manuscripts: http://searcharchives.bl.uk/permalink/f/79qrt5/IAMS040-002402986 (temporarily unavailable); Qatar Digital Library: https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000001598.0x0000f0.

2v–⁠191v	\2v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية. وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \191v\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفقني الله تعالى أيضا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته، فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على الآية ومصليا على جميع أوليائه، خصوصا على خاتم أنبيائه، والبررة من آله وأحبائه. تم. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (3r). — Index: author’s preface, 2v–3r; Book I, 3r–23r; II, 23r–39v; III, 39v–51v; IV, 51v–67v; V, 67v–85r; VI, 85r–100v; VII, 100v–114v; VIII, 115r–130v; IX, 130v–150r; X, 150v–155v; XI, 155v–169r; XII, 169r–178v; XIII, 178v–191v. — Authorial colophon; no scribal colophon. No marginal corrections, collations or glosses.

2v–⁠191v

\2v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية. وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \191v\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفقني الله تعالى أيضا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته، فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على الآية ومصليا على جميع أوليائه، خصوصا على خاتم أنبيائه، والبررة من آله وأحبائه. تم.

= Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18)

. — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (3r). — Index: author’s preface, 2v–3r; Book I, 3r–23r; II, 23r–39v; III, 39v–51v; IV, 51v–67v; V, 67v–85r; VI, 85r–100v; VII, 100v–114v; VIII, 115r–130v; IX, 130v–150r; X, 150v–155v; XI, 155v–169r; XII, 169r–178v; XIII, 178v–191v. — Authorial colophon; no scribal colophon. No marginal corrections, collations or glosses.