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Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania – Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, LJS 392

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

13 Dhū l-qaʿda 813/9 March 1411 (213r).

Or.:

unknown, probably Persian (Black); copied by Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥasan (213r); a statement on f. 213v reads ‘this copy has been composed … the year 720’, i.e., ad 1320-1.

Prov.:

erased ownership statements (1r). A marginal gloss in the hand of ʿAlī l-Riyāḍī l-Munajjim, owner of the manuscript (49r). A fainted ownership statement dated to the beginning of Muḥarram (the year is missing) by Yāsīn … al-Wahhāb al-Ṭarābī…ī, who can be identified as Yāsīn b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Ṭarābīshī l-Kīlānī, the owner of numerous manuscripts currently held at the Waṭaniyya (Damascus) and al-Azhar (Cairo) libraries with ownership statements dated between 1228/1813 and 1243/1827-8 (1r).

Cod.: paper, 213+I^a ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil only on the first four rectos; catchwords). A single clear black naskh hand with early nastaʿlīq elements. Mostly dotted ductus; no shaddas, few hamzas, hardly any vowels. Book headings in bold naskh in gold; chapter headings, when provided, in red introduced by the term faṣl, although most are left blank; text quoted from Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī indicated with red overlines and introduced with formulaic qawlu-hu in bold red or gold; text by Nīsābūrī introduced by formulaic aqūlu in bold red or gold; however, spaces for most of these formulae are left empty. Most numerals in black abjad notation without overlines. Diagrams with red lines and labels and with black geometrical points, in some cases lacking. Minor tables with red lines and headings and abjad numbers in red and black. Codex in bad condition; substantial moisture stains that at times blur the text, damage by the flap. Dimensions: 26.4×16.6 cm, written area: 16.6×9.5 cm; 29 lines per page. Covers in dark brown leather over paper pasteboards; blind-stamped medallion on covers and flap. Type II binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–213r). Blank: none.

Bibl.: Crofton Black, Transformation of Knowledge. Early Manuscripts from the Collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg, London: Paul Holberton, 2006, pp. 54–55. — OPenn: https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs392.html.

1v–⁠213r	\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كـ{…}ـامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر {تمتري} الزيادة — \213r\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة شعادة (كذا) ويسرى ويجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة وبشرى ويرحم الله عبدا قال أمينا. = Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) . — Title: Kitāb Ḥāshiya ʿalā l-Majisṭī (1r, fainted). — Index: preface, 1v; Book I, 2r–31v; II, 31v–49r; III, 49r–69v; IV, 69v–81v; V, 81v–106r; VI, 106v–136r; VII, 136r–142v; VIII, 142v–147r; IX, 147r–161r; X, 161r–168v; XI, 168v–177r; XII, 177v–193r; XIII, 193r–213r. A number of folios is missing after 1v, affecting most of the preface and the heading and the largest part of the text of chapter I.1. — Dated authorial colophons at the end of every book, except I and XIII. Dated scribal colophon. Hardly any marginal corrections or glosses.

1v–⁠213r

\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كـ{…}ـامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر {تمتري} الزيادة — \213r\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة شعادة (كذا) ويسرى ويجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة وبشرى ويرحم الله عبدا قال أمينا.

= Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38)

. — Title: Kitāb Ḥāshiya ʿalā l-Majisṭī (1r, fainted). — Index: preface, 1v; Book I, 2r–31v; II, 31v–49r; III, 49r–69v; IV, 69v–81v; V, 81v–106r; VI, 106v–136r; VII, 136r–142v; VIII, 142v–147r; IX, 147r–161r; X, 161r–168v; XI, 168v–177r; XII, 177v–193r; XIII, 193r–213r. A number of folios is missing after 1v, affecting most of the preface and the heading and the largest part of the text of chapter I.1. — Dated authorial colophons at the end of every book, except I and XIII. Dated scribal colophon. Hardly any marginal corrections or glosses.