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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 statements of ownership (1r). A marginal gloss in the hand of ʿAlī al-Riyāḍī al-Munajjim, owner of the manuscript (49r). A fainted statement of ownership 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 al-Kīlānī, the owner of numerous manuscripts currently held at the Asad (Damascus) and al-Azhar (Cairo) libraries with statements of ownership 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. Most numerals in abjad notation in black without overlines. 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 overlines in red 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. Substantial diagrams with lines in red and labels and geometrical points in black, in some cases lacking geometrical points. Minor tables with lines in red, headings in red and black, 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: 264×166 mm, written area: 166×95 mm; 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 {…} الزيادة فأحمده على ما أولانا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض — \213r\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظه فلحظه شعادة 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 Ḥāshiyya ʿalā l-Majisṭī (1r, fainted). — Index: author’s 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 author’s 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 Books I and XIII; all given dates of completion of the books corrrespond to those given in the work description. 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 {…} الزيادة فأحمده على ما أولانا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض — \213r\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظه فلحظه شعادة 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 Ḥāshiyya ʿalā l-Majisṭī (1r, fainted). — Index: author’s 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 author’s 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 Books I and XIII; all given dates of completion of the books corrrespond to those given in the work description. Dated scribal colophon. Hardly any marginal corrections or glosses.