Princeton, University Library, Garrett 34Yq
Friday, 19 Dhū l-qaʿda 1324/4 January 1907.
Or.:Iraq, probably Samawah, where the scribe lived during 1324/1907; copied by the Iraqi judge, poet and polymath Muḥammad b. Ṭāhir b. al-Ḥabīb b. al-Muḥsin b. al-Ḥusayn b. Turkī al-Faḍlī 〈al-Samāwī〉 (d. 1370/1950) (94r; on him, see his biography in the introduction to his Ibṣār al-ʿayn fī anṣār al-Ḥusayn, ʿalay-hi wa-ʿalay-him al-salām, ed. Muḥammad Jaʿfar al-Ṭabasī, Tehran: Markaz al-dirāsāt al-islāmiyya li-ḥaras al-thawra, 1419/1998, pp. 15–17).
Prov.:from the books of the Iraqi religious scholar and poet based in Najaf al-Hādī 〈b. ʿAbbās b. ʿAlī b. Jaʿfar〉 Āl Kāshif al-Ghiṭāʾ al-Najafī (d. 1361/1942), ex-libris dated 1332/1913-4 (3r). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda in 1942.
Cod.: paper, I+93+Ia ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals, skipping the pasted leaves after ff. 7, 28, 36, 47, and 68; pagination in Hindu-Arabic numerals at the centre top of the text frames, counting the table of contents on ff. Iv–1v separately from 1 to 3 and then starting with p. 2 on f. 2r and likewise skipping the pasted leaves; catchwords). A single formal small naskh hand with elements of nastaʿlīq in black ink with use of magenta and red. Fully dotted ductus; few shaddas, substantial hamzas, no vowels. Abjad notation in black not consistently overlined. Chapter headings (without the term faṣl) in black with a red overline and numbered with abjad numerals; new paragraphs indicated with overlines. Substantial diagrams (all in the margins) and tables. Text framed with double line in magenta. Codex in excellent condition; few smudges, no moisture or mould stains. Dimensions: 280×202 mm, written area: 205×120 mm; 27 lines per page. Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, blind-tooled and stamped; blue and burgundy marbled paper pastedowns (PUL Catalog).
Cont.: astronomy. —
Bibl.: Rudolf Mach, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section) in the Garrett Collection, Princeton University Library, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977, p. 420 (no. 4870); 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, p. 286 (no. 70). —
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\2v\ أحمد الله مبدء كلّ مبدء وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية. وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \93r\ 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)
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