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Princeton, University Library, Garrett 34Yq

Single work: Arabic. Date:

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+I^a 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 mold 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. — Index: table of contents with scribal colophon by Muḥammad b. Ṭāhir b. Ḥabīb b. Muḥsin b. al-Ḥusayn al-Faḍlī (Iv–1v); Ptolemaica (2v–93r). Blank: none.

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); 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. 286 (no. 70). — PUL Catalog: https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/5191108.

2v–⁠93r	\2v\ أحمد الله مبدء كلّ مبدء وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية. وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \93r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفقني الله تعالى لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته، فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على الآية ومصليا على جميع أوليائه، خصوصا على خاتم أنبيائه، والبررة من آله وأحبائه. ووقع الفراغ من نسخة في خامس شوال سنة أربع وأربعين وستمائة. تم تحرير أفضل العالم وأكمل بني آدم نصير الملة والدين الأستاذ القدوسي محمد بن محمد بن الحسن الطوسي لمجسطي بطلميوس. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Majisṭī (spine label). — Index: author’s preface, 2v; Book I, 3v–14r; II, 14r–22v; III, 22r–28r; IV, 28r–35v; V, 35v–43v; VI, 43v–51v; VII, 51v–59v; VIII, 59v–68r; IX, 68r–76v; X, 76v–79r; XI, 79r–84r; XII, 84r–88r; XIII, 88r–94r. — Authorial colophon dated 5 Shawwāl 644/13 February 1247. Dated scribal colophon. Statement of collation with an autograph copy in the margin (94r). Marginal and interlinear corrections and additional readings from collation, frequently numbered, in the scribe’s hand. Few marginal glosses introduced by the term ḥāshiyya. Graph paper leaves pasted containing collations with Ṭūsī’s autograph, particularly conveying different versions of tables (in between ff. 7v–8r, 28v–29r, 36v–37r, 47v–48r, 68v–69r), in a different naskh hand with ruqʿa elements.

2v–⁠93r

\2v\ أحمد الله مبدء كلّ مبدء وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية. وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \93r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفقني الله تعالى لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته، فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على الآية ومصليا على جميع أوليائه، خصوصا على خاتم أنبيائه، والبررة من آله وأحبائه. ووقع الفراغ من نسخة في خامس شوال سنة أربع وأربعين وستمائة. تم تحرير أفضل العالم وأكمل بني آدم نصير الملة والدين الأستاذ القدوسي محمد بن محمد بن الحسن الطوسي لمجسطي بطلميوس.

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

. — Title: Majisṭī (spine label). — Index: author’s preface, 2v; Book I, 3v–14r; II, 14r–22v; III, 22r–28r; IV, 28r–35v; V, 35v–43v; VI, 43v–51v; VII, 51v–59v; VIII, 59v–68r; IX, 68r–76v; X, 76v–79r; XI, 79r–84r; XII, 84r–88r; XIII, 88r–94r. — Authorial colophon dated 5 Shawwāl 644/13 February 1247. Dated scribal colophon. Statement of collation with an autograph copy in the margin (94r). Marginal and interlinear corrections and additional readings from collation, frequently numbered, in the scribe’s hand. Few marginal glosses introduced by the term ḥāshiyya. Graph paper leaves pasted containing collations with Ṭūsī’s autograph, particularly conveying different versions of tables (in between ff. 7v–8r, 28v–29r, 36v–37r, 47v–48r, 68v–69r), in a different naskh hand with ruqʿa elements.