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Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. Arab. 88

[Color scanned images of the textblock and covers; inspected in May 2019.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

unknown, probably 19^th c.

Or.:

unknown, probably Ottoman Empire; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

acquired in Istanbul between 1925 and 1931 by the German-Turkish scholar Oskar Rescher (1883–1972). Modern stamp ‘Universitäts-Bibliothek Leipzig’ (1r).

Cod.: machine-made paper (watermarks reading ‘Andrea Galvani Pordenone’; cf. Anne Regourd, ‘Berlin and Leiden. Papers, Words and Music’, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Blog-Netzwerk für Forschung und Kultur (2018), https://blog.sbb.berlin/text-of-records-records-of-texts/), I+465+I^a ff. (unfoliated; catchwords on almost every folio). A single clear nastaʿlīq hand in black; regularly dotted ductus, hardly any shaddas or vowels, substantial hamzas. Chapter headings in red, paragraph beginnings partially highlighted (mostly by words or overlines in red). Diagrams and tables in red and black. Codex in good condition: no damage of any type. Dimensions: 23.3×15.8 cm, written area: 17.5×10.0 cm; 23 lines per page (misṭara imprints visible). Full leather cover in reddish brown over paper pasteboards with fore-edge flap and envelope flap (spine restored); blind-stamped medallion in diamond shape on front and back cover; frame with fillets, gilding still visible on back cover; inside decorated with marble paper (very similar to the binding decoration of MSS Vienna, ÖNB, Mixt. 1084 and Vienna, ÖNB, Mixt. 1085, which were likewise bought by Rescher in Istanbul). Type II binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–464r). Inserted sheet (f. 9^bis) with three sketches of diagrams in a different hand. Blank: 464v.

Bibl.: Qalamos: https://www.qalamos.net/receive/DE15Book_manuscript_00010154 (with scans).

1v–⁠464r	\1v\ الحمد لله الذي جعلنا من المتفكّرين في خلق السموات والأرض وألهمنا طريق معرفة مقادير حركات الأجرام النيّرة في الطول والعرض — \464r\ الحمد لله أوّلًا وآخرًا وظاهرًا وباطنًا والصلوة والسلام على زبدة الليالي والأيّام محمّد سيّد الثقلين وخير الأنام وآله الأخيار العظام وشيعته الأبرار الكرام وقد فرغت من تحرير هذا الشرح وتسويده وتصحيحه بقدر الإمكان ضحوة يوم السبت في أوائل ذي الحجّة إحدى وعشرين وتسعمائة من الهجرة النبويّة. = al-Birjandī, Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.44) . — Title: Meǧisti Barǧandī (in pencil, Ir). Index: preface, 1v–3r; Book I, 3r–76v; II, 76v–114v; III, 114v–156r; IV, 156r–182v; V, 182v–238v; VI, 238v–286r; VII, 286r–316r; 〈VIII〉, 316r–356v; IX, 356v–387r; X/XI, 387r–408v/397r–415v; XII, 415r–434v; XIII, 434v–464r. — Authorial colophon dated to a Saturday in the beginning of Dhū l-ḥijja 921; no scribal colophon. No marginal collations, glosses or reading statements, very few corrections in the hand of the scribe introduced by sigla ṣ or ṣḥ.

1v–⁠464r

\1v\ الحمد لله الذي جعلنا من المتفكّرين في خلق السموات والأرض وألهمنا طريق معرفة مقادير حركات الأجرام النيّرة في الطول والعرض — \464r\ الحمد لله أوّلًا وآخرًا وظاهرًا وباطنًا والصلوة والسلام على زبدة الليالي والأيّام محمّد سيّد الثقلين وخير الأنام وآله الأخيار العظام وشيعته الأبرار الكرام وقد فرغت من تحرير هذا الشرح وتسويده وتصحيحه بقدر الإمكان ضحوة يوم السبت في أوائل ذي الحجّة إحدى وعشرين وتسعمائة من الهجرة النبويّة.

= al-Birjandī, Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.44)

. — Title: Meǧisti Barǧandī (in pencil, Ir). Index: preface, 1v–3r; Book I, 3r–76v; II, 76v–114v; III, 114v–156r; IV, 156r–182v; V, 182v–238v; VI, 238v–286r; VII, 286r–316r; 〈VIII〉, 316r–356v; IX, 356v–387r; X/XI, 387r–408v/397r–415v; XII, 415r–434v; XIII, 434v–464r. — Authorial colophon dated to a Saturday in the beginning of Dhū l-ḥijja 921; no scribal colophon. No marginal collations, glosses or reading statements, very few corrections in the hand of the scribe introduced by sigla ṣ or ṣḥ.