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Cairo, Dār al-kutub, hayʾa 17

Single work with two short appendices: Arabic. Date:

undated, c. 1150/1750 (King).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe. Based on a manuscript finished in Maragha on Wednesday, 22 Ramaḍān 663/8 July 1265 (124r), i.e., while al-Ṭūsī was there; the base manuscript was copied for Maḥmūd al-Khaṭīb, a preacher from Marāgha. The later MS Berlin, SBPK, Sprenger 1838 has an almost identical colophon and is thus either based on the same exemplar or was copied from this codex.

Prov.:

an undated blue oval seal of the Kutubkhāna al-Khidīwiyya (founded 1830 and predecessor of the Dār al-kutub) (1r, 129v). A statement of acquisition from ‘Mister Curtis (Kūrtsh)’, dated 29 May 〈18?〉93, with mention of a price of 47 yawmiyya (daily wages), accompanied by the current shelfmark and an accession number: ‘62766’ (1r).

Cod.: paper, 129 ff. (foliated in pencil with Hindu-Arabic numerals with Cairene characteristics; no catchwords). A neat round naskh hand, with nastaʿlīq influence. Almost fully dotted, shaddas and hamzas mostly provided, occasional vowel marks. Red, golden and blue frames for the main text, space for marginal annotations surrounded by a thinner golden frame. Book, chapter and paragraph beginnings rubricated. Chapter beginnings additionally introduced by bold abjad numerals in black, overlined in red; subsections numbered with red overlined abjad numerals in the margins. Hindu-Arabic and abjad numerals in the main text mostly rubricated and with overlines. Numerous diagrams, tables, and a rosette (68r); diagram lines in black or red, occasionally in blue (e.g., 42v), geometrical points in red or black; tables with golden lines, numbers in black, headers in red and black. A richly illuminated codex with late Safavid/Ottoman characteristics; text on the incipit pages in cloud bands surrounded by several golden, red and green frames, golden illuminated decoration with floresque motives in a broad margin (1v–2r); mid blue and gold dominating the headpiece with lancets; green, red and golden vegetal motives, no title. Codex in very good condition; minor damage caused by insects, in the beginning affecting a small part of the text; upper margins occasionally restored with pasted slips of paper (e.g., ff. 11, 14); f. 3 torn in the upper margin, not affecting the text; some smudges caused by the erasure of mistakes by the scribe (e.g., 17r, 107r). Dimensions: not provided; 29 lines per page (misṭara imprints). No information on binding and covers provided.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–124r); Ptolemaica (125v); Ptolemaica (128v‑129v). Blank: 124v–125r (frames provided).

Bibl.: David A. King, Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʿilmiyya al-maḥfūẓa bi-Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣriyya, 2 vols, Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organisation, 1981–1986, vol. I, p. 210; 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, pp. 260–261.

1v–⁠124r	\1v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \124r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذا وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وأنحاء ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على الآية ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبردة من آله وأحبّائه ووقع الفراغ من نسخة في خامس شوال سنة أربع وأربعون وستمائة. تمّت. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majiṣṭī Baṭlamyūs Taḥrīr Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (1r). — Index: author’s preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–16r; II, 16r–28r; III, 28r–36r; IV, 36r–47r; V, 47r–58v; VI, 58v–68v; VII, 68v–78v; VIII, 78v–89v; IX, 89v–102r; X, 102r–105r; XI, 105r–112r; XII, 112r–116v; XIII, 117r–124r. — No scribal colophon; dated authorial colophon (124r). This manuscript includes many of the glosses attributed to al-Ṭūsī himself in a naskh hand similar to the hand of the main scribe, mostly indicated by ḥāshiya and accompanied by siglum ‘12’ in Hindu-Arabic numerals or linked to the main text through reference marks. Furthermore, some marginal annotations by the scribe included in a golden frame; some diagrams added in the margins (on f. 104r in red ink, on f. 47r of an armillary sphere with five concentric blue rings). Minor marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe mostly indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Numerous marginal collation marks (e.g., 16v, 54r, 62r, in red and black).
125v–⁠128r	\125v\ نريد أن نثبت اختلاف وقوع الخطوط في الأشكال التي يعرف منها أوضاع مراكز أفلاك عطارد في مسيراتها ومقادير أبعاد مركز التدوير عن مركزي العالم ومعدّل المسير ومقادير اختلافه الأوّل بحسب الأبعاد المختلفة ومقادير أبعادها العظام أيضًا بحسبها التي هي غايات اختلافه الثاني — \125v\ ويكون الأشكال بحسب مسير المركز الحركة الوسطى مبتدًأ من الأوج إلى التوالي هكذا. [diagrams] [tables] = 〈Risāla fī Ikhtilāfāt wuqūʿ al-khuṭūṭ fī l-ashkāl〉 (C.1.18a) . — Title: none. — The main text is followed by a set of twenty diagrams on f. 126r–v and three tables on ff. 127r–128r. No marginal annotations.
128v–⁠129v	\128v\ [title] ليكن ا ب ج د الحامل على مركز ز وقطر ا ب وح عليه نقطة خارجة عن المركز وج ح د، د ح ه زاويتان عليها فإن كانتا متساويتين كانت قوس د ه الأوجيّه — \129v\ فقد تبيّن بالاستقراء ولم يلج لي طريق برهانيّ بعد إلى ذلك والله الموفق تمّت رسالة. = Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt (C.1.18b) . — Title: Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāf allatī yaḥduthu bi-sabab al-kkhurūj ʿan al-markaz (128v). — No marginal annotations.