Cairo, Dār al-kutub, K (falak) 3822
copied on a Tuesday during the first ten days (al-ʿashar al-awwal) of Jumādā l-ūlā 1116/2 or 9 September 1704 (191v); copied from an exemplar dated to the end (salkh) of Jumādā l-ūlā 678/September-October 1279 that is said to have been copied from an exemplar in the hand of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, which in turn was copied from an autograph (nuskha bi-khaṭṭ al-muṣannif) (191v).
Or.:Mashhad; copied by ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Khādim 〈al-Mashhadī〉 (191v), who also copied MS
Partially legible library stamp (1r, 191v). Accession number (?): ‘2191/1938’ (1r).
Cod.: paper, 191 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals, mostly invisible on the scans; corrected foliation from f. 169 onwards in the upper left margins of rectos; quire numbers in the upper left corner of every eighth recto in overlined bold abjad from b (2) to kd (24), quire ends indicated by a Hindu-Arabic ‘8’ in the upper right corner of versos; catchwords). A naskh hand with tendency to nastaʿlīq; almost fully dotted ductus, frequent vowel marks, some hamzas but only very few shaddas. First page (1v) in a different naskh hand. Book headings mostly in bold thuluth; additional catch titles in the margins for Books II–V. Chapter beginnings introduced by bold and overlined abjad numerals; propositions numbered in the margins with bold and overlined abjad numerals. Abjad numerals in the text overlined. Carefully drawn diagrams, sometimes invisible on the scans. Codex seemingly in good condition; first page replaced, binding apparently becoming loose. Dimensions: 24×15.5 cm, written area: 17×8 cm; 20 lines per page.
Cont.: astronomy. —
Bibl.: Fuʾād Sayyid, Fihrist al-makhṭūṭāt. Nashra bi-l-makhṭūṭāt allatī iqtanat-hā al-Dār min sanat 1936 – 1955, 3 vols, Cairo: Maṭbaʻat Dār al-Kutub, 1961–1963, here vol. I, p. 130; 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, here vol. I, p. 316; 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, pp. 261–262 (no. 17) and p. 312.
1v–191v
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\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو أحسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \191v\ 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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