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Cairo, Dār al-kutub, K (falak) 3822⁢

Single work: Arabic. Date:

copied on a Tuesday during the first ten days (‘al-ʿashar al-awwal’) of Jumādā l-ūlā 1116/2 or 9 September 1704 (colophon, 191v); copied from an exemplar dated to the end (salkh) of Jumādā l-ūlā 678/September-October 1279 that claimed 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’) (colophon, 191v).

Or.:

Mashhad; copied by ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Khādim 〈al-Mashhadī〉 (colophon, 191v), who also copied MS London, BL, Add. 7508 in Isfahan in 1080/1670 (cf. William Cureton and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens, pars II, London: Curatorum Musei Britannici, 1852, p. 222 (no. ccccxlix)) and MS Najaf, Kāshif al-ghitāʾ, 6739 in that same year (cf. MuʿjamMuṣṭafā Dirāyatī, Muʿjam al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʿirāqiyya, 20 vols, Tehran: Library, Museum and Documentation Center of The Islamic Consultative Assembly, 2019, vol. X, p. 239 (no. 41462)).

Prov.:

Partially legible stamp of the library (1r and 191v). Accession number (?): ‘2191/1938’ (1r).

Cod.: paper, 191 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals, mostly invisible on the scans; corrected foliation between ff. 169–191 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). Main hand (2r–191v): naskh 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: almost fully dotted ductus; few hamzas and shaddas, no vowel marks. 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 main 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. Covers and binding not assessable.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–191v). Blank: none.

Bibl.: Fuʾād Sayyid, Fihrist al-makhṭūṭāt. Nashra bi-l-makhṭūṭāt allatī qtanat-hā al-Dār min sanat 1936 – 1955, 3 vols, Cairo: Maṭbaʻat Dār al-Kutub, 1961–1963, 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, vol. I, p. 316; 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. 261–262 (no. 17).

1v–⁠191v	\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو أحسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \191v\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على الآية ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبردة من آله وأحبّائه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī li-l-muḥaqqiq al-Ṭūsī (1r). — Additional Titles: al-nuskha al-sharīfa al-musammā bi-l-Majistī (sic) (colophon, 191v). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–22v; II, 22v–38r; III, 38r–51v; IV, 51v–68r; V, 68r–87r; VI, 87v–102r; VII, 102v–116r; VIII, 116r–130v; IX, 130v–150r; X, 150v–156r; XI, 156r–169r; XII, 169v–177r; XIII, 177v–191v. — Dated scribal colophon from the exemplar. Dated scribal colophon (191v). Few marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Marginal annotations in the hand of the scribe originating from al-Shīrāzī’s copy (colophon, 191v). Marginal calculations (e.g., 49v).

1v–⁠191v

\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو أحسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \191v\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على الآية ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبردة من آله وأحبّائه.

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

. — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī li-l-muḥaqqiq al-Ṭūsī (1r). — Additional Titles: al-nuskha al-sharīfa al-musammā bi-l-Majistī (sic) (colophon, 191v). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–22v; II, 22v–38r; III, 38r–51v; IV, 51v–68r; V, 68r–87r; VI, 87v–102r; VII, 102v–116r; VIII, 116r–130v; IX, 130v–150r; X, 150v–156r; XI, 156r–169r; XII, 169v–177r; XIII, 177v–191v. — Dated scribal colophon from the exemplar. Dated scribal colophon (191v). Few marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Marginal annotations in the hand of the scribe originating from al-Shīrāzī’s copy (colophon, 191v). Marginal calculations (e.g., 49v).