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Cairo, Dār al-kutub, K (falak) 8530⁢⁢⁢

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

finished on 15 Rajab 1252/26 October 1836 (222r); the first twelve books were finished between Wednesday, 26 Rabīʿ al-thānī, and Tuesday, 15 Jumādā al-thāniya 1552\10 August–27 September 1836.

Or.:

unknown; copied by Mirzā ʿAbbās from the ‘correct vowelised exemplar’ (al-nuskha al-ṣaḥīḥa al-mushakkala), which is stated to be a third-generation copy of a manuscript ‘transcribed’ (nasakha-hā) by ʿAbd al-ʿAlī l-Birjandī (222r).

Prov.:

a seal illegible on the scans (1r), possibly of the ʿAlī b. Taḥsīn who is mentioned as an owner by King. A brief statement with identification of the work (IIv). Library stamp (1r, 22v, 224v). Accession no. 5193/1961 (1r).

Cod.: paper, II+222+II^a ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in the upper left area of rectos; an unnumbered sheet with a diagram, partially folded in, after f. 20; ff. 124–127 inserted upside-down in reverse order; catchwords). A single naskh hand; fully dotted ductus. Book and section titles mostly framed, all books starting with a framed basmala on a new page. Proposition numbers written out in the margins. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals apparently in red. Nicely drawn diagrams, mostly in the margins (except in Book XI); use of colours not recognisable on the black-and-white scans. Tables with titles in thuluth, often unfinished; a rosette (117v). A frame and an outer rule border on every page; an additional frame on f. 1v, apparently intended for a headpiece. Codex seemingly in good condition. Dimensions: 29×18 cm; 21 lines per page.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: only partially filled layout for a table of contents (223r–224v, IIr); Ptolemaica (1v–222r). Blank: Ir–v, 20^bisv, 26r, 45v, 118v, 204v, 222v (except for the frame and rule-border).

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. 355; 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. 262–263 (no. 18).

1v–⁠222r	\1v\ الحمد لله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجوا حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \222r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني الله تعالى لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامد الله 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) . — Title: al-Majisṭī al-mansūb ilā Baṭlīmūs al-Qalūzī li-l-khwāja Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (IIv). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–25v; II, 26v–45r; III, 46r–60r; IV, 60v–76v; V, 77r–97v; VI, 98r–118r; VII, 119r–141r; VIII, 141v–158v; IX, 159r–178r; X, 178v–184r; XI, 184v–196v; XII, 197r–208v; XIII, 209r–222r. — No authorial colophon; dated scribal colophons at the end of all books except V and X; colophon of Book XIII written in a smaller script and separated from the explicit by a double line. Very few marginal corrections. Frequent extensive glosses in nastaʿlīq script, mostly with reference mark ‘12’, some with sigla Niẓām al-Dīn Aʿraj (e.g., 10v), ʿAbd al-ʿAlī Birjandī (26v, 72v) or Qāḍī (53r, 57r); some interlinear annotations (e.g., 5v, 7v–8v, 81v, 85r, 86r).

1v–⁠222r

\1v\ الحمد لله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجوا حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \222r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني الله تعالى لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامد الله 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)

. — Title: al-Majisṭī al-mansūb ilā Baṭlīmūs al-Qalūzī li-l-khwāja Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (IIv). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–25v; II, 26v–45r; III, 46r–60r; IV, 60v–76v; V, 77r–97v; VI, 98r–118r; VII, 119r–141r; VIII, 141v–158v; IX, 159r–178r; X, 178v–184r; XI, 184v–196v; XII, 197r–208v; XIII, 209r–222r. — No authorial colophon; dated scribal colophons at the end of all books except V and X; colophon of Book XIII written in a smaller script and separated from the explicit by a double line. Very few marginal corrections. Frequent extensive glosses in nastaʿlīq script, mostly with reference mark ‘12’, some with sigla Niẓām al-Dīn Aʿraj (e.g., 10v), ʿAbd al-ʿAlī Birjandī (26v, 72v) or Qāḍī (53r, 57r); some interlinear annotations (e.g., 5v, 7v–8v, 81v, 85r, 86r).