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

[Black-and-white microfilm scans of the textblock; inspected by Flora Vafea in 2014.]

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 in red. Nicely drawn diagrams in black and red, mostly in the margins (except in Book XI). 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, here 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\ 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 signed 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\ 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 signed 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).