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Cairo, Dār al-kutub, hayʾa Talʿat 43

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One main work with an appendix: Arabic. Date:

colophons dated between Wednesday, 30 Ramaḍān 670/20 April 1272 (Book III, 26v) and Wednesday, 9 Rabīʿ al-awwal 673/12 September 1274 (Book VIII, 65v); later additions dated 898/1492-3 (1r, 91v).

Or.:

probably Maragha, copied by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-ʿUrḍī (d. after 1288), son of Muʾayyad al-Dīn al-ʿUrḍī (colophons on ff. 26v, 34v). A note on the title page reads: ‘transmitted (nāqil-hā) by the son (walad, probably inserted later) of Shaykh Muʾayyad al-Dīn al-ʿUrḍī al-Muhandis’ (1r). At least one substantial text portion (ff. 9–10) and values in some tables (esp., f. 16r) were supplemented by Muḥammad b. Abī l-Fatḥ al-Ṣūfī (d. 1543, whose student Taqī l‐Dīn Muḥammad b. Maʿrūf (d. 1585) may have brought the manuscript to Constantinople (91v).

Prov.:

previous ownership statements mostly erased and pasted over with slips of paper. Partially visible waqf seals by Kara Muṣṭafā Paşa (85r, probably erased on ff. 72r and 91r; no. 61 in Kut & Bayraktar) and Alī Seḥā (1v and 2r, no. 116 in Kut & Bayraktar) indicate that the manuscript was in Constantinople between 1091/1680 and 1186/1772-3. Another partially smudged round seal on f. 1r. Old shelfmarks: ‘hayʾa Ṭalʿat 16’ (1r, crossed out) and ‘hayʾa 6900’ (Iv).

Cod.: oriental paper, I+91+I ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals, Persian variants, with an inlaid sheet after f. 66; quire signatures on every tenth folio; catchwords only on ff. 8v–10v for the part supplemented by al-Ṣūfī). A very neat naskh hand, mostly dotted; hamzas and shaddas occasionally indicated; tashkīl on the first three folios often provided, then mostly omitted. On some folios the script is hastier with varying composition of the ink causing colour changes from brown to black (see a gradual change in script and colour on f. 27r). Additions by al-Ṣūfī in a less careful and irregular naskh; mostly dotted, hamzas and shaddas occasionally indicated, hardly any tashkīl. Oversized book headings in bold black thuluth (Books I–VIII) and in Early ʿAbbāsid script (Books IX–XIII), chapter headings and paragraph beginnings rubricated. Chapter beginnings additionally introduced by overlined bold abjad numerals in black; subsections numbered with red overlined abjad numerals in the margins. Hindu-Arabic and abjad numbers in the main text with overlines and occasionally rubricated. A rosette (52r). Numerous diagrams with lines in black and red, epicycles occasionally filled with colour (yellow 30r, green 36r, and red 37r). Numerous tables, sometimes incomplete (19r–20r, 68v–70v) or omitted (90r), with red double lines, abjad notation in black, and headers in red and black. Codex in good condition; some folds repaired with slips of paper; water damage in the lower margins and minor damage caused by insects, occasionally affecting the readability. Dimensions: 22×12 cm; mostly 35 lines per page. Dark brown leather covers with decorative frames and blind stamped corner pieces, small blind stamped central element in diamond shape; doublures decorated with Dalgalı Ebru. Type II binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–91v); Ptolemaica (66^bisr); two unidentified glosses on a geometrical proof and the determination of the position of Venus (66^bisv). Blank: none.

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. 530; vol. II, pp. 6–7 (no. 1/1/6); Mª 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, here pp. 263–265 and 312; Günay Kut and Nimet Bayraktar, Yazma eserlerde vakıf mühürleri, Istanbul: İmak Ofset Basım Yayın, 2021, pp. 151–152 (no. 61) and p. 255 (no. 116).

1v–⁠91v	\1v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية وأصليّ على عباده المخصوصين بالعناية والدراية سيّما محمّدًا وآله الموسومين بالنبوّة والولاية المنقذين من كلّ عماية وغواية. وبعد فقد كنت برهة من الزمان عازمًا على أن أحرّر لنفسيّ ولسائر طلبة العلم من الإخوان كتاب المجسطي المنسوب إلى بطلميوس القلوذي الذي هو الدستور العظيم لأصحاب صناعة الهيئة والتنجيم تحريرًا لا يفوته مقاصد ذلك الكتاب النظريّة — \91v\ يا، في خاتمة الكتاب، قال وإذ تممنا جميع ما نفتقر إلى إرشاده من وجود ما يحتاج إلى وجوده وتصحيح ما يحتاج إلى تصحيحه إلّا الشاذ بحسب ما وصل إليه علمي ومبلغ رأي وبقدر ما أعان الزمان عليه ودوّنا ما هو نافع في هذا العلم من غير أن قصدنا بذلك تكبّرًا أو افتخارًا فلنختم الكتاب. وأقول وإذ وفقّني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على الآية ومصليا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم اىتيابه(؟) والبردة من آله وأحبابه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Kitāb Taḥrīr al-Majiṣṭī lil-Imam al-ʿālim al-awhad al-ʿalāma Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī qadasa Allāh rawḥ-hi wa nawr ḍarīḥ-hi (1r). — Additional title: Kitāb Taḥrīr al-Majiṣṭī lil-Sayyid al-Sharīf Shams al-Milla wa-l-Dīn Muḥammad Ashraf al-Ḥusayn al-ʿUluwī al-Samarqandī (1r, crossed out). — Index: author’s preface, 1v; Book I, 1r–12r; II, 12v–20r; III, 20v–26v; IV, 27r–34v; V, 35r–44r; VI, 44v–52r; VII, 52v–58v; VIII, 58v–65v; IX, 65v–74v; X, 75r–77r; XI, 77v–82v; XII, 83r–86r; XIII, 86v–91v. — Incomplete authorial colophon. Dated scribal colophons for Book III: Wednesday, 30 Ramaḍān 670/20 April 1272; IV: Tuesday, 15 Dhū l-ḥijja 675/13 July 1272; V: 24 Dhū l-ḥijja 670/22 July 1272; VI: Sunday, 10 Muḥarram 671/7 August 1272; VII: 20 Rabīʿ al-thānī 671 (?)/14 November 1272; VIII: Wednesday, 9 Rabīʿ al-awwal 673/12 September 1274; as well as a note by Muḥammad b. al-Fatḥ al-Ṣūfī at the end of Book XIII dated 898/1492-3. This manuscript includes most of the glosses attributed to al-Ṭūsī, in the hand of the scribes and introduced with ḥāshiya. Marginal annotations and substantial glosses mostly in the scribe’s hand and trimmed. Minor marginal corrections in the hand of the main scribe mostly indicated by siglum ṣḥ.
66^bisr	\66^bisr\ ا كوكب الرأس وب كوكب الزحل وفي المجسطي لأوّل سنة من ملك أنطونينس طول ا ... وعرضه ... — \66^bisr\ فخرج الطول زائدا على ما أخذه بطلميوس بسبع وعشرين دقيقة والعرض زائدا على ما أخذه خمس وعشرين دقيقة فعرفنا أنّه قد تساهل فيه فعمل على التقريب دون التحقيق وذلك ما أردناه. = Fī Shakl al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (C.1.18c) . — Title: none. — One of the appendices usually found at the end of al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī, but here inserted after the beginning of Book IX on a smaller leaf in the hand of the scribe. The geometrical diagram that is normally included is missing. Furthermore, all spaces reserved in the text for rubricated numbers remain void. No corrections or glosses.

1v–⁠91v

\1v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية وأصليّ على عباده المخصوصين بالعناية والدراية سيّما محمّدًا وآله الموسومين بالنبوّة والولاية المنقذين من كلّ عماية وغواية. وبعد فقد كنت برهة من الزمان عازمًا على أن أحرّر لنفسيّ ولسائر طلبة العلم من الإخوان كتاب المجسطي المنسوب إلى بطلميوس القلوذي الذي هو الدستور العظيم لأصحاب صناعة الهيئة والتنجيم تحريرًا لا يفوته مقاصد ذلك الكتاب النظريّة — \91v\ يا، في خاتمة الكتاب، قال وإذ تممنا جميع ما نفتقر إلى إرشاده من وجود ما يحتاج إلى وجوده وتصحيح ما يحتاج إلى تصحيحه إلّا الشاذ بحسب ما وصل إليه علمي ومبلغ رأي وبقدر ما أعان الزمان عليه ودوّنا ما هو نافع في هذا العلم من غير أن قصدنا بذلك تكبّرًا أو افتخارًا فلنختم الكتاب. وأقول وإذ وفقّني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على الآية ومصليا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم اىتيابه(؟) والبردة من آله وأحبابه.

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

. — Title: Kitāb Taḥrīr al-Majiṣṭī lil-Imam al-ʿālim al-awhad al-ʿalāma Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī qadasa Allāh rawḥ-hi wa nawr ḍarīḥ-hi (1r). — Additional title: Kitāb Taḥrīr al-Majiṣṭī lil-Sayyid al-Sharīf Shams al-Milla wa-l-Dīn Muḥammad Ashraf al-Ḥusayn al-ʿUluwī al-Samarqandī (1r, crossed out). — Index: author’s preface, 1v; Book I, 1r–12r; II, 12v–20r; III, 20v–26v; IV, 27r–34v; V, 35r–44r; VI, 44v–52r; VII, 52v–58v; VIII, 58v–65v; IX, 65v–74v; X, 75r–77r; XI, 77v–82v; XII, 83r–86r; XIII, 86v–91v. — Incomplete authorial colophon. Dated scribal colophons for Book III: Wednesday, 30 Ramaḍān 670/20 April 1272; IV: Tuesday, 15 Dhū l-ḥijja 675/13 July 1272; V: 24 Dhū l-ḥijja 670/22 July 1272; VI: Sunday, 10 Muḥarram 671/7 August 1272; VII: 20 Rabīʿ al-thānī 671 (?)/14 November 1272; VIII: Wednesday, 9 Rabīʿ al-awwal 673/12 September 1274; as well as a note by Muḥammad b. al-Fatḥ al-Ṣūfī at the end of Book XIII dated 898/1492-3. This manuscript includes most of the glosses attributed to al-Ṭūsī, in the hand of the scribes and introduced with ḥāshiya. Marginal annotations and substantial glosses mostly in the scribe’s hand and trimmed. Minor marginal corrections in the hand of the main scribe mostly indicated by siglum ṣḥ.

66^bisr

\66^bisr\ ا كوكب الرأس وب كوكب الزحل وفي المجسطي لأوّل سنة من ملك أنطونينس طول ا ... وعرضه ... — \66^bisr\ فخرج الطول زائدا على ما أخذه بطلميوس بسبع وعشرين دقيقة والعرض زائدا على ما أخذه خمس وعشرين دقيقة فعرفنا أنّه قد تساهل فيه فعمل على التقريب دون التحقيق وذلك ما أردناه.

= Fī Shakl al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (C.1.18c)

. — Title: none. — One of the appendices usually found at the end of al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī, but here inserted after the beginning of Book IX on a smaller leaf in the hand of the scribe. The geometrical diagram that is normally included is missing. Furthermore, all spaces reserved in the text for rubricated numbers remain void. No corrections or glosses.