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Edinburgh, University Library, Or. 396⁢

Single work: Arabic. Date:

finished in 1011/1602-3 (colophon, 128v).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

three erased seals, several partially erased statements, and two only partially legible seals (1r); an erased seal (128v). Owner’s statement dated 10 Jumādā l-ūlā 1169/31 January 1756-7 (1r). Owner’s statement in Persian dated 5 Ramaḍān1203/19 May 1789 (1r). Ex-libris ‘John Baillie’ (inside back cover), i.e., Lieutenant-Colonel John Baillie of Leys (1772–1833), who was a professor of Arabic and Persian at Fort William College in Calcutta from 1801 to 1807; his collection of oriental manuscripts was donated to Edinburgh University by his grandson John in 1876. Old shelfmark: ‘400’ (slip glued onto f. 1r, 128v, inside back cover). Ex-libris ‘Edinburgh University Library’ (back flyleaves).

Cod.: paper, 128 ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil on every fifth recto, skipping an inserted leaf after f. 54 and two empty leaves after f. 90; earlier foliation with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pen on every recto, with some irregularities and not always visible due to restorations; catchwords). A small naskh hand; frequently dotted ductus without any vowels, shaddas or hamzas. Book and section headings and abjad numerals in the text rubricated. Diagrams with red lines and black points, and occasionally vice versa. Numerous tables with red lines, red headers, and black tabular values; some of the tables left empty (e.g., 30v), some empty tables with black lines rather than red ones (e.g., 23r–24v); a rosette on f. 77v. Codex in bad condition; major damage by insects, some worm holes and water stains, numerous restorations on every single folio, several folios replaced. Dimensions: c. 27×14 cm, written area: c. 6⅔ cm wide; 27–34 lines per page. Modern binding with imprint ‘University Library Edinburgh’ on the spine.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: two notes on philosophical topics (1r); another philosophical note (1v, top margin); Ptolemaica (1v–128v). Blank: 7r, 8v, 16r, 25r, 90^bis–90^ter, 91r.

Bibl.: Mohammed Ashraful Hukk, Hermann Ethé and Edward Robertson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library, Hertford: Stephen Austin & Sons, 1925, pp. 351–352; 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, p. 309.

1v–⁠128v	\1v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كل مبدأ وغاية كل غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \128v\ فلنخـ{ـتم الكـ}ـتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصد {به} وإنجاز ما وعدته فلا قطع الكلام حامدًا لله تعالى 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: Majisṭī (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–17v; II, 18r–30v; III: 31r–40v; IV: 40v–51v; V: 51v–64v; VI: 64v–70r; VII: 70r–82v (with only the first one-and-a-half pages of the star catalogue included); VIII: 83r–88r (without the star catalogue); IX: 88v–100r; X: 100r–103v; XI: 104r–112v; XII: 113r–119v; XIII: 120r–128v. — Scribal colophon. Numerous glosses of significant length all through the manuscript, by several different hands. Qādī-Zāda’s gloss about the three well-known translations of the Almagest (1v).

1v–⁠128v

\1v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كل مبدأ وغاية كل غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \128v\ فلنخـ{ـتم الكـ}ـتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصد {به} وإنجاز ما وعدته فلا قطع الكلام حامدًا لله تعالى 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: Majisṭī (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–17v; II, 18r–30v; III: 31r–40v; IV: 40v–51v; V: 51v–64v; VI: 64v–70r; VII: 70r–82v (with only the first one-and-a-half pages of the star catalogue included); VIII: 83r–88r (without the star catalogue); IX: 88v–100r; X: 100r–103v; XI: 104r–112v; XII: 113r–119v; XIII: 120r–128v. — Scribal colophon. Numerous glosses of significant length all through the manuscript, by several different hands. Qādī-Zāda’s gloss about the three well-known translations of the Almagest (1v).