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Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Or. 156⁢

Composite manuscript with two works: Arabic. Date:

undated, 7^th/13^th c. (Piemontese), certainly before 913/1507. The copying of the glosses by Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn b. Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī, known as Amīr al-Murtāḍ, was finished on 11 Muḥarram 913/23 May 1507 (235v; cf. Nallino).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

The codex consists of the two original manuscripts Palatina 283 (part 1, also referred to as Or. 156^a) and Palatina 282 (part 2, Or. 156^b, with a slightly larger paper size). Oval stamp ‘Bibl. Caes. Med. Palat.’ and small round stamp ‘Biblioteca Med. Laur. – Firenze’ (1r, 90v, 92r, 136v). Old shelfmarks: ‘cclxxxv’, ‘283’, ‘Cod. Laur. Orient. Palat. cclxxxiv (156)’ (1r); ‘cclxxxiv’, ‘282’ (92r).

Cod.: paper, 235 ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil in the bottom margin of rectos, including eight inlaid slips of paper with notes in part 2; separate foliation of part 1 in Arabic-European numerals in the upper left corner of rectos; two separate foliations of part 2 in the upper left corner of rectos, the one with Arabic-European numerals being one ahead of the one with Hindu-Arabic numerals and both skipping all inlaid slips; catchwords). Part 2: a single neat naskh hand; partially dotted ductus, occasional hamzas, no shaddas. Book and chapter titles in red; chapter numbers in abjad in bluish green. Abjad numbers and geometrical points in the text in red. Small diagrams in the body text; additional ones in the margins. Numerous tables in black and red, and a rosette (169v). Part 1 of the codex in good condition. Part 2 in bad condition; major stains in the middle of all pages, sometimes hindering the reading of the microfilm scans; restorations with slips of paper, occasionally covering significant parts of the body text and/or marginal notes (e.g., 129v–132v). Dimensions of part 2: 26.5×19 cm; 21 lines per page. Cardboard covers with white leather binding. Type III binding.

Cont.: astrology, astronomy. — Index: part 1: a collection of astrological materials (1v–90v); part 2: Ptolemaica (92v–235v). Blank: none.

Bibl.: Josephus Simonius Assemanus, Bibliothecae Medicae Laurentianae et Palatinae codicum mss. orientalum catalogus, Florence: Albiziano, 1742, p. 391 (nos cclxxxiv and cclxxxv); Carlo Alfonso Nallino, al-Battānī sive Albatenii opus astronomicum. Ad fidem codicis Escurialensis arabice editum. Latine versum, adnotationibus instructum, 3 vols, Milano: Ulrico Hoepli, 1899–1907, vol. II, p. xii; Angelo Michele Piemontese, ‘Nasîr Al-Dîn Tûsî, Tahrîr al-Magistî (Recension de l’Almageste). Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (Orientale 156)’, in Charles Méla and Frédéric Möri (eds), Alexandrie la divine, Genève: Éditions de la Baconnière, 2014, vol. II, p. 1099 and Fig. 146.

92v–⁠235v	\92v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ فضيلة وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \235v\ وللسفليّين خمسة صفوف أحدها لمبادئ البروج والأربعة الباقية للظهورات والاختفاءات المسائيّة والصباحيّة. ي في الجداول. [table] \|\| = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (1r). — Index: preface: 92v–93r; Book I: 93r–107v, II: 107v–121v; III: 121v–131r; IV: 131r–143v; V: 143v–156r; VI: 156r–170r; VII: 170r–181r; VIII: 181v–193v; IX: 193v–207v; X: 207v–211r; XI: 211r–219v; XII: 220r–226r; XIII: 226r–235v. — Last page (and hence a possible colophon) lost. Numerous interlinear notes in a different hand. Major marginal corrections and glosses all through the manuscript.

92v–⁠235v

\92v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ فضيلة وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \235v\ وللسفليّين خمسة صفوف أحدها لمبادئ البروج والأربعة الباقية للظهورات والاختفاءات المسائيّة والصباحيّة. ي في الجداول. [table] ||

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

. — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (1r). — Index: preface: 92v–93r; Book I: 93r–107v, II: 107v–121v; III: 121v–131r; IV: 131r–143v; V: 143v–156r; VI: 156r–170r; VII: 170r–181r; VIII: 181v–193v; IX: 193v–207v; X: 207v–211r; XI: 211r–219v; XII: 220r–226r; XIII: 226r–235v. — Last page (and hence a possible colophon) lost. Numerous interlinear notes in a different hand. Major marginal corrections and glosses all through the manuscript.