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Cambridge, University Library, Eton Pote 264

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

992/1584-5 (title page, probably referring to the first hand, unconfirmed) and Tuesday, 12 Dhū l-qaʿda 1131/26 September 1719 (colophon by the second hand, 437r).

Or.:

Fatehpur, India; the first codicological entity (1v–399v) copied by order of Sheikh … (?), the second entity (400r–437r) copied by Muḥammad ʿĀbid Abū ʿAbd al-Karīm, who is said to have been proficient in the mathematical sciences (1r, 437r).

Prov.:

a seal and statement dated 1021/1612-3, another seal together with a note dated 1069/1658-9 (1r), some erased seals and smudged or faded notes (1r). The book was part of the library of Colonel Antoine-Louis Henri Polier (1741–1795) and was gifted to Eton College by Edward Ephraim Pote (d. 1832) in 1788 (Fihrist). Old shelfmarks: ‘606’ (Polier) in Arabic numerals (front cover, fore-edge), ‘N. 264’ (1r), ‘Eton College Library 62’ (inside of back cover) and ‘Eton shelf 6/15’ (1r).

Cod.: paper, 437 ff. (unfoliated; catchwords, partially copied onto the pasted pieces of paper used for the restoration of the codex). Two different clear hands in black. First hand (1v–399v): naskh written with a thick-nibbed pen. Second hand (400r–437r): an elegant naskh tending to nastaʿlīq; mostly dotted ductus; hardly any shaddas, vowels and hamzas. Chapter headings in red, paragraphs partially indicated by red overlines. Figures and tables in red and black, sometimes trimmed in the margins. Dimensions: 25.3×15.7 cm, written area: 20×10.5 cm; 23–25 lines per page (no ruling). Codex in mediocre condition; several moisture stains (post-dating the restoration) and damage caused by insects; repairs with pasted paper strips in the margins and in the text area, especially towards the end of the first part; binding becoming loose. Brown leather covers over paper pasteboards; blind-stamped medallion with pendants and floresque ornaments on front and back cover; doublures decorated with marble paper, orange endband. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–437r); a proof extracted from al-Birjandī’s commentary on the Tadhkira (47^bis); a loose page in a different hand from an unidentified Persian manuscript (inserted between ff. 316v and 317r). Blank: none.

Bibl.: David S. Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Oriental Manuscripts in the Library of Eton College, Oxford: Horace Hart, 1904, p. 12 (no. 62). — Fihrist – Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World: https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/manuscript_15401.

1v–⁠437r	\1v\ الحمد لله الذي جعلنا من المتفكّرين في خلق السموات والأرض وألهمنا طريق معرفة مقادير حركات الأجرام النيّرة في الطول والعرض — \437r\ والحمد لله أوّلًا وآخرًا وباطنًا وظاهرًا والصلوة والسلام على زبدة الليالي والأيّام محمّد سيّد الثقلين وخير الأنام وآله الأخيار العظام وشيعته الأبرار الكرام. = al-Birjandī, Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.44) . — Title: al-Sharḥ li-l-Taḥrīr (2v). Index: preface, 1v–3r; Book I, 3r–81r; II, 81r–120v; III, 120v–161v; IV, 161v–187v; V, 187v–239r; VI, 239r–283v; VII, 283v–311r; 〈VIII〉, 311r–350r; IX, 350v–382v; X/XI, 382v–403r/393r–407r; XII, 407r–419r; XIII, 419r–437r. — Dated authorial colophon; dated scribal colophon. Marginalia in different hands both on the original paper and on restorations, often indicated with reference mark ‘12’ in Hindu-Arabic numerals; diagrams in the margins sometimes trimmed, few corrections in the hand of the scribe introduced by siglum ṣ or ṣḥ.

1v–⁠437r

\1v\ الحمد لله الذي جعلنا من المتفكّرين في خلق السموات والأرض وألهمنا طريق معرفة مقادير حركات الأجرام النيّرة في الطول والعرض — \437r\ والحمد لله أوّلًا وآخرًا وباطنًا وظاهرًا والصلوة والسلام على زبدة الليالي والأيّام محمّد سيّد الثقلين وخير الأنام وآله الأخيار العظام وشيعته الأبرار الكرام.

= al-Birjandī, Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.44)

. — Title: al-Sharḥ li-l-Taḥrīr (2v). Index: preface, 1v–3r; Book I, 3r–81r; II, 81r–120v; III, 120v–161v; IV, 161v–187v; V, 187v–239r; VI, 239r–283v; VII, 283v–311r; 〈VIII〉, 311r–350r; IX, 350v–382v; X/XI, 382v–403r/393r–407r; XII, 407r–419r; XIII, 419r–437r. — Dated authorial colophon; dated scribal colophon. Marginalia in different hands both on the original paper and on restorations, often indicated with reference mark ‘12’ in Hindu-Arabic numerals; diagrams in the margins sometimes trimmed, few corrections in the hand of the scribe introduced by siglum ṣ or ṣḥ.