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London, British Library, Add. 23392⁢

Single work: Arabic. Date:

text completed on a Wednesday in Muḥarram 955/February-March 1548, figures completed during the last days of Jumādā al-thāniya 956/late July 1549 (colophon, 160r).

Or.:

Qazvin; copied by Ibn ʿAlī Muḥammad Ḥusayn (colophon, 160r).

Prov.:

statement of purchase by ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Raḥbī for 4 Ashrafī dinars on the first day of the month Rajab 1132/9 May 1720, with his seal (160r). Seal of Murtaḍā ʿAlī, dated 〈1〉164/1750-1 (160v, twice). Undated seal of Colonel Robert Taylor (1788–1852), political resident in Baghdad (2v); codex purchased from his widow on 14 April 1860 (I^av). Inscription ‘Mus. Brit. Bibl. Taylor’ on the spine; red stamp of the British Museum (2v). Old shelfmarks: ‘Plut. CCXXXI. D.’ (spine), ‘O.R. 23 Ag’ (inner back cover, with ‘231d’ crossed out).

Cod.: Eastern laid paper, 160+I^a ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil; ff. 61, 74 and 140 are smaller pieces of paper with tables on one side, while the empty leaf after f. 10 and a small slip after f. 107 were skipped in the numbering; catchwords). A single nastaʿlīq hand, in black. Book and section titles rubricated with section numbers in abjad; abjad and Hindu-Arabic numbers in red and/or with red overlines. Neatly drawn diagrams in the margins, with red lines and black points or, occasionally, vice versa; erased and redrawn diagrams on ff. 17r–v, 54r, 66r. Tables with red lines and black and red headers and values; empty tabular frame on f. 90r, rosette on f. 94v. Codex in acceptable condition; heavy water damage and mold in the upper half of all pages, occasionally hindering the reading; restorations in the fold throughout. Dimensions: 238×140 mm, written area: 133×65 mm; 25 lines per page. Red leather case binding with blind-stamped central medallion and four pendants, slightly damaged. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: extract from notes (taʿālīq) of Abū l-Qāsim ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. al-Shimshāṭī on a proof in Almagest XII.4 (2r, in a sloppy hand, with a diagram); Ptolemaica (2v–160r). Blank: 1r–v, 10^bisr–v, 38v, 61v, 74r, 140r, 107^ar.

Bibl.: William Cureton, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens. Supplementum, London: British Museum, 1871, p. 620 (no. mcccxxxviii); 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. 272 (no. 46). — Qatar Digital Library: https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100031940825.0x000001 [accessed 13 February 2024]; British Library Archives and Manuscripts (temporarily inaccessable).

2v–⁠160r	\2v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كل غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \159v\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ قد وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصد به وإيجاز (كذا) ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا لله تعالى على آلائه ومصليًّا على \160r\ جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبردة من آله وأحبّائه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (2v, in red, just above the seal of ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz). — Alternative title: ‘Nasir al-Din al-Tusi. Tahrir al-Mijisti’ (spine, transliterated). — Index: preface, 2v–3r; Book I, 3r–20v; II, 20v–33v; III, 33v–45v; IV, 45v–62r; V: 62r–79v; VI: 79v–95r; VII: 95r–104r; VIII: 104r–115r; IX: 115r–131r; X: 131r–135r; XI: 135r–144v; XII: 144v–150r; XIII: 150r–160r. — Interlinear references to propositions from Euclid’s Elements, Theodosius’ Spherics, astronomical parameters, etc. (e.g., 8r–9r). Marginal notes by multiple hands, occasionally trimmed.

2v–⁠160r

\2v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كل غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \159v\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ قد وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصد به وإيجاز (كذا) ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا لله تعالى على آلائه ومصليًّا على \160r\ جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبردة من آله وأحبّائه.

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

. — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (2v, in red, just above the seal of ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz). — Alternative title: ‘Nasir al-Din al-Tusi. Tahrir al-Mijisti’ (spine, transliterated). — Index: preface, 2v–3r; Book I, 3r–20v; II, 20v–33v; III, 33v–45v; IV, 45v–62r; V: 62r–79v; VI: 79v–95r; VII: 95r–104r; VIII: 104r–115r; IX: 115r–131r; X: 131r–135r; XI: 135r–144v; XII: 144v–150r; XIII: 150r–160r. — Interlinear references to propositions from Euclid’s Elements, Theodosius’ Spherics, astronomical parameters, etc. (e.g., 8r–9r). Marginal notes by multiple hands, occasionally trimmed.