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London, British Library, Or. 17⁢⁢

[Colour photographs of the textblock and covers.]

A single work and several excerpts: Arabic. Date:

part of the main work written by the second hand finished in 777/1375-6 (104r).

Or.:

unknown; second hand by ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Bukhārī al-Ṣayrafī, known as ʿAlāʾ al-Nabīhī (104r, here seemingly written as al-Tanbīhī); he authored the theological commentary Sharḥ jawāhir al-kalām in 770/1369 in Isfahan (Charles Rieu, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum, London: British Museum, 1894, pp. 113–114, no. 188).

Prov.:

the manuscript was acquired from the heirs of Reverend George Cecil Renouard (1780–1867) on 27 March 1867 (note on f. I^av). Numerous stamps of the British Museum. Former shelfmarks (?): ‘O.R. 34. A.g.’ and ‘290. c.’ (I^ar).

Cod.: paper, 105+I^a ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil; earlier foliation with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pen ranging from 1 to 110 with many irregularities; occasional catchwords). Two hands. First hand (2v–65v): a neat naskh; mostly dotted ductus, very frequent vowel marks, shaddas and hamzas, frequent use of rubrication. Second hand (69r–104r): a sloppy naskh with tendency to nastaʿlīq; mostly dotted ductus, some vowel marks and shaddas, few hamzas. Excerpts (1r–v, 105r–v) in a sloppy, mostly dotted nastaʿlīq hand. Headings for Books I–VII in red, IX–XIII in bold black; section headings by the first hand in red and introduced by red overlined abjad numerals, by the second hand in bold black and introduced by overlined bold black abjad numerals; propositions numbered in the margins with red overlined abjad numerals. Abjad numerals in red or in black with overlines; Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in red with overlines. Carefully drawn diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or occasionally vice versa. Tables with red lines; some empty tables for part of the star catalogue (65v–68v). Spaces reserved for some diagrams and for almost all tables in the part copied by the second hand. Codex in good condition; water damage in the upper and lower margins, minor restorations. Brown leather covers with golden borders; marbled paper pastedowns. Dimensions: not provided; 33 lines per page (misṭara imprints). Type II binding.

Cont.: astronomy, mathematics. — Index: excerpt from section 3 of Ghiyāth al-Dīn al-Kāshī’s Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb (1r); two unidentified mathematical excerpts (1v); Ptolemaica (2v–104r); two short unidentified astronomical excerpts; Ptolemaica (105r); a short excerpt entitled Faṣl fī taʿdīl al-ayyām bi-layālī-hā (105v); anonymous, al-Bāb al-sābiʿ fī maʿrifat taqwīm al-kawākib al-khamsa al-mutaḥayyira and al-Bāb al-sādis fī maʿrifat taqwīm al-qamar (105v); anonymous, Aghrāḍ maqālāt Uqlīdis (105v). Blank: 18v, 74r–v, 84v, 86v, 88r, 89r, 90v, 101r, 102r, 104v.

Bibl.: William Cureton, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens. Supplementum, London: British Museum, 1871, p. 745 (no. mdclvi); Peter Stocks and Colin F. Baker, Subject-Guide to the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Library, London: The British Library, 2001, p. 383.

2v–⁠104r	\2v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \104r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا للّه على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه ومسلمًا (كذا). = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Taḥrīr Kitāb al-Majisṭī li-Baṭlamyūs (2r). — Additional Title: Majisṭī fī l-hayʾa (tail). — Index: preface, 2v; Book I, 2v–14r; II, 14r–23r; III, 23r–29r; IV, 29r–39v; V, 39v–49v; VI, 49–58r; VII, 58r–65v (end missing); VIII, 69r–72r (beginning missing); IX, 72r–80v; X, 80v–83r; XI, 83r–91r; XII, 91r–96r; XIII, 96r–104r. — No authorial colophon; dated scribal colophon. Marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ; frequent marginal annotations in the hand of the scribe, mostly in the first part and partially introduced by the word ḥāshiya.
f. 105r	\105r\ ا كوكب الرأس وب كوكب الرجل في الفصل ٢ من ١٠ المجسطي لأوّل سنة من ملك أنطونس طول ا  و م وعرضه ز ك — وهو خطّ ه ا ويكونه ضعف خطّ ب ه عرفنا صحّحه العمل. = Fī Shakl al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (C.1.18c) . — Title: none. — End missing. Name of the Roman emperor struck out and corrected above.

2v–⁠104r

\2v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \104r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا للّه على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه ومسلمًا (كذا).

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

. — Title: Taḥrīr Kitāb al-Majisṭī li-Baṭlamyūs (2r). — Additional Title: Majisṭī fī l-hayʾa (tail). — Index: preface, 2v; Book I, 2v–14r; II, 14r–23r; III, 23r–29r; IV, 29r–39v; V, 39v–49v; VI, 49–58r; VII, 58r–65v (end missing); VIII, 69r–72r (beginning missing); IX, 72r–80v; X, 80v–83r; XI, 83r–91r; XII, 91r–96r; XIII, 96r–104r. — No authorial colophon; dated scribal colophon. Marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ; frequent marginal annotations in the hand of the scribe, mostly in the first part and partially introduced by the word ḥāshiya.

f. 105r

\105r\ ا كوكب الرأس وب كوكب الرجل في الفصل ٢ من ١٠ المجسطي لأوّل سنة من ملك أنطونس طول ا  و م وعرضه ز ك — وهو خطّ ه ا ويكونه ضعف خطّ ب ه عرفنا صحّحه العمل.

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

. — Title: none. — End missing. Name of the Roman emperor struck out and corrected above.