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Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Landberg 493⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

finished in Jumādā l-ūlā 1235/February 1820 (colophon, 224v). This is followed by another date, presumably that of the exemplar, namely the morning of Friday, 25 Dhū l-ḥijja 1024/15 January 1616.

Or.:

unknown; copied by Masʿūd b. Shihāb al-Dīn al-Jīlī (colophon, 224v).

Prov.:

Note of possession by Sayyid Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī, who inherited the codex from his father Ghiyāth al-Dīn Muḥammad. A list of book titles (inside front cover). Several verses of Persian poems unrelated to the text (51v, 83v, 92r). Ex-libris ‘Bibliotheca Regia Berolinensis’ with shelfmark ‘Ms. Ldbg. 493’, possibly glued over an earlier ex-libris (inside of front cover); library stamp (1r).

Cod.: paper, 224 ff. (foliation with Arabic-European numerals in pencil; catchwords). A single small, black nastaʿlīq hand; only occasionally dotted, no vowels. Book and section headers in red, occasionally spaces for headers left empty, especially for qawlu-hu and aqūlu. Abjad numbers in red. Numerous neatly drawn diagrams; space for diagram left empty on f. 23r; spaces often not large enough for the diagrams (e.g., 29v, 184r, 185v, 219v), but in some cases the text appears to have been written around the diagrams (e.g., 69v, 153r). Three tables with red lines and black and red headers and numbers. Dimensions: 26⅔×19½ cm, written area: 15½×10 cm; 21 lines per page. Codex in good condition; first and last folios somewhat damaged at the edges. Brown leather cover with fore-edge flap, with significant wear. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. – Index: Ptolemaica (1v–224v). Blank: none.

Bibl.: Wilhelm Ahlwardt, Verzeichniss der arabischen Handschriften der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin, vol. V, Berlin: Asher, 1893, p. 144 (no. 5656), incorrectly suggests that Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī may be the author, cf. C.1.37. Qalamos: https://www.qalamos.net/receive/DE1Book_manuscript_00007150.

1v–⁠224v	\1v\ المقالة الأولى أربعة عشر فصلًا وستّة عشر شكلًا. الفصل ١ صدر الكتاب. أقول قد أشار بطلميوس في هذا الفصل إلى أقسام الفلسفة بقسمين — \224v\ فالتماس يكون تحصيلًا للحاصل وهو عند الحكيم باطل باطل بل التمس منه تعالى تثبيت ما خوّله وآتاه وأدامه ما خصّصه به واستثناه وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة ويسرى وتجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة وبشرى ويرحم الله عبد قال آمينا = Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) . — Title: Sharḥ Kitāb Taḥ… (inside front cover, on the scans partially covered by a slip of paper). — Index: preface omitted; Book I, 1v–41v; II (incorrectly indicated as al-maqāla al-ūlā), 41v–61v; III, 61v–84r, IV, 84r–96v; V, 96v–122r; VI, 122r–154v; VII (header omitted), 154v–161v; VIII, 161v–166v; IX, 166v–181r; X, 181r–187v; XI, 187v–195v; XII, 195v–209r; XIII, 209r–224v. — Dated authorial colophons except for Books I and XIII. Dated scribal colophon. Dated scribal colophon of the exemplar. Marginal corrections by the scribe and by another hand. No glosses.

1v–⁠224v

\1v\ المقالة الأولى أربعة عشر فصلًا وستّة عشر شكلًا. الفصل ١ صدر الكتاب. أقول قد أشار بطلميوس في هذا الفصل إلى أقسام الفلسفة بقسمين — \224v\ فالتماس يكون تحصيلًا للحاصل وهو عند الحكيم باطل باطل بل التمس منه تعالى تثبيت ما خوّله وآتاه وأدامه ما خصّصه به واستثناه وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة ويسرى وتجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة وبشرى ويرحم الله عبد قال آمينا

= Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38)

. — Title: Sharḥ Kitāb Taḥ… (inside front cover, on the scans partially covered by a slip of paper). — Index: preface omitted; Book I, 1v–41v; II (incorrectly indicated as al-maqāla al-ūlā), 41v–61v; III, 61v–84r, IV, 84r–96v; V, 96v–122r; VI, 122r–154v; VII (header omitted), 154v–161v; VIII, 161v–166v; IX, 166v–181r; X, 181r–187v; XI, 187v–195v; XII, 195v–209r; XIII, 209r–224v. — Dated authorial colophons except for Books I and XIII. Dated scribal colophon. Dated scribal colophon of the exemplar. Marginal corrections by the scribe and by another hand. No glosses.