PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ahmedabad, Dargah Hazrat Pir Muhammad Shah Library, 1010⁢

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Single incomplete work: Arabic.  Date:

1149/1736-7 (Desai, not confirmed, possibly based on one of the seals on f. 1r).

Or.:

unknown; copied by Amīr Muḥammad Hāshim (1r).

Prov.:

a faded round seal (1r); a square seal with a prayer, dated 1109/​1697-8 (1r); a square seal of Niẓam al-Dīn Muḥammad dated 1149/​1736-7 (67v). Waqf stamp of the family (khāndān) of Walī Llāh in Aḥmadābād, dated 1337/1918-9 (9v, 44r, 58v, 62bisv); oval library stamp with year 1335/​1916-7 (1r).

Cod.: paper, 67 ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pen in the top right area of versos, occasionally at other places due to the abundance of glosses, skipping a leaf after f. 62; no catchwords). A single elegant nastaʿlīq hand; dotted ductus with occasional vowel marks and hamzas. Chapter titles in red. Abjad and Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals as well as geometrical points in the text overlined. Diagrams in black; tables partially empty or entirely omitted. Codex in very bad condition; major damage due to moisture and/or fire, holes (ff. 28, 35, 48–50), entire margins restored from f. 61 onwards, up to f. 60 only the bottom margins in order to maintain the glosses. Dimensions: 26×15½ cm; written area: 14×7 cm; 9 lines per page.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–67v). Blank: 33r–34v.

Bibl.: Z. A. Desai, Ḥaḍrat Pīr Muḥammad Shāh Dargāh Sharīf Kutubkhāna. ʿArabī, fārsī, urdū-yi makhṭūṭāt kī waḍāḥatī fihrist, Vol. III: 801–1083 maʿa ḍamīna-yi ḍ 1–ḍ 39, Ahmedabad: Mohammedbhai Topiwala, 1992 (1371 H.S.), pp. 214–215; LAMTMª 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. 255 (no. 1).

1v–⁠67v

\1v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \67v\ ونحن حسبنا بهذا الوجه لعشرة عشرة من الأجزاء إذ لا يتفاوت فيما دون ذلك بسبب التفاضل شيء يعتدّ به فوجدناها هكذا وسائر الأرباع كهذا الربع. تمّت المقالة الأولى.

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

, only Book I. — Title: Maqāla-yi awwal-i Majisṭī (1r). Additional title: Majisṭī (front pastedown). — Index: preface, 1v, 3r (incomplete); Book I, 3r–v, 2r–v, 4r–67v. — No scribal colophon. Margins up to f. 60 entirely filled with sloppily written glosses by a different nastaʿlīq hand; these include generally sloppy diagrams but neat drawings of two instrument parts on f. 35v; numerous interlinear annotations up to f. 60 by the same hand as the glosses.