PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ahmedabad, Dargah Hazrat Pir Muhammad Shah Library, 1010⁢⁢⁢

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Incomplete single 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); square seal of Niẓam al-Dīn Muḥammad (67r). Waqf stamp of the family (khāndān) of Walī Allāh 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. Chapter titles in red. Diagrams in black; tables partially empty or entirely omitted. Codex in very bad condition; major stains due to moisture 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, vol. III, 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). Alternative title: Majisṭī (front pastedown). — Index: preface, 1v, 3r; Book I, 2r–v (misplaced), 3r–67v. — No scribal colophon. Margins up to f. 60 entirely filled with sloppily written glosses by a different 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.