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Cairo, Dār al-kutub, hayʾa Qawala 1⁢⁢

[Low-quality black-and-white microfilm scans of the textblock; inspected by Flora Vafea in 2014.]

Acephalous single work: Arabic. Date:

undated; c. 1000/1600 (King).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

ownership statement by Abū l-Khayr Aḥmad dated 1129/1716-7 (1r; King). Undated statement of patronage (?) mentioning Abū l-Fatḥ Muḥammad Khān (1r; King). Owned by Muḥammad ʿAlī, the wālī of Egypt (1805–1848) in 1234/1818-9 (King, probably based on one of the seals); the codex was part of Muḥammad ʿAlī’s endowment to a library in his birthplace, the Greek city of Kavala, and was later relocated to Egypt. Several seals illegible on the microfilm.

Cod.: paper, 238 ff. (unfoliated; catchwords). A nastaʿlīq hand with tendency to naskh: almost fully dotted ductus, some hamzas, no shaddas or vowel marks visible except for maddas. Book and section headings and qawlu-hu / aqūlu in red. Diagrams carefully drawn in black and gold. Text area surrounded by a frame in blue and gold. Codex seemingly in good condition. Dimensions: 26×16 cm; 27 lines per page.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (2r–238r). Blank: 1v (except for the frame).

Bibl.: David A. King, Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʿilmiyya al-maḥfūẓa bi-Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣriyya, 2 vols, Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organisation, 1981–1986, vol. I, p. 637.

ff. 2r–⁠238r	\|\| \2r\أشكاله درج له بها يقصد المرء الزكيّ إلى النجم هو البحر لكن الدراري درّه فناهيك من درّ ونانيك (کذا) من يمّ — \238r\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة بشرى ويجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة وبشرى ورحم اللّه عبدًا قال آمينًا. تمّ. = Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) . — Title: al- Taḥrīr al-musammā bi-Tafsīr li-Taḥrīr (?) (library slip). — Index: preface, 2r–3v (acephalous); Book I, 3v–42v; II, 42v–61r; III, 61r–83v; IV, 83v–96v; V, 96v–122v; VI, 122v–154r; VII, 154r–161r; VIII, 161r–165v; IX, 165v–184r; X, 184r–191r; XI, 191r–200r; XII, 200r–217r; XIII, 217r–238r. The first page (f. 1v) unfilled. — Authorial colophon for all books except I, X and XIII; no scribal colophon. No marginal corrections or annotations visible on the microfilm.

ff. 2r–⁠238r

 || \2r\أشكاله درج له بها يقصد المرء الزكيّ إلى النجم هو البحر لكن الدراري درّه فناهيك من درّ ونانيك (کذا) من يمّ — \238r\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة بشرى ويجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة وبشرى ورحم اللّه عبدًا قال آمينًا. تمّ.

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

. — Title: al- Taḥrīr al-musammā bi-Tafsīr li-Taḥrīr (?) (library slip). — Index: preface, 2r–3v (acephalous); Book I, 3v–42v; II, 42v–61r; III, 61r–83v; IV, 83v–96v; V, 96v–122v; VI, 122v–154r; VII, 154r–161r; VIII, 161r–165v; IX, 165v–184r; X, 184r–191r; XI, 191r–200r; XII, 200r–217r; XIII, 217r–238r. The first page (f. 1v) unfilled. — Authorial colophon for all books except I, X and XIII; no scribal colophon. No marginal corrections or annotations visible on the microfilm.