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Cairo, Dār al-kutub, hayʾa Ṭalʿat 46⁢⁢

[Black and white microfilm scans of the textblock; inspected by Flora Vafea in 2014.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

undated; c. 1100/1700 (King).

Or.:

unknown, unknown scribe.

Prov.:

ownership statement by Maḥmūd b. Ḥasan al-Nīshī or al-Nayashī (1r), probably the astronomer who was appointed as muwaqqit at the Süleymaniye mosque in Istanbul and died in 1223/1808 (see ʿUmar Riḍā Kaḥḥāla, Muʿjam al-muʾallifīn. Tarājīm muṣannifī al-kutub al-ʿarabiyya, 4 vols, Beirut: Muʾassasat al-Risāla, 1993, vol. III, pp. 802–803). A quote from Hājjī Khalīfa’s Kashf al-Ẓunūn about the Tafsīr al-Taḥrīr, followed by an unidentified statement or quote, both in ruqʿa (Ir).

Cod.: paper, I+225 ff. (foliated with large Hindu-Arabic numerals in the top margins of rectos, correcting an earlier foliation with Hindu-Arabic numerals in the upper left corners of rectos that skipped ‘16’; catchwords). A nastaʿlīq hand with tendency to naskh; almost fully dotted ductus, some vowel marks, few hamzas and very few shaddas. Book headings apparently not highlighted; basmala in large bold thuluth (1v); additional catch titles visible in the margins for Books II, III, V–VII and IX–XI. Abjad numerals sometimes overlined. Diagrams carefully drawn, occasionally extending onto fold-ins (144r, 147v). Codex seemingly in good condition. Dimensions: 32.0×12.0 cm; 27 lines per page.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: table of contents (Iv); Ptolemaica (1v–225r). Blank: presumably 225v.

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. 531.

1v–⁠225r	\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن رسيل لمن أعلق لسنة بشكر تميزي الزيادة فأحمده على ما أوّلانا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض — \225r\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة ويسرى وتجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة وبشرى ويرحم اللّه عبدًا قال آمينًا. = Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) . — Title: Kitāb Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī li-l-ʿālim al-fāḍil Niẓām al-milla wa-l-dīn al-Shaykh Ḥasan b. Muḥammad al-Nīsābūrī al-shahīr bi-Ibn al-Aʿraj (Ir). — Index: preface, 1v–3v; Book I, 3v–41r; II, 41r–59v; III, 59v–81v; IV, 81v–93v; V, 93v–118r; VI, 118r–149v; VII, 149v–156r; VIII, 156r–161r; IX, 161r–175r; X, 175r–182r; XI, 182r–190v; XII, 190v–206r; XIII, 206r–225r. — Dated authorial colophon for each book except XIII; no scribal colophon. Few marginal corrections and/or annotations in the hand of the scribe, some indicated by siglum ṣḥ.

1v–⁠225r

\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن رسيل لمن أعلق لسنة بشكر تميزي الزيادة فأحمده على ما أوّلانا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض — \225r\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة ويسرى وتجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة وبشرى ويرحم اللّه عبدًا قال آمينًا.

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

. — Title: Kitāb Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī li-l-ʿālim al-fāḍil Niẓām al-milla wa-l-dīn al-Shaykh Ḥasan b. Muḥammad al-Nīsābūrī al-shahīr bi-Ibn al-Aʿraj (Ir). — Index: preface, 1v–3v; Book I, 3v–41r; II, 41r–59v; III, 59v–81v; IV, 81v–93v; V, 93v–118r; VI, 118r–149v; VII, 149v–156r; VIII, 156r–161r; IX, 161r–175r; X, 175r–182r; XI, 182r–190v; XII, 190v–206r; XIII, 206r–225r. — Dated authorial colophon for each book except XIII; no scribal colophon. Few marginal corrections and/or annotations in the hand of the scribe, some indicated by siglum ṣḥ.