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Manchester, John Rylands Library, Arabic 298⁢

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

undated; c. ad 1650 (Mingana).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

several erased seals (1r). Librarian’s note ‘ʿulūm-i riyāḍī’ (1r). Persian transcription of the name of Colonel George William Hamilton (1807–1868), who collected around one thousand Arabic and Persian manuscripts in India (Ir). Later the codex was part of the Bibliotheca Lindesiana, the collection of books and manuscripts of the astronomer and bibliophile James Ludovic Lindsay (1847–1913), the 26^th Earl of Crawford (book plate, inside of back cover). Old shelfmark: ‘Hamilton 93’, corrected to ‘Arabic 298’ (inside of back cover).

Cod.: paper, I+397 ff. (foliated with small Arabic-European numerals in pencil, skipping ‘320’ to ‘329’; catchwords). A single hand in Indian nastaʿlīq (Mingana). Book and section headers, qawlu-hu and uqūlu rubricated. Numerous neatly drawn diagrams. Codex in bad condition; significant stains all through the manuscript and significant damage by insects from f. 382 onwards, frequently hindering the reading; restorations of the fold and the lower inner parts of most folios in the first part of the manuscript and of all margins towards the end. Dimensions: 230×132 mm; 19 lines per page. Brown leather covers, scuffed at the edges; upper and lower cover stamped and enhanced with a large red leather panel, onlays in gold (probably also leather): a thick golden frame, an oval centre-piece, and pendants; headband in blue and white. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–397v). Blank: Iv.

Bibl.: James L. Lindsay, Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Hand-list of Oriental manuscripts. Arabic – Persian – Turkish, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press (private publication), 1898, p. 78 (no. 298, under ‘Ptolemy’); Alphonse Mingana, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library Manchester, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1934, cols 593–595 (no. 367).

1v–⁠397v	\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن ... \2r\ وبعد فمن المعلوم أنّ كتاب المجسطي المنسوب على بطلميوس القلوذي كتاب شهد له العالمون في اختراعه بالقدح المعالي — \397v\ وأمّ اللّهم بقدحي الرقيب والمعلّى ولست التمس بهذا الدعاء إثبات هذه الأشياء لوزير الوزراء \|\| = Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) . — Title: Nuskhat Sharḥ Majisṭī taṣnīf Niẓām al-Dīn Nīshābūrī dar ʿilm-i handasa (Ir). — Alternative title: Sharḥ Majisṭī (1r, cover); Ḥāshiya bar Taḥrīr-i Majisṭī li-l-ʿallāma al-Shīrāzī musammā bi-tafsīr al-Taḥrīr (1r); Ḥāshiya ʿallāma Shīrāzī bar Taḥrīr Majisṭī musammā bi-tafsīr al-Taḥrīr (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–5v; Book I, 5v–74v; II, 74v–106r; III, 106r–145r, IV: 145r–167r; V: 167r–210v; VI: 210v–252r; VII: 252r–264r; VIII: 264r–273r; IX: 273r–299r; X: 299r–312r; XI: 312r–338r; XII: 338r–364r; XIII: 364r–397v (incomplete at the end, breaks off in section XIII.9). — Authorial colophons for every book; authorial colophon for Book XIII and scribal colophon lost. Broad margins with only occasional corrections and additions. No glosses.

1v–⁠397v

\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن ... \2r\ وبعد فمن المعلوم أنّ كتاب المجسطي المنسوب على بطلميوس القلوذي كتاب شهد له العالمون في اختراعه بالقدح المعالي — \397v\ وأمّ اللّهم بقدحي الرقيب والمعلّى ولست التمس بهذا الدعاء إثبات هذه الأشياء لوزير الوزراء ||

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

. — Title: Nuskhat Sharḥ Majisṭī taṣnīf Niẓām al-Dīn Nīshābūrī dar ʿilm-i handasa (Ir). — Alternative title: Sharḥ Majisṭī (1r, cover); Ḥāshiya bar Taḥrīr-i Majisṭī li-l-ʿallāma al-Shīrāzī musammā bi-tafsīr al-Taḥrīr (1r); Ḥāshiya ʿallāma Shīrāzī bar Taḥrīr Majisṭī musammā bi-tafsīr al-Taḥrīr (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–5v; Book I, 5v–74v; II, 74v–106r; III, 106r–145r, IV: 145r–167r; V: 167r–210v; VI: 210v–252r; VII: 252r–264r; VIII: 264r–273r; IX: 273r–299r; X: 299r–312r; XI: 312r–338r; XII: 338r–364r; XIII: 364r–397v (incomplete at the end, breaks off in section XIII.9). — Authorial colophons for every book; authorial colophon for Book XIII and scribal colophon lost. Broad margins with only occasional corrections and additions. No glosses.