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Rampur, Raza Library, Arabic 3695⁢⁢⁢⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

undated; 11^th/17^th c. (ʿArshī). A large number of dated collation statements span the period from 23 Dhū l-ḥijja 1194 to 16 Muḥarram 1195/20 December 1780–12 January 1781 (5r, 8v, 9r, 18v, …, 293, 302v, 305v).

Or.:

collation carried out in Lucknow; unknown copyist. The name of the collator is erased from all collation statements but the codex is said to have been corrected by Tafaḍḍul Ḥusayn Khān on f. 1r.

Prov.:

three erased rectangular seals (1r). A statement of transfer from Muḥammad Ḥimāyat Allāh Khān (?) to an erased name (1r). An ownership statement of Abū Muḥammad, known as Saʿd Allāh, dated to the last day (salkh) of Jumādā l-thāniya 1267/1 May 1851 (1r); the large elaborate round seal of al-Qāḍī al-muftī Muḥammad Saʿd Allāh b. Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥanafī (1804–1877), dated 1278/1861-2, faded or smeared (1r); an elaborate rectangular seal with floral motifs (322r). Oval stamp of the ‘Kutubkhāna-yi Riyāsat-i Rāmpūr’, the precursor of the Raza Library (1r, 322r). Old shelfmarks (?): ‘hayʾa 53’ and ’44 ? jadīd’ (1r); old shelfmark: ‘S.T. 1405’ with date 28.10.95 (1r); accession no. ‘686 D’. Registration number (?) ‘686’, with date 5 October ’98 (1r). MAMSGalina P. Matvievskaya and Boris A. Rozenfeld, Matematiki i astronomy musul′manskogo srednevekov′ya i ikh trudy (VIII-XVII vv.), 3 vols, Moscow: Nauka, 1983, and hence MAOSICBoris A. Rosenfeld and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and their Works (7th–19th c.), Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture (IRCICA), 2003 and the ISMI database, refer to this manuscript as ‘I 930’.

Cod.: paper, 322 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pen on rectos, often cut off from the scans, first visible on f. 61, with two unnumbered leaves from a different codex inserted after f. 119; a foliation with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil reaching ‘188’ on f. 194, with several irregularities; traces of another foliation with pen; catchwords). At least four different hands in black: a naskh hand with 25 lines per page (1v–118r, 150r–321v), a nastaʿlīq hand with 29 lines per page (118v–149v), a naskh hand with 22 lines per page on the inserted leaves (119^bis–119^ter), and a nastaʿlīq hand with 22 lines per page on the last folio (322r–v); all four hands fully dotted. Book and chapter titles and qawlu-hu / aqūlu in red. Frequent use of black and red overlines. Several words and passages highlighted (or erased?) with violet or green ink (e.g., 167v, 170r, 196r). Diagrams with red lines and black labels, some omitted. Tables with red lines. Codex in bad condition; all inner margins restored; major damage by insects, restored with transparent tape sometimes hindering the reading; all margins of ff. 119^bis–119^ter restored. Dimensions: 23.4×14 cm. Modern half-bound covers. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–322v). Blank: none.

Bibl.: Muḥammad Ajmal Khān, Fihrist-i kutub-i ʿarabī-yi mawjūda-yi Kutubkhānah-yi Riyāsat-i Rāmpūr, Rampur: Maṭbaʻ Aḥmadī, 1902, p. 428 (hayʾat no. 60); Imtiyāz ʿAlī ʿArshī, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in Raza Library, Rampur, Vol. V: Mathematics, Medicine, Natural Science, Agriculture, Occult Sciences, Ethics & Politics, Education & Military Science, Rampur: Raza Library, 1975, pp. 42/43 (no. 686 D).

1v–⁠322v	\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر يمتري الزيادة فأحمده على ما أوّلينا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض — \322v\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة ويسرى ومجدّد (كذا) له ساعة فساعة كرامة وبشرى ويرحم الله عبدًا قال آمينا. [formulae] = Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) . — Title: Tafsīr Taḥrīr Majisṭī Niẓām (1r). — Alternative titles: Tafsīr Taḥrīr Majisṭī dar ʿilm riyāḍī (1r), Sharḥ Majisṭī (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–5r; Book I, 5r–67v; II, 67v–93v; III, 93v–122v; IV, 122v–131v; V; 131v–156r; VI, 156r–204v; VII, 204v–214r; VIII, 214r–221v; IX, 221v–246v; X, 246v–257r; XI, 257r–270r; XII, 270r–293r; XIII, 293r–322r. The inserted folios 119^bis–119^ter contain parts of chapters III.9 and 10, apparently intended to replace text missing in the manuscript, but not exactly filling up the gap. — Dated authorial colophons for all books except III and XIII (for Book IV in the margin). No scribal colophon. Numerous careful marginal corrections by the scribe and by the collator; extensive dated collation statements at the end of nearly every book, numerous dated shorter ones in the middle of books (see above). Some annotations.

1v–⁠322v

\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر يمتري الزيادة فأحمده على ما أوّلينا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض — \322v\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة ويسرى ومجدّد (كذا) له ساعة فساعة كرامة وبشرى ويرحم الله عبدًا قال آمينا. [formulae]

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

. — Title: Tafsīr Taḥrīr Majisṭī Niẓām (1r). — Alternative titles: Tafsīr Taḥrīr Majisṭī dar ʿilm riyāḍī (1r), Sharḥ Majisṭī (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–5r; Book I, 5r–67v; II, 67v–93v; III, 93v–122v; IV, 122v–131v; V; 131v–156r; VI, 156r–204v; VII, 204v–214r; VIII, 214r–221v; IX, 221v–246v; X, 246v–257r; XI, 257r–270r; XII, 270r–293r; XIII, 293r–322r. The inserted folios 119^bis–119^ter contain parts of chapters III.9 and 10, apparently intended to replace text missing in the manuscript, but not exactly filling up the gap. — Dated authorial colophons for all books except III and XIII (for Book IV in the margin). No scribal colophon. Numerous careful marginal corrections by the scribe and by the collator; extensive dated collation statements at the end of nearly every book, numerous dated shorter ones in the middle of books (see above). Some annotations.