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Tehran, Kitābkhāna wa-mūza-yi millī-yi Malik, 3340⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

date of copying mentioned as … Jumādā l-ūlā 735/December 1334-January 1335 (p. 341); colophons with this date are included in the apparently much younger MS Tehran, Malik, 3412⁢⁢ and in MS Tehran, Majlis, 3846⁢⁢⁢.

Or.:

unknown, unknown scribe.

Prov.:

ownership statement by Muḥammad Yūnus, son of the late Shaykh Kāẓim al-Kāẓimī, with a seal mentioning the name Ismaʿīl (p. I). Two undated lists of books, upside-down, formerly belonging to Muḥammad Riḍā b. Ḥājī Muḥammad Ḥādī and intended for Ḥājī Ḥusayn ʿĀlī (p. II^a); the lists mention among others a copy of the Majisṭī, Sharḥ Majisṭī Niẓām, Sharḥ Majisṭī ʿAbd al-ʿAlī, and another Sharḥ … Majisṭī. At least five erased statements and four erased seals (p. I); an illegible oval seal (p. 341). A small oval seal ‘Muḥammad Ḥusayn’ (pp. 17, 99, 199 and 301) and a modern stamp with Roman letters ‘MH’ (pp. I and 341), commonly found in manuscripts of the Malik library. An ownership statement in nastaʿlīq and a stamp of the Malik Library with the current shelf mark, dated 16 Farvardīn 1331/5 April 1952 (p. I).

Cod.: paper, I+341+II^a pp. (paginated with Persian forms of odd Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil in the upper right corner of versos; catchwords, often omitted up to p. 117). A single naskh hand, gradually thinner and with tendency to nastaʿlīq towards the end; almost fully dotted ductus, some vowel marks. Book and section titles in bold thuluth; additional basmala for Book VII; qawlu-hu / aqūlu in red; propositions from section II.7 (p. 73) onwards mostly numbered with red overlined abjad numerals in the margins. Abjad numerals mostly overlined, some in red with or without overlines; Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals mostly overlined. Carefully drawn diagrams with black lines and red geometrical points and exceptionally vice versa. Tables with red lines. Dimensions: 23.6×15.7 cm; 29 lines per page (27 lines on pp. 1–13). Codex in good condition; water or moisture damage in the upper part of all pages; some margins restored. Red leather covers with frames. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (pp. 1–341). Blank: p. I^a.

Bibl.: Īraj Afshār and Muḥammad Taqī Dānishpazhūh, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Millī-yi Malik wābasta bih Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, Vol. I: Kitābhā-yi ʿarabī wa turkī, Tehran: Astān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 1973 (1352 H.S.), p. 150; FankhāMuṣṭafā Dirāyatī, Fihristgān-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Īrān (Fankhā), 45 vols, Tehran: Library, Museum and Documentation Center of The Islamic Consultative Assembly, 2011–13 1390, vol. VIII, p. 674 (no. 2).

pp. 1–⁠341	\p. 1\ السعد قرين من صدّر (كذا) كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة. واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر يمتري الزيادة. فأحمده على ما أوّلانا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض — \p. 341\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة يسرى ويجدّد 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 Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī az Niẓām Nishābūrī … (p. I). — Index: preface, pp. 1–4; Book I, pp. 4–62; II, pp. 63–93; III, pp. 94–132; IV, \mspp. 133–152; V, pp. 152–171 (end lost); VI, pp. 172–212 (beginning lost); VII, pp. 213–223; VIII, pp. 224–231; IX, pp. 232–255; X, pp. 256–268; XI, pp. 269–283; XII, pp. 284–309; XIII, pp. 310–341. Sections V.15 to VI.4 missing. — Dated authorial colophons for each book except XIII; dated scribal colophon, possibly of the exemplar. Marginal corrections in a hand similar to the scribe’s indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Some annotations in a fine taʿlīq hand with tendency to nastaʿlīq indicated, among others, by Birjandī (e.g., pp. 31, 45, 205) and li-muḥarrir (e.g., pp. 52, 92); some catch titles in a red tawqīʿ hand in the first part of the codex (e.g., pp. 57, 64); few annotations in at least one other hand, e.g., a thick nastaʿlīq (p. 64). Some collation marks blgh (e.g., pp. 15, 23, 80).

pp. 1–⁠341

\p. 1\ السعد قرين من صدّر (كذا) كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة. واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر يمتري الزيادة. فأحمده على ما أوّلانا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض — \p. 341\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة يسرى ويجدّد 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 Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī az Niẓām Nishābūrī … (p. I). — Index: preface, pp. 1–4; Book I, pp. 4–62; II, pp. 63–93; III, pp. 94–132; IV, \mspp. 133–152; V, pp. 152–171 (end lost); VI, pp. 172–212 (beginning lost); VII, pp. 213–223; VIII, pp. 224–231; IX, pp. 232–255; X, pp. 256–268; XI, pp. 269–283; XII, pp. 284–309; XIII, pp. 310–341. Sections V.15 to VI.4 missing. — Dated authorial colophons for each book except XIII; dated scribal colophon, possibly of the exemplar. Marginal corrections in a hand similar to the scribe’s indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Some annotations in a fine taʿlīq hand with tendency to nastaʿlīq indicated, among others, by Birjandī (e.g., pp. 31, 45, 205) and li-muḥarrir (e.g., pp. 52, 92); some catch titles in a red tawqīʿ hand in the first part of the codex (e.g., pp. 57, 64); few annotations in at least one other hand, e.g., a thick nastaʿlīq (p. 64). Some collation marks blgh (e.g., pp. 15, 23, 80).