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Tehran, Kitābkhāna wa-mūza-yi millī-yi Malik, 3363⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

finished in 862/1457-8 (p. 346).

Or.:

unknown, unknown scribe(s); the short colophon does not mention the name of the scribe but is accompanied by a partially impressed, oval seal (p. 346).

Prov.:

undated ownership statement by Faḍl Allāh Muḥammad al-ʿUrayḍī al-Ḥusaynī, with his oval seal (p. III); statement of transfer by Muḥsin b. ʿAzīz Allāh al-ʿUrayḍī dated 1003/1594-5 (p. III); undated statement of transfer by Ibn Khwāja Kalān Muḥammad Qāsim Surkhāb (p. III), with an oval seal (also on pp. I, I^a); undated statement of transfer by Muḥammad b. ʿAlī known as Ibn Khātūn al-ʿĀmilī, with his oval seal (p. III); statement of transfer to the brother of al-ʿĀmilī (?), dated 1038/1628-9 (p. III). Undated statement of ownership by ʿAlī Naqī b. Muḥammad Naṣīr (p. III). A Persian statement of purchase by Āqā Muḥammad Ibrahīm (p. I). A note about the way of writing degrees, minutes and seconds, in red (p. III). The title Taḥrīr Uqlīdis in Hebrew script in pencil, followed by a partially erased note in pencil, apparently the same title in Arabic script (I^a). A price (?) in tuman (front doublure) and two erased notes (Ia). ‘№ 81’ in Latin script (p. I). A small oval seal ‘Muḥammad Ḥusayn’ (pp. 17, 99, 199, 299) and a modern stamp with Roman letters ‘MH’ (pp. III, I^a) commonly found in manuscripts of the Malik library. A stamp of the Malik Library with the current shelf mark, dated 16 Farvardīn 1331/6 April 1952 (p. III).

Cod.: paper, III+346+I^a pp. (paginated with odd Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil in the upper right corner of versos, skipping ‘285’; catchwords, sometimes trimmed). Two hands. First hand: naskh with tendency to nastʿalīq (pp. 1–299; 33 lines per page); mostly dotted ductus; some maddas and hamzas, shaddas only in the preface. Second hand: nastʿalīq with minor tendency to naskh (pp. 300–346; 31 lines per page); almost completely undotted ductus; hardly any vowel marks, hamzas or shaddas. Book headings by the first hand in red, by the second hand in black thuluth with red overlines; section headings by the first hand rubricated, by the second hand in bold black with red overlines; some propositions, mostly in the part copied by the second hand, numbered with red abjad numerals with red overlines in the margins; qawlu-hu / aqūlu in red. Abjad and Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals only rarely highlighted. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points; a diagram of an instrument on a piece of paper glued onto p. 164; a diagram on a piece of paper glued onto p. 310. Tables with red lines. Codex in bad condition; heavy water damage throughout (including the doublures), with ink frequently bleeding or smudging, occasionally rendering the text illegible (but less so in the part copied by the second hand); lower half of p. III and few corners and margins (e.g., ff. 250–251, 346–I^a) restored with pieces of paper; covers heavily worn. Dimensions: 25.6×17.4 cm. Black leather covers decorated with a centre-piece (on the front cover with pendants) and corner-pieces, all lobed with floral motifs and surrounded by borders; dark-brown leather doublures decorated with a small centre-piece with pendants and borders. Type III binding, formerly type II (traces of a flap on p. I^a).

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: an anonymous excerpt Hādhā burhān dhakara al-muṣannif raḥima-hu Allāh ʿalā qawli-hi fī l-Tadhkira, with three diagrams (p. II); Ptolemaica (pp. 1–346). Blank: none.

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.), pp. 150–151; 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. 675 (no. 5).

pp. 1–⁠346	\p. 1\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة. واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر يمتري الزيادة. فأحمده على ما أوّلانا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض — \p. 346\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادًة ويسرى 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: Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī al-musammā bi-Tafsīr al-Taḥrīr (p. I). — Additional Title: Sharḥ al-Majisṭī (front doublure). — Index: preface, pp. 1–4; Book I, pp. 4–65; II, pp. 65–92; III, pp. 92–129; IV, pp. 129–149; V, pp. 149–189; VI, pp. 190–241; VII, pp. 242–252; VIII, pp. 252–259; IX, pp. 259–281; X, pp. 281–294; XI, pp. 294–305; XII, pp. 305–323; XIII, pp. 323–346. — Dated authorial colophons at the end of each book except I and XIII; dated scribal colophon. Some marginal corrections by both hands, indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Minor marginal annotations in different, although similar hands, including some preserved in the autograph MS Tunis, Waṭaniyya, 3663⁢ and in MS Istanbul, Süleymaniye, Carullah 1485 (pp. 165, 167, 169).

pp. 1–⁠346

\p. 1\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة. واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر يمتري الزيادة. فأحمده على ما أوّلانا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض — \p. 346\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادًة ويسرى 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: Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī al-musammā bi-Tafsīr al-Taḥrīr (p. I). — Additional Title: Sharḥ al-Majisṭī (front doublure). — Index: preface, pp. 1–4; Book I, pp. 4–65; II, pp. 65–92; III, pp. 92–129; IV, pp. 129–149; V, pp. 149–189; VI, pp. 190–241; VII, pp. 242–252; VIII, pp. 252–259; IX, pp. 259–281; X, pp. 281–294; XI, pp. 294–305; XII, pp. 305–323; XIII, pp. 323–346. — Dated authorial colophons at the end of each book except I and XIII; dated scribal colophon. Some marginal corrections by both hands, indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Minor marginal annotations in different, although similar hands, including some preserved in the autograph MS Tunis, Waṭaniyya, 3663⁢ and in MS Istanbul, Süleymaniye, Carullah 1485 (pp. 165, 167, 169).