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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi Majlis-i shurā-yi Islāmī, 21 S⁢⁢⁢⁢⁢

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

Wednesday, 16 Ramaḍān 823/25 September 1420 (230r).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

an ownership statement in thuluth by Muḥammad Ṣādiq b. Muḥammad Taqī al-Munajjim, with an oval seal (IIr); owner’s name Muḥammad Ṣādiq al-Munajjim, with a small oval seal (1r); two similar calligraphic ownership statements in the style of a tughra, both by Muḥammad Ṣādiq al-Munajjim (1r); a note of inheritance in large thuluth by Muḥammad Sādiq al-Munajjim (with his oval seal, dated 1066/1655-6, under the statement) in favour of his son al-Aghar Muḥammad Ashraf (1r); note of transfer to Muḥammad Ismāʿīl from his deceased father Muḥammad Ashraf al-Munajjim, with a rectangular seal (1r); the same family of astronomers from Gonabad also owned MSS London, BL, Or. 8227; Tehran, Majlis, 1464 S, and Tehran, University, microfilm 2885). A note on the contents of this manuscript by Muḥammad ʿAlī … b. al-Ḥusaynī and several Persian poems in the same hand, one dated 27 Jumādā l-ūlā 1208 (?)/31 December 1793 (Iv, I^av). An ownership statement by Muḥammad ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ, dated 6 (?) Dhū l-qaʿda 1256/December-January 1840-1, with two impressions of his oval seal (1r). A short note describing the translations of the Almagest and the commentaries by al-Ṭūsī and al-Nīsābūrī, written around the round seal of ʿAbbās ʿAlī (1r). Ownership statement by Muḥammad Taqī al-Munajjim al-Jawharī (?), with a rectangular seal (IIr). Calligraphic owner’s name Qāsim b. Jaʿfar b. ʿAlī b. Mūsā al-Ṣafawī (IIr). Round stamps of the Kutubkhāna-yi Majlis-i Sinā (Senate Library), overstamped (45v, 230v) or crossed out (IIr). Transferred from the Kitābkhāna-yi Majlis-i Sinā; old shelfmark: ‘2271’.

Cod.: paper, II+230+I^a ff. (unfoliated; ff. 106–108, 111, 123–126, and 209–211 smaller [probably trimmed] but written by the same hand; catchwords). A single sometimes careless nastaʿlīq hand with tendency to naskh in black; scarcely dotted ductus. Book and section headings mostly in enlarged bold black thuluth, occasionally in red. Qawlu-hū / aqūlu in red. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals in red, partially overlined; geometrical points in the text partially overlined in black. All rubrication omitted from section VIII.5 onwards. Diagrams with black lines and red geometrical points, rarely vice versa. Tables with black lines and red values. Codex in acceptable condition; significant water damage in the margins, but not hindering the reading; various stains; first and last pages damaged and restored; binding partially loose. Dimensions: 30×18 cm, written area: 20×13 cm; 31 lines per page. Brown leather covers over cardboards decorated with a lobed central mandorla with two tiny pendants, small corner-pieces and a frame; light-brown leather pastedowns. Type II binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: a historical note on eclipses (1r); Ptolemaica (1v–230r); certificate confirming that Mūsā b. Fatḥ Allāh b. al-Naṣīr al-Laḥīdānī, born in Ardabil, read to Muḥammad b. al-Saʿīd ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Nakhjawanī: Euclid’s Elements, al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī, al-Shīrāzī’s Tuḥfa, and al-Nīsābūrī’s commentaries on the Tadhkira and the Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (230v). Blank: IIv, I^ar.

Bibl.: NashriyyaNashriyya-yi Kitābkhana-yi Markaz-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 14 vols, Tehran: Kitābkhana-yi Markaz-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 1961–1977, vol. II, p. 224; Muḥammad Taqī Dānishpazhūh and Bahāʾ al-Dīn ʿIlmī Anwārī, Fihrist-i kitābhā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Majlis-i Sinā, vol. I, Tehran: Kitābhāna-yi Majlis-i Sinā, 1976 (1355 H.S.), p. 10; 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. 8).

1v–⁠230r	\1v\ 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 — \230r\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظه فلحظه سعادة ويسرى وتجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة ويشرى ويرحم اللّه عبدًا قال آمينا. = Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) . — Title: Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī li-mawlā Niẓām al-Dīn al-Nīshābūrī (1r). — Additional Titles: Sharḥ Majisṭī Nīshābūrī mawlā Niẓām al-Dīn Muḥammad (1r); Sharḥ-i Majisṭī kih anrā Nīshābūrī nawashta ast (1r); Sharḥ Majistī (sic, Ir, IIr). — Index: preface, 1v–3v; Book I, 3v–44v; II, 44v–62v; III, 62v–83v; IV, 83v–94v; V, 94v–119r; VI, 119r–151v; VII, 151v–158v; VIII, 158v–163v; IX, 163v–179r; X, 179r–186r; XI, 186r–195r; XII, 195r–211r; XIII, 211r–230r. — Dated authorial colophons for each book. Dated scribal colophon. Marginal corrections, including many of several lines, marked with ṣḥ; collation marks blgh (e.g., 88v, 94v, 119r). Glosses through the entire codex, partially in red (e.g., 83v–84v, 93r–94r, 96r–99r), some marked with siglum mwl (e.g., 84r, 209r, 227r–v), some on a fold-in (65v, 209r).

1v–⁠230r

\1v\ 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 — \230r\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظه فلحظه سعادة ويسرى وتجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة ويشرى ويرحم اللّه عبدًا قال آمينا.

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

. — Title: Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī li-mawlā Niẓām al-Dīn al-Nīshābūrī (1r). — Additional Titles: Sharḥ Majisṭī Nīshābūrī mawlā Niẓām al-Dīn Muḥammad (1r); Sharḥ-i Majisṭī kih anrā Nīshābūrī nawashta ast (1r); Sharḥ Majistī (sic, Ir, IIr). — Index: preface, 1v–3v; Book I, 3v–44v; II, 44v–62v; III, 62v–83v; IV, 83v–94v; V, 94v–119r; VI, 119r–151v; VII, 151v–158v; VIII, 158v–163v; IX, 163v–179r; X, 179r–186r; XI, 186r–195r; XII, 195r–211r; XIII, 211r–230r. — Dated authorial colophons for each book. Dated scribal colophon. Marginal corrections, including many of several lines, marked with ṣḥ; collation marks blgh (e.g., 88v, 94v, 119r). Glosses through the entire codex, partially in red (e.g., 83v–84v, 93r–94r, 96r–99r), some marked with siglum mwl (e.g., 84r, 209r, 227r–v), some on a fold-in (65v, 209r).