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Tehran, Kitābkhāna wa-mūza-yi millī-yi Malik, 3412⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

undated; 11^th/17^th c. (Afshār & Dānishpazhūh).

Or.:

unknown, unknown scribe; date of copying mentioned as .. Jumādā l-ūlā 735/December 1334-January 1335 (p. 588); colophons with this date are included in the apparently much older MSS Tehran, Malik, 3340⁢⁢ and Tehran, Majlis, 3846⁢⁢⁢.

Prov.:

a rectangular seal ‘Ḥusayn …’ dated 1275 (?)/1858-9 (p. I). An oval seal ‘ʿAbdu-hū al-Rājī Dāwud al-Ḥusaynī’ (?) (p. I). A partially faded oval seal of al-Qāḍī …, accompanied by the words ‘min al-Qāḍī’ (p. I, twice). A small rectangular seal ‘Muḥammad …’ (p. I^a). A small oval seal ‘Muḥammad Ḥusayn’ (pp. 17, 99, 199, 299, 399, 501) and a modern stamp with Roman letters ‘MH’ (pp. I, I^a) commonly found in manuscripts of the Malik library. A stamp of the Malik Library with the current shelf mark, dated 17 Farvardīn 1331/6 April 1952 (p. I).

Cod.: paper, I+588+I^a pp. (paginated with Persian forms of odd Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil in the top right corner of versos, skipping a leaf after p. 249; catchwords). A single clear naskh hand; almost completely dotted ductus; some vowel marks and hamzas, final kāfs indicated with a second smaller kāf or stroke above. Book and chapter headings in red; additional basmala for Book VII; qawlu-hu / aqūlu in red, but often omitted. Abjad numerals with black or sometimes red overlines; Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals not highlighted. Carefully drawn diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or vice versa, from p. 353 onwards entirely in black with geometrical points occasionally lacking (e.g., pp. 168, 341, 347). Tables with red lines. Codex in very good condition; few stains (e.g., pp. 174–175, 180–181), last folio torn. Dimensions: 26×18.4 cm; 23 lines per page. Covers and flap of dark brown leather, decorated with goldish borders; doublures of light brown leather decorated with thin goldish borders. Type II binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (pp. 1–588). 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. 10).

pp. 1–⁠588	\p. 1\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر يمتر (كذا) الزيادة فأحمده على ما أوّلانا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض — \p. 588\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة ويسرين (كذا) ويجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة وبشرين (كذا) ويرحم اللّه عبدًا قال آمينًا. = Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) . — Title: none. — Index: preface, pp. 1–6; Book I, pp. 6–102; II, pp. 102–148; III, pp. 148–205; IV, pp. 205–234; V, pp. 234–292; VI, pp. 292–373; VII, pp. 373–391; VIII, pp. 391–404; IX, pp. 404–444; X, pp. 444–464; XI, pp. 464–488; XII, pp. 488–532; XIII, pp. 532–588. — Dated authorial colophons for Books I–VIII and XI; dated colophon from the exemplar. Very few marginal corrections by the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Marginal annotations in the hand of the scribe, possibly serving as indicators for rubrications (e.g., pp. 10, 22, 25); Shia religious invocations visible in some margins (e.g., pp. 1, 190).

pp. 1–⁠588

\p. 1\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر يمتر (كذا) الزيادة فأحمده على ما أوّلانا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض — \p. 588\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة ويسرين (كذا) ويجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة وبشرين (كذا) ويرحم اللّه عبدًا قال آمينًا.

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

. — Title: none. — Index: preface, pp. 1–6; Book I, pp. 6–102; II, pp. 102–148; III, pp. 148–205; IV, pp. 205–234; V, pp. 234–292; VI, pp. 292–373; VII, pp. 373–391; VIII, pp. 391–404; IX, pp. 404–444; X, pp. 444–464; XI, pp. 464–488; XII, pp. 488–532; XIII, pp. 532–588. — Dated authorial colophons for Books I–VIII and XI; dated colophon from the exemplar. Very few marginal corrections by the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Marginal annotations in the hand of the scribe, possibly serving as indicators for rubrications (e.g., pp. 10, 22, 25); Shia religious invocations visible in some margins (e.g., pp. 1, 190).