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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi markazi-i Dānishgāh-i Tehrān, 9504⁢⁢⁢⁢⁢

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

a Saturday at the end of Rabīʿ al-awwal 1012/6 September 1603 (399v).

Or.:

the Raḍawiyya madrasa in Shiraz; copied by Muḥammad Muʾmin b. Malik Muḥammad Tabrīzī (399v).

Prov.:

a small circular seal ‘al-Mw?r al-Dīn Hr jī hī’ in one of the corners of numerous rectos and versos (e.g., 54v, 107r, 109v). Owner’s name ‘Muḥammad Ibrāhīm’ (1r). Two ownership statements by Jaʿfar b. Luṭf Allāh al-ʿĀmilī … al-Jaʿfarī (1r, 400r). Ownership statement of Muḥammad Taqī b. Muḥammad Riḍā al-Rāzī in Isfahan, dated 1057 (1r); an oval seal ‘Ghulām ʿAlī Muḥammad Taqī’ (1r). Owner’s name ‘Aḥmad’ with date 1107/1695-6 and a rectangular seal (1r). Statement of purchase by Muḥammad Majīd b. Shafīʿ Yazdī from the bookseller Nūrāʾyī, with an illegible seal (1r). An oval seal of Abū Turāb al-Fayḍī, dated 1122/1710-1 (1r). An oval seal of ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Fayḍī, dated 1203 (1r); a large rectangular seal of ʿAbd al-Bāqī Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad … (400r); a Persian statement of borrowing from the heir of Mīrzā ʿAbd al-Bāqī Fayḍī (Ir); statement that this copy of al-Nīsābūrī’s Tafsīr once belonged to the deceased father of ʿAbd al-Bāqī, later was deposited with Āghā Mīrzā Naṣr Allāh al-Ḍarrābī, and was obtained from ʿAbd al-Wahhāb in the Year of the Rat 1293/1876-7, with ʿAbd al-Wahhāb’s rectangular seal (Iv). A small oval seal ‘Yā ʿAlī’ with date ..12 (?) (2r). A Quranic verse (1r). Several more erased or illegible seals. Blind-stamped library seals (e.g., 1r, 400r).

Cod.: paper, I+400 ff. (unfoliated; a slip of paper with a diagram glued in on f. 299r, not included in our folio count; catchwords). A single quick nastaʿlīq hand; partially dotted ductus, with frequent elongated bowls, descenders and ascenders. Book and section titles and abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals in red in a more elegant nastaʿlīq hand. Geometrical points in the text overlined. Diagrams with thin dark-red lines and black geometrical points. Tables with thin dark-red double-lines. Codex in acceptable condition; significant water stains on the edges and in the lower half of the fold, especially towards the end of the manuscript; mold at the bottom of the last twenty folios. Dimensions: 19×10 cm, written area: 14×6 cm; 19 lines per page. Dark-brown leather covers over cardboard with some wear; modern paper pastedowns with a diagonal check motif. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: a sloppily written Persian fāʾida on a geometrical proof (Ir); Ptolemaica (1v–400r); a sloppily written Persian note on finding the lunar mean motions (400v). Blank: 298^bisv.

Bibl.: Muḥammad Taqī Dānishpazhūh, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi markazī wa Markaz-i Asnād-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, Vol. XVII: Az shumāra-yi 8001 tā 10050, Tehran: Muʾassasa-yi Intishārāt wa Chāp-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 1985 (1364 H.S.), p. 386; 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. 14).

1v–⁠401r	\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 — \399r\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة ويسرى وتجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة وبشرى ويرحم الله عبدًا قال آمينا. ... \399v\ [quotations] [colophons]. = Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) . — Title: Sharḥ Majisṭī Mullā Niẓam al-Dīn Aʿraj (1r, Iv). — Index: preface, 1v–5r; Book I, 5r–74r; II, 74r–105r; III, 105r–144v; IV, 144v–165r; V, 165r–210r; VI, 210r–264v; VII, 264v–276v; VIII, 276v–284v; IX, 284v–308v; X, 308v–321v; XI, 321v–336v; XII, 336v–365r; XIII, 365r–400r. — Dated authorial colophon for every book, including the autograph statement as found in MS Tunis, Waṭaniyya, 3663⁢ (399r–v). Dated scribal colophon, followed by quotations said to have been found on the back of the autograph that mention Abū l-ʿAbbas Faḍl b. Ḥātim Nayrīzī’s commentary on the Almagest, al-Bīrūnī’s al-Qānūn al-Masʿūdī and two other works by him, and Abū l-Qāsim Rāfiʿī’s Dar al-tadwīn fī taʾrīkh Qazwīn. A short prayer is written by the scribe at the top of every page. Marginal corrections; collation marks blgh in the hand of the scribe (e.g., 109r, 170v). Annotations stemming from al-Ṭūsī himself in the hand of the scribe (minhiyyāt, e.g., ff. 28r, 34r, 36v–37r, 43r). Some glosses in a sloppy nastaʿlīq (e.g., 27v, 38r, 46r, 64r–v, 66v).

1v–⁠401r

\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 — \399r\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة ويسرى وتجدّد له ساعة فساعة كرامة وبشرى ويرحم الله عبدًا قال آمينا. ... \399v\ [quotations] [colophons].

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

. — Title: Sharḥ Majisṭī Mullā Niẓam al-Dīn Aʿraj (1r, Iv). — Index: preface, 1v–5r; Book I, 5r–74r; II, 74r–105r; III, 105r–144v; IV, 144v–165r; V, 165r–210r; VI, 210r–264v; VII, 264v–276v; VIII, 276v–284v; IX, 284v–308v; X, 308v–321v; XI, 321v–336v; XII, 336v–365r; XIII, 365r–400r. — Dated authorial colophon for every book, including the autograph statement as found in MS Tunis, Waṭaniyya, 3663⁢ (399r–v). Dated scribal colophon, followed by quotations said to have been found on the back of the autograph that mention Abū l-ʿAbbas Faḍl b. Ḥātim Nayrīzī’s commentary on the Almagest, al-Bīrūnī’s al-Qānūn al-Masʿūdī and two other works by him, and Abū l-Qāsim Rāfiʿī’s Dar al-tadwīn fī taʾrīkh Qazwīn. A short prayer is written by the scribe at the top of every page. Marginal corrections; collation marks blgh in the hand of the scribe (e.g., 109r, 170v). Annotations stemming from al-Ṭūsī himself in the hand of the scribe (minhiyyāt, e.g., ff. 28r, 34r, 36v–37r, 43r). Some glosses in a sloppy nastaʿlīq (e.g., 27v, 38r, 46r, 64r–v, 66v).