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Alexandria, al-Maktaba al-baladiyya, 12591 D

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Single acephalous work: Arabic. Date:

finished in the afternoon (ẓuhr) of Monday, 20 Rabīʿ al-thānī 1037/Wednesday, 29 December 1627 (160v).

Or.:

copied by Murtaḍā b. Muḥammad Muʾmin (160v).

Prov.:

subject al-hayʾa wa-l-falak and accession number ‘3598 D’ (Iv). Oval library stamps Kutubkhānat majlis baladī Iskandariyya in purple (49r, 101r, 152r, 160v, I^ar).

Cod.: paper, I+160+II ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil, with 18 and 19 following f. 4 although the order of the leaves is correct; two inserted sheets after ff. 49 and 50; catchwords). A single black naskh hand with tendency to nastalīq; almost fully dotted ductus. Book and section headings as well as abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals in red; sections numbered with abjad numerals or written-out ordinal numbers. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points, occasionally vice versa. Tables with red lines, some left empty (e.g., 26r–27r); a rosette (88r). Codex in very good condition; minor damage by insects, some stains. Dimensions: 19×13.5 cm; 22 lines per page. Heavily damaged dark-red leather covers with a lobed central mandorla with lobed pendants, an inner rule border and an outer frame; brown leather spine; restored red leather flap. Type II binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1r–160v). Blank: 12v, I^a.

Bibl.: Yūsuf Zaydān, Fihris makhṭūṭāt Baladiyyat al-Iskandariyya, vol. I: Al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʿilmiyya (al-ṭabīʿiyyāt – al-riyāḍiyyāt – al-falak – al-ṭibb), Alexandria: Al-Hayʾa al-ʿāmma li-Maktabat al-Iskandariyya, 1996 (1417 AH), p. 76 (no. 38); LAMTMª José Parra, ‘A List of Arabic Manuscripts of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī’, Suhayl 16–17 (2018–2019), pp. 251–322, p. 255–256 (no. 2).

1r–⁠160v	\|\| \1r\احتياج إلى زيادة اهتمام وإنّما تكلّفت ذلك لكون الكتاب علمًا بين أهل العلم ينصّون عليه في محاوراتهم — \160v\ فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أنبيائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (Iv). — Index: preface: 1r (only the last seven lines); Book I, 1r–22r; II, 22r–38v; III, 38v–49v; IV, 49v–63v; V, 63v–77r; VI, 77r–88r; VII, 88r–102v; VIII, 103r–117v; IX, 117v–131r; X, 131r–134v; XI, 134v–144r; XII, 144r–151r; XIII, 151r–160v. Book VII headed al-maqāla al-khāmisa. — No authorial colophon; dated scribal colophon. Extensive glosses in nearly all margins of ff. 1r–57r (including the two inserted sheets), only very few marginal corrections in the remainder of the codex, all in the hand of the scribe.

1r–⁠160v

 || \1r\احتياج إلى زيادة اهتمام وإنّما تكلّفت ذلك لكون الكتاب علمًا بين أهل العلم ينصّون عليه في محاوراتهم — \160v\ فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أنبيائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.

= Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18)

. — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (Iv). — Index: preface: 1r (only the last seven lines); Book I, 1r–22r; II, 22r–38v; III, 38v–49v; IV, 49v–63v; V, 63v–77r; VI, 77r–88r; VII, 88r–102v; VIII, 103r–117v; IX, 117v–131r; X, 131r–134v; XI, 134v–144r; XII, 144r–151r; XIII, 151r–160v. Book VII headed al-maqāla al-khāmisa. — No authorial colophon; dated scribal colophon. Extensive glosses in nearly all margins of ff. 1r–57r (including the two inserted sheets), only very few marginal corrections in the remainder of the codex, all in the hand of the scribe.