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Chicago, The Newberry Library, Ayer Collection 745⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

copied at the end of Ṣafar 1077/early September 1666 (216r).

Or.:

unknown; copied by Muḥammad Shafīʿ, son of the well-known Ḥakīm Farbadfī (?) (216r; MacDonald).

Prov.:

owned by the renowned American bibliographer Henry Stevens (1819–1886) and his son Henry Newton Stevens (1855–1930), who also collected and catalogued all printed versions of Ptolemy’s Geography; in 1898 this collection was purchased by Edward A. Ayer (see Henry N. Stevens, Ptolemy’s Geography. A Brief Account of all the Printed Editions down to 1730, 2ⁿᵈ ed., London: Henry Stevens, Son and Stiles, 1908, pp. 2–3). Inserted printed sheet of the ‘Henry Stevens Ptolemy Collection’ with mention of the binder W. Pratt. Old shelfmark: ‘XV’ (1r).

Cod.: paper, 217 ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil at the bottom left of rectos; double earlier foliation with Hindu-Arabic numerals on the left side under and above the text frame on versos, with some irregularities; no catchwords). A black nastaʿlīq hand; dotted ductus, final hamzas, no shaddas. Headings and abjad numerals rubricated, proposition numbers in red abjad in the margins. Tables and figures in black and red; rosette in black and red on an inserted sheet (162v). Brownish frames around the text area and red outer rule-borders for marginalia. Coloured images of the constellations in the star catalogue (109r–140v). Codex in good condition except for the damaged first and last leaves; some restorations with small pieces of paper. Dimensions: 19×12 cm; 21 lines per page. Soft oriental leather binding in a European leather slip-case (MacDonald). Type III binding.

Cont.: Astronomy. – Index: Ptolemaica (1v–216r). Blank: 216v–217v (except for the frames).

Bibl.: Duncan B. MacDonald, The Arabic and Turkish Manuscripts in the Newberry Library, Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1912, pp. 8–9 (no. XV); Ruth L. Butler, A Check List of Manuscripts in the Edward E. Ayer Collection, Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1937, p. 89 (no. 745); 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. 265 (no. 21). Newberry Library Online catalogue: https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma999022998805867.

1v–⁠216r	\1v\ [toc] \2v\ أحمد الله مبداء كلّ مبداء وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية – \215v\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ قد وفّقني الله تعلى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته، فلأقطع \216r\ الكلام حامدًا له على الآيه (كذا) ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . – Title: none. – Index: table of contents, 1v–2r (also in the margins); preface, 2v–3r; Book I, 3r–22r; II, 22v–40v; III, 40v–54r; IV, 54r–70r; V, 70r–88r; VI, 88r–103v; VII, 103v–126r; VIII, 126v–148v; IX, 148v–172r; X, 172r–178r; XI, 178v–191v; XII, 191v–201v; XIII, 201v–216r. — Scribal colophon. Numerous interlinear corrections, also by a different hand. Abundant glosses throughout the entire codex by a certain Abkār Fikra (?, MacDonald).

1v–⁠216r

\1v\ [toc] \2v\ أحمد الله مبداء كلّ مبداء وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية – \215v\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ قد وفّقني الله تعلى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته، فلأقطع \216r\ الكلام حامدًا له على الآيه (كذا) ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.

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

. – Title: none. – Index: table of contents, 1v–2r (also in the margins); preface, 2v–3r; Book I, 3r–22r; II, 22v–40v; III, 40v–54r; IV, 54r–70r; V, 70r–88r; VI, 88r–103v; VII, 103v–126r; VIII, 126v–148v; IX, 148v–172r; X, 172r–178r; XI, 178v–191v; XII, 191v–201v; XIII, 201v–216r. — Scribal colophon. Numerous interlinear corrections, also by a different hand. Abundant glosses throughout the entire codex by a certain Abkār Fikra (?, MacDonald).