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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\ 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\ 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).