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Isfahan, Dānishgāh-i Iṣfahān, 567

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

finished on 5 Ṣafar 1020/19 April 1611 (177v).

Or.:

unknown, probably Isfahan (see below); copied by Muḥammad Muʾmin al-Iṣfahānī from the autograph (al-nuskha allatī kānat bi-khaṭṭ al-muṣannif) (177v); this manuscript served as the exemplar for MS Tehran, Malik, 3389, copied in Mashhad in 1051/1641, and most likely also for MS Istanbul, Ragıp Paşa, 914, copied in 1034/1624-5.

Prov.:

reading note by Abū Jaʿfar Kāfī b. Muḥtashim b. ʿAmīd b. Muḥammad b. Shāhanshāh al-Qāʾinī dated 1027/1617-8 in Isfahan (below the colophon, 177v); al-Qāʾinī composed two commentaries on the Almagest (C.1.48 and C.1.49) and issued a certificate of audition on behalf of the scribe of MS Tehran, Mahdawī, 486; Persian poems in al-Qāʾinī’s hand, attributed to Kamāl Ismaʿīl, Shaykh ʿAṭṭār, and an anonymous author (li-wāḥid min al-akābir) (1r, partially smeared). A partially erased rectangular seal with a religious invocation dated 〈1〉245/1829-30 (1v). Owner’s (?) name Muḥammad ʿAlī … (1r). Erased seals and statements (1r, 1v). Title page by the Shia scholar Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAlī Rawḍātī (1929–2012) stating that he purchased the codex at a high price from the remnants of the library of his maternal grandfather Shaykh Muḥammad Bāqir 〈b. Muḥammad Taqī Iṣfahānī, known as Āqā Najafī〉 (1846–1914) (Ir). Library stamps (Ir, 1r, 177v); registration no. 10656 with date 21.4.〈13〉54/12 July 1975 (Ir).

Cod.: paper, I+177+I^a ff. (unfoliated; five smaller sheets of paper inserted after ff. 12, 13, 14, 121, and 135; catchwords, sometimes trimmed). A careful nastaʿlīq hand; mostly dotted ductus with occasional vowel marks, very few hamzas, no shaddas. Book headings in black and red, centred and spread out over several lines; section headings in red, introduced by black, sometimes overlined abjad numerals; proposition numbers indicated by red overlined abjad numerals in the margins and by red crosses in the text; some use of red overlines for highlighting words such as qāla / aqūlu. Abjad numerals in red and/or overlined; Persian variants of Hindu-Arabic numerals in red. Carefully drawn diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points, occasionally vice-versa. Tables with red lines. Codex in very good condition; ff. 176–177 torn and restored; some stains; some damage due to moisture and insects. Dimensions: 25×15 cm; 19 lines per page. Dark brown leather covers with a damaged golden frame, reinforced with black leather strips; dark red doublures with golden rule-borders. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: modern title page (Ir); short note about the order in which the ‘Middle Books’ (al-Mutawassiṭāt) should be studied, copied from a manuscript in the hand of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, followed by the work title and name of the author, both said to have been copied from al-Ṭūsī’s autograph, and a Persian verse attributed to Ḥāfiẓ, (1r, all in al-Qāʾinī’s hand); Ptolemaica (1v–177v); sayings attributed to Muḥammad and Aristotle (177v, below the colophon, in al-Qāʾinī’s hand). Blank: Iv, 14^bisr (except for a red frame), I^ar–v.

Bibl.: Jaʿfar Ḥusayni Ishkawarī, Fihrist nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī Kitbkhāna-yi markazī wa-Markaz-i asnād-i Dānishgāh-i Iṣfahān, vol. II: (401–800), 2nd ed., Qom: Dānishgāh-yi Iṣfahān, 2009 (1388 H.S.), p. 434 (with an image of f. 177v on p. 435); FankhāMuṣṭafā Dirāyatī, Fihristgān-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Īrān (Fankhā), 45 vols, Tehran: Library, Museum and Documentation Center of The Islamic Consultative Assembly, 2011–2014 (1390–1393 H.S.), vol. VII, p. 214 (no. 28); 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. 267 (no. 26).

1v–⁠177v	\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \177v\ فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه. ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (1r, by al-Qāʾinī). — Additional titles: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (Ir, by Rawḍātī; 1r, top of the page, in a different hand). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–21r; II, 21r–37r; III, 37r–49r; IV, 49r–65r; V, 65r–82v; VI, 82v–97r; VII, 97r–110v; VIII, 110v–125r; IX, 125r–144r; X, 144r–148v; XI, 148v–159v; XII, 159v–166v; XIII, 166v–177v. — Dated scribal colophon (177v). Few marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe, indicated with siglum ṣḥ. Frequent long marginal corrections and annotations by al-Qāʾinī, including two long omitted parts of the text on inserted sheets (ff. 121^bis, 135^bis). Some marginalia attributed to al-Ṭūsī indicated with minhiyyāt, naqala min khaṭṭ al-muḥarrir, or variations thereof (e.g., 64r, 127r, 161r); most other annotations indicated with ḥ, Niẓām or nẓ, Birjandī or ʿbl; long annotations on the paper sheets 12^bis, 13^bis, and 14^bisv. Additional diagrams and figures in the margins from, for example, al-Nīsābūrī’s Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) (e.g., 12v, 13v) and al-Birjandī’s Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.44) (e.g., 95r, 159r).

1v–⁠177v

\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \177v\ فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه. ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.

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

. — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (1r, by al-Qāʾinī). — Additional titles: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (Ir, by Rawḍātī; 1r, top of the page, in a different hand). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–21r; II, 21r–37r; III, 37r–49r; IV, 49r–65r; V, 65r–82v; VI, 82v–97r; VII, 97r–110v; VIII, 110v–125r; IX, 125r–144r; X, 144r–148v; XI, 148v–159v; XII, 159v–166v; XIII, 166v–177v. — Dated scribal colophon (177v). Few marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe, indicated with siglum ṣḥ. Frequent long marginal corrections and annotations by al-Qāʾinī, including two long omitted parts of the text on inserted sheets (ff. 121^bis, 135^bis). Some marginalia attributed to al-Ṭūsī indicated with minhiyyāt, naqala min khaṭṭ al-muḥarrir, or variations thereof (e.g., 64r, 127r, 161r); most other annotations indicated with ḥ, Niẓām or nẓ, Birjandī or ʿbl; long annotations on the paper sheets 12^bis, 13^bis, and 14^bisv. Additional diagrams and figures in the margins from, for example, al-Nīsābūrī’s Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) (e.g., 12v, 13v) and al-Birjandī’s Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.44) (e.g., 95r, 159r).