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Mashhad, Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 5453⁢⁢

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Collection of a main work and three short appendices: Arabic. Date:

undated; 9^th/15^th c. (Gulchīn Maʿānī).

Or.:

unknown, copied by Sayyid Bāyizīd b. Sayyid Jamāl (90r); main work (and probably also the appendices) copied directly or indirectly from an exemplar dated Tuesday, 6 Muḥarram 722/26 January 1322 which was copied by Ḥamza b. ʿAlī b. Ḥamza al-Qazwīnī al-Bayhaqī, known as Saʿd al-Khurāsānī, at Soltaniyeh (84v); this exemplar is MS London, BL, IO Islamic 1148, from which also a note on the dependence on the autograph next to the colophon was copied.

Prov.:

a fāʾida on abjad numerals in a naskh hand and authored by a certain Muḥammad Ṣādiq (90v). A note on al-Ṭūsī and his writings in a nastaʿlīq hand (II^ar). Two poems in Persian about spiritual love, one of them by a certain Aṭwār (III^ar). An erased statement (90v). A partially visible stamp of the former Kitābkhana-yi Riḍwān, established by Mīrzā Riḍā Khān Nāʾīnī Qāḍī Nūr in 1349/1930-1 (1r); this manuscript, together with several other Ptolemaic manuscripts, was bequeathed by Nāʾīnī to the Āstān-i Quds in Murdād 1311/July-August 1932 (library slip and note in green ink on f. 1r). Several contemporary library stamps.

Cod.: paper, 90+III^a ff. (foliated with Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals, repeating ‘67’; catchwords). Main hand: nastaʿlīq; mostly dotted ductus, occasional vowel marks, few shaddas and hamzas. Parts of the text (lower half of 1v, 29r–34v) were supplemented by a second nastaʿlīq hand. Book headings rubricated, except for Book VIII; sections introduced by overlined abjad numerals; propositions numbered with red overlined abjad numerals in the margins. Abjad numerals mostly overlined in red; Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals mostly in red or overlined in red. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or vice versa. Tables with red lines. Codex in good condition; occasional water or moisture damage (e.g., ff. 26–28, 32), some stains and smudges; some margins and folds restored (e.g., ff. 38, 43, 90–III^a), lower half and margins of f. 1r restored. Dimensions: 26×16.5 cm, written area: 18.5×8.5 cm; 29 lines per page (supplementary hand: 27 lines per page). Leather covers. Type III binding, previously type II (traces of the flap on ff. 1–3 and 90–III^a).

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–84v, 87r); Ptolemaica (84v–85r); Ptolemaica (85v–86v, 89r, 88v); Ptolemaica (89v–90r). Blank: 13r, 18r, 75r, 78v, 87v–88r, I^ar.

Bibl.: Aḥmad Gulchīn Maʿānī, Fihrist-i kutub-i khaṭṭī-i Kitābkhāna-i Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, vol. VIII, Mashhad: Intishārāt-i Kitābkhāna-i Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 1971 (1350 H.S.), p. 68 (no. 80); 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. VII, p. 213 (no. 12); 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. 276 (no. 52).

1v–⁠84v, 87r	\1v\ الحمد للّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \84v\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني اللّه تعالى لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته 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 Majisṭī (library slip). — Index: preface, 1v; Book I, 1v–11r; II, 11r–20v; III, 20v–26r; IV, 26r–35v; V, 35v–43v; VI, 43v–49v; VII, 49v–54r; VIII, 54r–59v; IX, 59v–68r; X, 68r–70v; XI, 70v–75v; XII, 75v–79v; XIII, 79v–84v, 87r (in disorder). Folio 87r contains two tables from sections XIII.4 and 5. — Dated scribal colophon. Some marginal corrections by the main hand indicated by siglum ṣḥ; frequent marginal annotations in the main hand, mostly using the siglum ‘12’ and to a lesser extent nẓ. Frequent annotations in a nastaʿlīq hand with clear tendency to naskh, similar to the supplementary hand and indicated by ‘li-muḥarrari-hi Muḥammad Ṣādiq al-Khurāsānī’, possibly the author of the fāʾida on f. 90v. A collation mark blgh (11v).
84v–⁠85r	\84v\ [title] ا كوكب الرأس وب كوكب الزحل وفي المجسطي لأوّل سنة من ملك أنطونينس طول ا  و م \85r\ وعرضه ز ك — فخرج الطول زائدًا على ما أخذ بطلميوس تسع وعشرين دقيقة والعرض زائدًا على ما أخذ بخمس وعشرين دقيقة فعرفنا أنّه قد تساهل فيه وعمل على التقريب دون التحقيق واللّه أعلم بالحقيقة. = Fī Shakl al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (C.1.18c) . — Title: Fī Tashakkul al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (84v). — This treatise starts immediately after the colophon of the Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī. No colophon. A minor marginal correction (85r, in the fold).
85v–⁠86v, 89r, 88v	\85v\ نريد أن نثبت اختلافات وقوع الخطوط في الأشكال التي يعرف منها أوضاع مراكز أفلاك عطارد في مسيراتها — ويكون الأشكال بحسب مسير لمركز بالحركة الوسطى مبتدئًا من الأوج إلى التوالي هكذا [diagrams] \86v\ [tables]. = 〈Risāla fī Ikhtilāfāt wuqūʿ al-khuṭūṭ fī l-ashkāl〉 (C.1.18a) . — Title: none. — The text is followed by a set of twenty diagrams (85v–86r) and three tables (86v, 89r, 88v), here in disorder.
89v–⁠90r	\89v\ [title] ليكن ابجد الحامل على مركز ز وح عليه نقطة خارجة عن المركز وجح د د ح ه زاويتان عليها فإن كانتا متساويتين كانت قوس د ه الأوجيّة — \90r\ فقد تبيّن بالاستقراء ولم يلح إلى طريق برهانيّ بعد إلى ذلك واللّه الموفّق. = Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt (C.1.18b) . — Title: Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt allatī yaḥduthu bi-sabab al-khurūj ʿan al-markaz (89v). — Undated scribal colophon.