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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). . 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\ 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 — والعرض زائدًا على ما أخذ بخمس وعشرين دقيقة فعرفنا أنّه قد تساهل فيه وعمل على التقريب دون التحقيق واللّه أعلم بالحقيقة. = Fī Tashakkul 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 tables (86v, 89r, 88v) are in disorder.
89v–⁠90r	\89v\ [title] ليكن ابجد الحامل على مركز ز وح عليه نقطة خارجة عن المركز — \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.