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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Mashhad, Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 5454⁢

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

undated, 11th/17th c. (Gulchīn Maʿānī).

Or.:

unknown, copied by Ṣālīḥ b. Muḥammad Kāẓim Khātūnābādī (colophon, p. 434)

Prov.:

a statement of ownership by Muḥammad Naṣīr followed by a rectangular seal dated 1118/1706-7 (p. III). A collation note dated Monday, 14 Rabīʿ al-thānī 1168/27 January 1755 (p. 417). Undated short note of ownership by Muḥammad Ismaʿīl Khātūnābādī (?) (p. III) followed by a rectangular seal, repeated after the last colophon (pp. III, 434). A note in French on a brighter type of paper, dated 1333/1914-5, stating that the owner refused to sell the manuscript; this is followed by a Persian note giving the reason as the handwriting of Khwāja Ikhtiyār found in several margins (p. IIIa). The manuscript was bequeathed to the current library by Mīrzā Riḍā Khān Nāʾīnī Qāḍī Nūr in Murdād 1311/July-August 1932, together with several other Ptolemaic manuscripts. Stamp of the former Nāʾīnī library (p. I). A round, blind-stamped library seal (p. 7). Scans of the appendices (pp. 417–IIIa) are provided under the separate shelfmark 19238.

Cod.: paper, III+434+IIIa pp. (paginated with Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in the upper margins, with two unnumbered pages after p. 376 and occasional corrections; catchwords). A black nastaʿlīq hand; almost fully dotted ductus, occasional vowel marks, few shaddas and hamzas. Book headings rubricated; sections introduced by red and overlined abjad numerals; propositions numbered with red overlined abjad numerals in the margins. Abjad numerals overlined or in red; Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in red. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or vice versa; two diagrams on whiter paper glued in (p. 360). Tables with red lines. Codex in good condition; some stains and smudges (e.g., pp. 48, 98, 215, 258); margins of pp. III–1 and 432–Ia restored. Dimensions: 25×14.5 cm, written area: 17.8×6.5 cm; 24 lines per page. Leather covers (Gulchīn Maʿānī). Apparently type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (pp. 1–417); Ptolemaica (pp. 417–424); Ptolemaica (pp. 425–430); Ptolemaica (pp. 431–434). Blank: pp. II, Ia (except for two library stamps and a small note), IIa.

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.), pp. 68–69 (no. 81); 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. 22); 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, pp. 276–277 (no. 53). — Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī online catalogue:  https://opac.razavi.ir/simwebclt/.

pp. 1–⁠417

\p. 1\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \p. 417\ فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه والحمد للّه ربّ العالمين.

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

. — Title: Taḥrīr Majisṭī (inlaid library slip). — Index: preface, pp. 1–2; Book I, pp. 2–52; II, pp. 52–87; III, pp. 87–118; IV, pp. 118–154; V, pp. 154–199; VI, pp. 199–237; VII, pp. 237–261; VIII, pp. 261–289; IX, pp. 289–331; X, pp. 331–344; XI, pp. 344–372; XII, pp. 372–388; XIII, pp. 389–417. — Undated scribal colophon (p. 417). Few marginal corrections or annotations in the hand of the scribe. Frequent marginal corrections and annotations in taʿlīq indicated by, among others, ‘12’, Niẓām, Niẓām al-Dīn or Birjandī. Occasional catch titles in the margins in a red and green thuluth or tawqīʿ hand; table headings and abjad numbering of chapters and proofs in the margins up to p. 30 in the same hand and colours. Some collation marks blgh.

pp. 417–⁠424

\p. 417\ نريد أن نثبت اختلافات وقوع الخطوط في الأشكال التي يعرف منها أوضاع مراكز أفلاك عطارد في مسيراتها — \p. 418\ وتكون الأشكال بحسب مسير المركز بالحركة الوسطى مبتدئًا من الأوج إلى التوالي هكذا. [diagrams] \p. 422\ [tables]

= Risāla fī Ikhtilāfāt wuqūʿ al-khuṭūṭ fī l-ashkāl (C.1.18a)

. — Title: none. — No corrections. A single gloss on p. 424.

pp. 425–⁠430

\p. 425\ [title] ليكن ا ب ج د ه الحامل على مركز ز وقطر ا ب وح عليه نقطة خارجة عن المركز — \p. 430\ فقد تبيّن بالاستقراء إذ لم يلح في طريق برهانيّ بعد إلى ذلك واللّه الموفّق. تمّ (كذا) الرسالة بحمد اللّه وحسن توفيقه.

= 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 (p. 425). — No scribal colophon. Marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ.

pp. 431–⁠434

\p. 431\ [title] ا كوكب الرأس وب كوكب الزحل وفي المجسطي لأوّل سنة من ملك أنطونيس طول ا  و م وعرضه ز ك\p. 434\ والعرض زائدًا على ما أخذه بخمس وعشرين دقيقة فغرفنا (كذا) أنّه قد تساهل فيه وعمل على التقريب دون التحقيق واللّه الموفّق للصواب.

= 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 (p. 431). — Undated scribal colophon (p. 434). Two marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ (p. 432).