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Mashhad, Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 5455⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and doublures.]

Collection of a main work and four short notes: Arabic. Date:

2 Shaʿbān 1093/6 August 1682 (p. 298).

Or.:

unknown; unknown main scribe. The note on pp. III^a–IV^a was copied by the son of its author, the owner ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Raḍawī (p. IV^a).

Prov.:

statement of possession by the above-mentioned ʿAbdallāh al-Raḍawī, with two erased impressions of an oval seal (p. II). An ownership statement by Sayyid Kāẓim Dāwūd …, with an erased rectangular seal (p. II). Two more erased seals (pp. 298 [next to the colophon], III^a). An oval seal dated 1089/1678-9 at the top right of a dozen versos (e.g., pp. 103, 189, 215). A partially visible stamp of the former Kitābkhāna-yi Riḍwān (p. I), which was established by Mīrzā Riḍā Khān Nāʾīnī Qāḍī Nūr in 1349/1930-1; this codex, together with several other Ptolemaic manuscripts, was bequeathed by Nāʾīnī to the Āstān-i Quds in Murdād 1311/1932 (library slip). Earlier shelfmark: ‘riyāḍī 82’ (library slip).

Cod.: paper, III+298+V^a pp. (paginated with Persian variants of Hindu-Arabic numerals at the centre top of each page, starting with a verso and partially cut off from the scans; catchwords). Main hand in nastaʿlīq; dotted ductus with some vowel marks, hamzas and shaddas. Book and chapter titles and abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals in red; some catch titles overlined in red; propositions numbered in the margins with red abjad numerals. Clearly drawn diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or the other way around. Tables with red lines; a rosette (p. 150). One or two different nastaʿlīq hands for the notes on pp. III^a–V^a. Codex in very good condition; stains on the first and last folios, minor water damage, wear on the covers. Dimensions: 25.2×16.5 cm, written area: 16.5×9 cm; 23 lines per page in the main work. Dark-brown leather doublures with frames. Currently or previously type II binding (traces of the flap on the front doublure and p. Ia).

Cont.: astronomy and mathematics. — Index: a note on the Theory of Menelaos (shakl al-qaṭṭāʿ), with in the top margin a note on philosophy attributed to Muḥyī l-Dīn al-Maghribī (p. II); notes on solar and lunar motion (p. III); Ptolemaica (pp. 1–297); a geometrical note on planetary models by ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Raḍawī l-Kāshānī (pp. III^a–IV^a); a note on parallax by the well-known mathematician Mullā Muḥammad Bāqir Yazdī (p. V^a). Blank: p. I^a.

Bibl.: Aḥmad Gulchīn Maʿānī, Fihrist-i kutub-i khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, vol. VIII, Mashhad: Intishārāt-i Kitābkhāna-i Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 1971 (1350 H.S.), p. 69 (no. 82); 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. 215 (no. 42); 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. 277–278 (no. 54).

pp. 1–⁠298	\p. 1\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \p. 297\ فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على \p. 298\ خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Taḥrīr Majisṭī (p. II^a, library slip). — Index: preface, pp. 1–2; Book I, pp. 2–30; II, pp. 31–58; III, pp. 58–75; IV, pp. 75–101; V, pp. 101–128; VI, pp. 128–151; VII, pp. 151–180; VIII, pp. 180–209; IX, pp. 209–237; X, pp. 237–245; XI, pp. 245–267; XII, pp. 267–279; XIII, pp. 279–298. — No authorial colophon; dated scribal colophon. Some corrections. Numerous glosses all through the codex marked with a variety of names and sigla, in particular Niẓām, ʿAbd al-ʿAlī, ʿb, ṣ, and m, and reference mark ‘12’.

pp. 1–⁠298

\p. 1\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \p. 297\ فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على \p. 298\ خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.

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

. — Title: Taḥrīr Majisṭī (p. II^a, library slip). — Index: preface, pp. 1–2; Book I, pp. 2–30; II, pp. 31–58; III, pp. 58–75; IV, pp. 75–101; V, pp. 101–128; VI, pp. 128–151; VII, pp. 151–180; VIII, pp. 180–209; IX, pp. 209–237; X, pp. 237–245; XI, pp. 245–267; XII, pp. 267–279; XIII, pp. 279–298. — No authorial colophon; dated scribal colophon. Some corrections. Numerous glosses all through the codex marked with a variety of names and sigla, in particular Niẓām, ʿAbd al-ʿAlī, ʿb, ṣ, and m, and reference mark ‘12’.