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

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

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 seals (p. II). An owner’s statement by Sayyid Kāẓim Dāwūd …, with an erased seal (p. II). Stamp of the ‘Librarie Rezvan’, largely glued over (p. I); endowment of Mīrzā Rīḍā Khān Nāʾinī, who also bequeathed several other Ptolemaic manuscripts to the Āstān-i Quds in Murdād 1311 H.S./1932 (library slip). Earlier shelfmark: ‘riyāḍī 82’ (library slip).

Cod.: paper, III+298+V pp. (paginated with Hindu-Arabic numerals at the centre top of each page, starting with a verso and partially cut off from the scans; catchwords). A main hand in nastaʿlīq; dotted ductus. Book and chapter titles and abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals in red; some catch titles overlined in red. 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 hands for the notes. Codex in very good condition; stains on the first and last folios, wear on the cover. Dimensions: 25.2×16.5 cm, written area: 16.5×9 cm; 23 lines per page. Burgundy leather covers. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — 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 al-Kāshānī (pp. III^a–IV^a); a note on parallax by Muḥammad Bāqir, i.e., the well-known mathematician Mullā Muḥammad Bāqir Yazdī (p. V^a). Blank: p. I^a.

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. 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, 2011–13 1390, 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). — Alternative title: Taḥrīr Majisṭī (p. II^a). — 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. Only very few 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). — Alternative title: Taḥrīr Majisṭī (p. II^a). — 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. Only very few 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’.