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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 author’s son, 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 by ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Raḍawī al-Kāshānī on planetary models (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\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول إذ وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته 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 with a variety of 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\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول إذ وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته 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 with a variety of sigla, in particular Niẓām, ʿAbd al-ʿAlī, ʿb, ṣ, and m, and reference mark ‘12’.