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Mashhad, Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 5456⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock without pp. 367–388.]

A collection of seven works: Arabic. Date:

undated; 13^th/19^th c. (Gulchīn Maʿānī).

Or.:

unknown, probably Persia; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

a library slip of the former Kitābkhana-yi Riḍwān, established by Mīrzā Riḍā Khān Nāʾīnī Qāḍī Nūr in 1349/1930-1, with former shelfmark ‘4232’ and stamp (p. III); 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 on p. I, note in green ink on p. III). Several contemporary library stamps, including blind stamped ones (pp. 1, 7). Scans of the short works following al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī are provided under the separate shelfmarks 19228 (pp. 365–388), 19229 (pp. 389–396), 19230 (pp. 396–414), 19231 (pp. 415–416) and 19232 (pp. 416–420).

Cod.: paper, III+420+I^a pp. (paginated with Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in the centre of the upper margins, up to p. 120 repeated in the outer corners; page numbers 303 to 310 are repeated after p. 310, here indicated as 303^bis to 310^bis; catchwords). A clear naskh hand; almost fully dotted ductus, many vowel marks, shaddas and hamzas. Book headings in the Ptolemaic part in red thuluth, headings for Books VIII–XIII missing; chapter beginnings up to Book VII in bold red thuluth introduced by red overlined abjad numerals, from Book VII onwards in bold black thuluth without abjad numbering; qāla / aqūlu in the beginning in bold red, later on in black; proofs numbered in the margins by red abjad numerals up to Book VII. Abjad numerals and Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals sometimes overlined. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points, occasionally vice versa; some diagrams lacking geometrical points, especially in the last four books (e.g., pp. 283–285, 310, 315). Table lines in red or gold; many empty tables (e.g., pp. 260–272, 338). Codex modestly decorated; text area surrounded by a golden frame and a blue rule-border, margins surrounded by a golden outer rule-border. Codex in very good condition; some stains and smudges (e.g., pp. 63, 99, 170–173); pp. 214/215 torn at the top, upper part of pp. 286/287 cut. Dimensions: 24.7×14 cm, written area: 16.7×7.6 cm. Leather covers. Seemingly type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy, mathematics. — Index: table of contents with the current shelfmarks (paper slip on the front doublure); Ptolemaica (pp. 1–364); Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Uṣūl al-handasa li-Uqlīdis (pp. 365–388); al-Ṭūsī, Kitāb al-Ukar li-Thāwdhusiyūs (pp. 389–396); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb al-Manāẓir li-Uqlīdis (pp. 396–400); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb Mānālāwus fī l-ashkāl al-kuriyya (pp. 401–414); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb al-Masākin li-Thāwdhusiyūs (pp. 415–416); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb Ibsiqlāws fī l-maṭālīʿ (pp. 416–420). Blank: p. II.

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. 351–355 (no. 395); 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. 216 (no. 50); for the other works, see: vol. VII, pp. 136 (no. 134), 145 (no. 54), 150 (no. 36), 218–219 (no. 22), 221 (no. 24), and 228 (no. 29); 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. 278–279 (no. 55).

pp. 1–⁠364	\p. 1\ أحمد اللّه مبدئ (كذا) كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \p. 364\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ قد وفّقني اللّه تعالى لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على الاية (كذا) ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه. قد فرغت من تسويد حروفه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Majisṭī (slip of the former Riḍwān Library, p. III). — Index: preface, pp. 1–2; Book I, pp. 2–13, 42–57, 14–17, 20–21; II, 21, 18–19, 24–25, 22–23, 26–41, 58–64; III, pp. 64–88; IV, pp. 88–124; V, pp. 124–158; VI, pp. 158–186; VII, pp. 186–203; VIII, pp. 203–254; IX, pp. 254–272, 276–298; X, pp. 298–308; XI, pp. 308–325; XII, pp. 325–337, pp. 73–275, 338; XIII, pp. 338–364. Several groups of folios displaced. — No authorial or scribal colophon. Few marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe. Frequent marginal annotations in a fine nastaʿlīq hand, on pp. 2 and 3 arranged in geometrical shapes, mostly using the sigla ‘12’ or ‘2’; some annotations in small script within the text body in the same hand; additional marginal diagrams (e.g., pp. 119, 306, 353).

pp. 1–⁠364

\p. 1\ أحمد اللّه مبدئ (كذا) كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \p. 364\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ قد وفّقني اللّه تعالى لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على الاية (كذا) ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه. قد فرغت من تسويد حروفه.

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

. — Title: Majisṭī (slip of the former Riḍwān Library, p. III). — Index: preface, pp. 1–2; Book I, pp. 2–13, 42–57, 14–17, 20–21; II, 21, 18–19, 24–25, 22–23, 26–41, 58–64; III, pp. 64–88; IV, pp. 88–124; V, pp. 124–158; VI, pp. 158–186; VII, pp. 186–203; VIII, pp. 203–254; IX, pp. 254–272, 276–298; X, pp. 298–308; XI, pp. 308–325; XII, pp. 325–337, pp. 73–275, 338; XIII, pp. 338–364. Several groups of folios displaced. — No authorial or scribal colophon. Few marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe. Frequent marginal annotations in a fine nastaʿlīq hand, on pp. 2 and 3 arranged in geometrical shapes, mostly using the sigla ‘12’ or ‘2’; some annotations in small script within the text body in the same hand; additional marginal diagrams (e.g., pp. 119, 306, 353).