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Mashhad, Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 5457⁢⁢

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

main part: 11^th/17^th c. (Gulchīn Maʿānī); secondary hand dated 4 Rajab 1222/7 September 1807 (268v).

Or.:

unknown; two unknown scribes.

Prov.:

a rectangular stamp covered by the library slip (1r). A short Persian verse mentioning ʿAlī Shīr (194v). This manuscript, together with several other Ptolemaic manuscripts, was bequeathed by Mīrzā Riḍā Khān Nāʾīnī Qāḍī Nūr to the Āstān-i Quds in Murdād 1311/July-August 1932 (library slip and note in green ink on f. 1r). Several contemporary library stamps (1r–v, 4v, 268v), including blind stamped ones (1r, 4r).

Cod.: paper, 268+I^a ff. (foliated with Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil, with two unnumbered folios after f. 16, two after f. 53, three after f. 82 and three after f. 265, mostly with empty tables; catchwords). Main hand (17r–265v; 14 lines per page): nastaʿlīq; almost fully dotted ductus, no vowel marks, hamzas or shaddas; frequent use of textual dividers and red overlines. Ff. 1v–16^terv and 265^bisr–268v were supplemented by a secondary hand (12–19 lines per page): naskh with tendency to nastaʿlīq; almost fully dotted ductus, some vowel marks, shaddas and hamzas. Book headings bold, headings for Books I and III in red; sections introduced by overlined abjad numerals by the main hand and written out in red by the secondary hand; propositions numbered with red overlined abjad numerals in the margins. Catch titles for books in a hand similar to the main hand in red in the upper left corner of rectos in the main part, also on empty pages. Abjad numerals and Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals mostly in red and overlined; Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals by the secondary hand in red. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or vice-versa. Tables with red lines, some incomplete (15r, 47v, 53v) and many empty (e.g., 15v–16r, 155r, 257r). Empty space for a headpiece (1v) and a red double rule-border around the text area on ff. 1v–16v. Codex in good condition; frequent water or moisture damage, stains and smudges in the older part of the codex, some margins and corners restored (e.g., ff. 25–31, 256–265). Dimensions: 20.8×13.5 cm, written area: 12.5×6 cm. Black leather covers (Gulchīn Maʿānī). Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–268v), with an inserted unidentified fragment on ff. 267r–268r. Blank: 82^terv–82^quaterv, 109r, 121v, 132v, 147r, 177r, I^ar, and presumably I^av.

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. 69–70 (no. 83); 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. 24); 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, p. 279 (no. 56). — Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī online: https://opac.razavi.ir/simwebclt/.

1v–⁠268v	\1v\ الحمد للّه مبدأ كلّ مبدء (كذا) غاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو أحسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \268v\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ قد وفّقني اللّه تعا〉لى〉 أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإيجاز (كذا) ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا اللّه تعا على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) , with Books I, II and XIII in disorder. — Title: Taḥrīr Majisṭī (library slip). — Index: preface, 1v–2v; Book I, 2v–16r, 16^bisr–16^terv, 266r–267r, 16v, 17r–25v, 29r–31v, 26r–28v, 32r; II, 32r–43v, 47r–48v, 44r–46v, 49r–54r; III, 54r–76r; IV, 76r–99r; V, 99r–129r; VI, 129r–156v; VII, 157r–171r; VIII, 171r–190r; IX, 190r–213r; X, 213r–221v; XI, 221v–236r; XII, 236r–248r; XIII, 248v–256v, 263r–264v, 259r–262v, 257r–258v, 265r–v, 268r–v (incomplete). — Dated scribal colophon by the secondary hand. Some marginal corrections in the main hand indicated by siglum ṣḥ; frequent annotations in the margins by the main hand, mostly referring to al-Nīsābūrī’s Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) and including additional diagrams and sketches of instruments (17v, 18r). Minor marginal corrections by the secondary hand indicated by siglum ṣḥ.

1v–⁠268v

\1v\ الحمد للّه مبدأ كلّ مبدء (كذا) غاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو أحسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \268v\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ قد وفّقني اللّه تعا〉لى〉 أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإيجاز (كذا) ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا اللّه تعا على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.

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

, with Books I, II and XIII in disorder. — Title: Taḥrīr Majisṭī (library slip). — Index: preface, 1v–2v; Book I, 2v–16r, 16^bisr–16^terv, 266r–267r, 16v, 17r–25v, 29r–31v, 26r–28v, 32r; II, 32r–43v, 47r–48v, 44r–46v, 49r–54r; III, 54r–76r; IV, 76r–99r; V, 99r–129r; VI, 129r–156v; VII, 157r–171r; VIII, 171r–190r; IX, 190r–213r; X, 213r–221v; XI, 221v–236r; XII, 236r–248r; XIII, 248v–256v, 263r–264v, 259r–262v, 257r–258v, 265r–v, 268r–v (incomplete). — Dated scribal colophon by the secondary hand. Some marginal corrections in the main hand indicated by siglum ṣḥ; frequent annotations in the margins by the main hand, mostly referring to al-Nīsābūrī’s Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) and including additional diagrams and sketches of instruments (17v, 18r). Minor marginal corrections by the secondary hand indicated by siglum ṣḥ.