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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\ فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا اللّه تعا〈لى〉 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\ فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا اللّه تعا〈لى〉 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.