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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Mashhad, Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 12185⁢⁢⁢

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Single work: Arabic.  Date:

undated; c. 9th/15th c. (ʿIrfāniyyān).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

Persian statement of borrowing by Abū l-Qāsim b. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Sharīf b. Abī l-Fatḥ b. Taqī l-Qurashī (?), known as al-Fāḍil, dated Monday, 2 Ṣafar 1314/​13 July 1896 in Tehran (1r). A Persian statement of purchase of this book, together with al-Birjandī’s commentary on the zīj of Ulugh Beg, by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Ṭihrāni from Ḥājj Darwīsh (1r); a Persian note on the Almagest by al-Ṭihrānī with date 1343/​1924-5 and the name of the work added in French (1r). Endowment of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Ṭihrānī in the year 1361 H.S./​1982 (library slip). A round library stamp with the year 1316/​1898-9 (1r, 136r).

Cod.: paper, 136 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil; two unnumbered sheets inserted after f. 12; catchwords). One main nastaʿlīq hand in black; fully dotted ductus. Folios 1v and 132r–136r supplemented on whiter paper by a different nastaʿlīq hand in black, with spaces for titles left empty. Book and chapter titles in red; book headings bold and enlarged, from Book V onwards centered; chapter numbers in overlined black abjadAbjad numerals in red and overlined, Hindu-Arabic numerals in red. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or the other way around. Tables with red lines. Codex in acceptable condition; significant water damage at the top of all pages; upper outer corners of ff. 2–10 repaired; some stains. Dimensions: 25.4×17 cm; 25, 23 and 21 lines per page. Brown leather covers. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–136r). Blank: 136v.

Bibl.: Ghulām ʿAlī ʿIrfāniyyān, Fihrist-i kutub-i khaṭṭī-i Kitābkhāna-yi Markazī-i Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, Vol. X: Riyāḍiyyāt, Mashhad: Kitābkhāna-i Markazī-i Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 1984 (1362 H.S.), p. 24 (no. 490); 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. 212 (no. 11); 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. 280 (no. 57).

1v–⁠136r

\1v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \136r\ فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه. نمّت.

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

. — Title: Taḥrīr Majisṭī (library slip). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–16r; II, 16r–28v; III, 28v–36v; IV, 36v–46v; V, 46v–59r; VI, 59r–69v; VII, 69v–81v; VIII, 81v–94v; IX, 95r–110v; X, 110v–114r; XI, 114r–122r; XII, 122r–127r; XIII, 127r–136r. — No authorial or scribal colophon. Marginal corrections. Extensive glosses to Books I and II with occasional interlinear annotations, mostly indicated with siglum nẓ; the inserted sheets ff. 12bister were also written by the glossator and use the same siglum.