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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 al-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 abjad. Hindu-Arabic numerals in the text in red, abjad numerals in red and overlined. 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\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته 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.