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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Yazd, Kitābkhāna-yi Wazīrī, 793⁢⁢⁢

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Single work: Arabic.  Date:

undated; 9th/15th c. (Shīrwānī).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

a Persian note of donation by ʿAlī Muḥammad Wazīrī to the library in Yazd that he founded, the Kitābkhāna-yi Wazīrī ʿumūmī, dated 1365 A.H. and 1325 H.S./1946 (1r). Round library stamp of the Kitābkhāna-yi Wazīrī (e.g., 63v, 74v, 130r); a faded oval stamp of the Kitābkhāna-yi Wazīrī with year 1332 hs /1951(1r). Alternative shelfmarks: ‘364’ and ‘460’ (1r, Shīrwānī).

Cod.: paper, 163 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil just left above the text area on every recto; catchwords). A particularly nicely written and laid out manuscript with carefully drawn diagrams and tables. A single neat naskh hand; dotted ductus. All books start on a new page, with the header in large bold black and the title in red. Chapter numbers in large bold overlined black, chapter titles in red. Abjad numerals in red and overlined; Hindu-Arabic numerals and geometrical points in the text overlined in black. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or the other way around. Tables with red lines; a rosette (93v). Codex in very good condition; some stains along the edges, some damage around the folds; f. 1 and corners of ff. 68–69 restored. Dimensions: 23.5×15 cm, written area: 16×7 cm; 25 lines per page. Brown leather covers over pasteboards. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–163). Blank: none.

Bibl.: Muḥammad Shīrwānī, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Wazīrī-i Yazd wābasta bih Kitābkhāna-yi Āstān-i quds-i Raḍawī, vol. II: Az shumāra-yi 501 tā 1000, Tehran: Chāpkhāna-yi Tābān, 1353 H.S. (1974), pp. 666–669, with four images; 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. 8); 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. 309 (no. 127).

1v–⁠163v

\1v\ المقالة الأولى أربعة عشر فصلًا وستّة عشر شكلًا ا صدر الكتاب. استحسن فيه بطلميوس من الفلاسفة أفراد الفلسفة النظريّة عن العمليّة مع كون العمليّة قبل العمل أيضًا — \163v\ 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.

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

. — Title: Majisṭī Baṭlīmūs-i ḥakīm (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 1v–21r; II, 21v–35r; III, 35v–48r; IV, 48v–64v; V, 64v–82r; VI, 82v–94r; VII, 94v–102r; VIII, 102v–112r; IX, 112v–130r; X, 130r–135r; XI, 135v–144r; XII, 144v–152r; XIII, 152v–163v. — No authorial or scribal colophon. Only very few marginal corrections. Substantial interlinear notes and glosses in a very small script.