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Qom, Kitābkhānah-yi ʿumūmī-yi Ḥaḍrat-i Āyat Allāh al-ʿuẓmā Marʿashī Najafī, 13717⁢⁢⁢

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Two incomplete works: Arabic. Date:

undated; first half of the 10^th/16^th c. (Marʿashī Najafī).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe(s).

Prov.:

Three different library stamps (1r). Accession no. 5471.

Cod.: paper, I+228 ff. (foliated with Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil, skipping ‘51’; catchwords). One or two naskh hands in black. Main hand: almost fully dotted ductus; book titles centered in black, sometimes partially in red or overlined in red; section titles in red, section numbers in black overlined abjad; abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals with red overlines, geometrical points in the text overlined in black; diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or the other way around, occasionally extending into the margins; tables with red lines, occasionally written vertically or extending into the margins; a rosette (129r); two pages of text crossed out (18v–19v). The text in the margins of 38 pages up to f. 30r mostly covers around one third of the page (in particular, the bottom margin), but occasionally less and occasionally more, up to the complete margins on ff. 9r–v and 17v. Hand of the marginal text: a miniscule naskh, sparsely dotted ductus; section titles and qawlu-hu in red but from f. 11r onwards omitted; some red overlines for Hindu-Arabic numerals; only a single diagram in black included (23v), spaces for all others reserved. Codex in bad condition; holes caused by insects, especially on ff. 9, 17v, 124–135, and 224–228; most inner margins restored. Dimensions: 24×16.5 cm, written area: 11×5 cm; 17 lines per page for the main text and up to 103 lines in the margins (misṭara imprints for the margins visible on many pages). Black oilcloth covers with black leather spine (Marʿashī Najafī).

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1r–227v); Ptolemaica (1r–30r); a table with astrological predictions based on the position of the Lot of Events (sahm al-ḥawādith) with respect to the planets (228r, in Persian). Blank: 13v, 34r, 68v, 111r, and presumably 228v.

Bibl.: Maḥmūd Marʿashī Najafī, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi buzurg-i Ḥadrat-i Āyatallāh al-ʿUẓmā Marʿashī Najafī, vol. XXXIV, Qom, 2006 (1385 H.S.), pp. 657–658; 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. 13); 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. 287 (no.74).

1r–⁠227v	\|\| \1r\منها نصف القطر وواحد جيب غاية الميل وهو كد يه نز ل على أنّ غاية الميل هو ما اتّفقنا عليه من نسبة أحد عشر إلى ثلاثة وثمانين — \227v\ [table] فإذن الكوكب قد يحرّك من الخفاء المسائيّ إلى الظهور الصباحيّ \إلى خلاف\\|\|  = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) , without beginning and end. — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (1r). — Index: Book I, 9r–29v, 1r–2v (beginning missing); II, 2v–8v, 30r–43v; III, 44r–62r; IV, 62r–84r; V, 84r–109r; VI, 109r–130r; VII, 130r–141r; VIII, 141v–156r; IX, 156r–180v; X, 180v–188r; XI, 188r–208r; XII, 208r–219r; XIII, 219r–227r. The text starts shortly before section I.14, the preceding sections I.10–13 are displaced; the text breaks off in section XIII.8. — No preface or colophons. Occasional corrections (e.g., 53r–54r) and annotations with siglum ṭ (or ẓ, e.g., 29r) by at least one nastaʿlīq hand.
1v–⁠30r	= al-Birjandī, Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.42) , Books I and II without beginning and end, in miniscule script. — Title: Hawāshī az ʿAbd al-ʿAlī Birjandī (1r). — Index: Book I, 9r–10r (bottom margins), 9r–10r (top margins), 10v–29v, 1r–2v (beginning missing; no text on ff. 12r–13v, 16v, 19r–21v, 28v–29r); II, 2v–8v, 30r (no text on ff. 4r–5v, 7r–8v). The text generally runs parallel to that of the Taḥrīr. It starts with section I.14, the preceding sections I.10–13 are displaced; the text ends in the middle of section II.5. Parts of the text lost due to damage to, and restorations of, the bottom and top margins.— No preface or colophon. No marginal notes or glosses.

1r–⁠227v

 || \1r\منها نصف القطر وواحد جيب غاية الميل وهو كد يه نز ل على أنّ غاية الميل هو ما اتّفقنا عليه من نسبة أحد عشر إلى ثلاثة وثمانين — \227v\ [table] فإذن الكوكب قد يحرّك من الخفاء المسائيّ إلى الظهور الصباحيّ \إلى خلاف\|| 

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

, without beginning and end. — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (1r). — Index: Book I, 9r–29v, 1r–2v (beginning missing); II, 2v–8v, 30r–43v; III, 44r–62r; IV, 62r–84r; V, 84r–109r; VI, 109r–130r; VII, 130r–141r; VIII, 141v–156r; IX, 156r–180v; X, 180v–188r; XI, 188r–208r; XII, 208r–219r; XIII, 219r–227r. The text starts shortly before section I.14, the preceding sections I.10–13 are displaced; the text breaks off in section XIII.8. — No preface or colophons. Occasional corrections (e.g., 53r–54r) and annotations with siglum ṭ (or ẓ, e.g., 29r) by at least one nastaʿlīq hand.

1v–⁠30r

= al-Birjandī, Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.42)

, Books I and II without beginning and end, in miniscule script. — Title: Hawāshī az ʿAbd al-ʿAlī Birjandī (1r). — Index: Book I, 9r–10r (bottom margins), 9r–10r (top margins), 10v–29v, 1r–2v (beginning missing; no text on ff. 12r–13v, 16v, 19r–21v, 28v–29r); II, 2v–8v, 30r (no text on ff. 4r–5v, 7r–8v). The text generally runs parallel to that of the Taḥrīr. It starts with section I.14, the preceding sections I.10–13 are displaced; the text ends in the middle of section II.5. Parts of the text lost due to damage to, and restorations of, the bottom and top margins.— No preface or colophon. No marginal notes or glosses.