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Rampur, Raza Library, Arabic 3693⁢⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

25 Rabīʿ al-awwal 1043/29 September 1633 (209r).

Or.:

Thatta in Sind (209r); unknown copyist.

Prov.:

an invocation and two quotations from the preface of al-Nīsābūrī’s Tafsīr (1r). Owner names from the Bahādur Khān family around a lobed square seal: Sarkār Mawlawī Muḥammad … Ṣāḥib (partially erased), Ghulām Jīlānī (three times, once with the title ‘Sarkār Mawlawī’ and once written over a rectangular seal), Sarkār Muḥammad ʿUmar, and Sarkār Muṣṭafā (1r). An erased statement (1r). An oval seal ‘Kutubkhāna-yi Riyāsat-i Rāmpūr’ with border with floral motifs (1r, 48v, 149v, 191v, 209v). A Persian poem (209v, mirrored). An owner name Mawlawī ... Muḥammad b. Muslim … (partially erased) with a short Persian poem (209v). Accession numbers: ‘797 M’, and ‘ST 1428’ (1r, with name ʿArshī-Zāda and date 28 October ’95).

Cod.: paper, 209 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in red [up to f. 23 in black] on rectos; an inserted sheet between ff. 204 and 205, also numbered ‘205’; f. 208 bound after f. 201; catchwords). A single neat naskh hand in black; fully dotted ductus, frequent elongated ascenders and bowls. Book titles mostly in enlarged bold red; section titles mostly in black overwritten in red, occasionally the other way around; chapter numbers in bold black abjad, often overlined; proposition numbers written out in red in the margins. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals in red and overlined; geometrical points in the text in black with red overlines; qāla / aqūlu in red. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or the other way around, sometimes in the margin and frequently interrupting the frame. Tables with red lines; a rosette (111v). Red frame with greyish border-line around the text area on every page. Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue and other colours with floral motifs (1v). Codex in very bad condition; significant show-through and offset of the ink of both the main text and the glosses, frequently hindering the reading; major water, ink and other stains; substantial damage by insects restored with tape; all inner margins restored. Dimensions: 22.8×16 cm; 23 lines per page. Modern blue and red half-bound covers. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–209r); a commentary on the latitude table (205^bisr–v, by a different hand). Blank: none.

Bibl.: Muḥammad Ajmal Khān, Fihrist-i kutub-i ʿarabī-yi mawjūda-yi Kutubkhānah-yi Riyāsat-i Rāmpūr, Rampur: Maṭbaʻ Aḥmadī, 1902, vol. I, p. 421 (hayʾat no. 6); Imtiyāz ʿAlī ʿArshī, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in Raza Library, Rampur, Vol. V: Mathematics, Medicine, Natural Science, Agriculture, Occult Sciences, Ethics & Politics, Education & Military Science, Rampur: Raza Library, 1975, p. 40–41 (no. 797 M); 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. 288 (no. 78).

1v–⁠209r	\1v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \209r\ ولأقطع 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: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī fī ʿilm al-hayʾa (1r). — Additional title: Najistī (sic!) dar ʿilm-i hayʾat (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–24v; II, 24v–42v; III, 42v–57r; IV, 57r–75r; V, 75r–95v; VI, 95v–112r; VII, 112r–129v; VIII, 129v–148r; IX, 148r–170r; X, 170r–175v; XI, 176r–187v; XII, 187v–196r; XIII, 196r–209r. — Dated authorial colophon; dated scribal colophon. Marginal corrections. Margins of numerous pages entirely filled with glosses; extensive interlinear notes, especially in the mathematical sections of Book I; annotations on slips glued onto ff. 39r and 162r.

1v–⁠209r

\1v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \209r\ ولأقطع 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: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī fī ʿilm al-hayʾa (1r). — Additional title: Najistī (sic!) dar ʿilm-i hayʾat (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–24v; II, 24v–42v; III, 42v–57r; IV, 57r–75r; V, 75r–95v; VI, 95v–112r; VII, 112r–129v; VIII, 129v–148r; IX, 148r–170r; X, 170r–175v; XI, 176r–187v; XII, 187v–196r; XIII, 196r–209r. — Dated authorial colophon; dated scribal colophon. Marginal corrections. Margins of numerous pages entirely filled with glosses; extensive interlinear notes, especially in the mathematical sections of Book I; annotations on slips glued onto ff. 39r and 162r.