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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\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ قد وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته 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\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ قد وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته 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.