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Rampur, Raza Library, Arabic 3694

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Single work with a short appendix: Arabic. Date:

copied ‘during approximately 23 days’ between 24 Dhū l-ḥijja 〈1132〉/27 October and 17 Muḥarram 1133/18 November 1720 (231r).

Or.:

India; copied by Abū l-Khayr, known as Khayr Allāh b. Luṭf Allāh al-Muhandis (231r), a grandson of the architect of the Taj Mahal, Aḥmad al-Lahūrī.

Prov.:

four erased seals. An ownership statement by the library director, dated 5 October 1898 (1r). Old shelfmark: ‘S.T. 1429’, with date 28 October 〈18〉95 (1r). Accession number: ‘706 D’.

Cod.: thin paper, 231 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals, mostly cut off from the scans; no catchwords). A round naskh hand; mostly dotted, shaddas and hamzas often provided, occasional vowel marks. Book and chapter beginnings rubricated; chapter beginnings additionally introduced by bold and overlined abjad numerals in black; subsections often marked with textual dividers in the form of a red dot and numbered with red abjad numerals in the margins. Hindu-Arabic and abjad numbers in the main text mostly rubricated and with overlines. Numerous diagrams, tables and a rosette (131r); diagram lines and geometrical points in black or red; tables with red lines and headers and numbers in red or black. Codex in good condition; foxing and minor damage caused by insects; some restorations with pasted slips of paper in corners and folds; very few smudges of ink. Apparently a set of eight folios (49–56) was incorrectly inserted after f. 64. Dimensions: 23.8×13.8 cm; 15 lines per page. Bound in a modern black partial leather binding, title and author provided on the spine.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–231r); Ptolemaica (230r–v).

Bibl.: 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, pp. 40/41; 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. 77, as MS 706 D).

1v–⁠231r	\1v\ الحمد لله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \231r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول: وإذ وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطّع 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 Majiṣṭī (1r). — Additional title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (spine). — Index: preface, 1v–2v; Book I, 2v–31r; II, 31r–48v and 57r–59v; III, 59v–64v, 49r–56v, 65r–66v (in this order); IV, 68v–89v; V, 89v–112v; VI, 112v—131v; VII, 131v–147v; VIII, 147v–166v; IX, 166v–189r; X, 189r–195r; XI, 195r–207r; XII, 207r–216r; XIII, 216r–231r. — Dated scribal colophon. Very few interlinear annotations and syntactical glossing marks (e.g., 3v). Some glosses and additional diagrams in the margins (a drawing of an astrolabe on f. 18r and a quadrant on f. 18v) were extracted from al-Nīsābūrī’s Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38); the same additions are found in MS Tehran, Malik, 3653. Minor marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe, mostly indicated by siglum ṣḥ.
230r–⁠v	\230r\ نريد أن نثبت اختلافات وقوع الخطوط في الأشكال التي يعرف منها أوضاع مراكز أفلاك عطارد في مسيراتها — ويكون الأشكال بحسب مسير المركز الحركة الوسطى مبتدًأ من الأوج إلى التوالي هكذا. = 〈Risāla fī Ikhtilāfāt wuqūʿ al-khuṭūṭ fī l-ashkāl〉 (C.1.18a) . — Title: none. — This appendix to the Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī is here inserted before the explicit and colophon of the main work. It includes the usual set of twenty diagrams on ff. 230r–v (without frames), but omits the set of three tables normally following the diagrams. No marginal annotations.

1v–⁠231r

\1v\ الحمد لله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \231r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول: وإذ وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطّع 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 Majiṣṭī (1r). — Additional title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (spine). — Index: preface, 1v–2v; Book I, 2v–31r; II, 31r–48v and 57r–59v; III, 59v–64v, 49r–56v, 65r–66v (in this order); IV, 68v–89v; V, 89v–112v; VI, 112v—131v; VII, 131v–147v; VIII, 147v–166v; IX, 166v–189r; X, 189r–195r; XI, 195r–207r; XII, 207r–216r; XIII, 216r–231r. — Dated scribal colophon. Very few interlinear annotations and syntactical glossing marks (e.g., 3v). Some glosses and additional diagrams in the margins (a drawing of an astrolabe on f. 18r and a quadrant on f. 18v) were extracted from al-Nīsābūrī’s Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38); the same additions are found in MS Tehran, Malik, 3653. Minor marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe, mostly indicated by siglum ṣḥ.

230r–⁠v

\230r\ نريد أن نثبت اختلافات وقوع الخطوط في الأشكال التي يعرف منها أوضاع مراكز أفلاك عطارد في مسيراتها — ويكون الأشكال بحسب مسير المركز الحركة الوسطى مبتدًأ من الأوج إلى التوالي هكذا.

= 〈Risāla fī Ikhtilāfāt wuqūʿ al-khuṭūṭ fī l-ashkāl〉 (C.1.18a)

. — Title: none. — This appendix to the Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī is here inserted before the explicit and colophon of the main work. It includes the usual set of twenty diagrams on ff. 230r–v (without frames), but omits the set of three tables normally following the diagrams. No marginal annotations.