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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi Majlis-i shurā-yi Islāmī, 35 Khūʾī⁢⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and back cover.]
Incomplete single work: Arabic.  Date:

undated; c. 12th/18th c. (Ḥāʾirī).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

a small illegible oval seal; statement of borrowing by Shaykh Muḥammad … ʿAbd Muḥammad al-Baḥrānī; ownership statement by Muḥammad Qāsim al-Zāhid, with his small oval seal; statement of purchase by Muḥammad Bāqir, known as al-Ṭabīb al-Shīrāzī, son of Muḥammad Kāẓim, and an ownership statement by Mīrzā Abū l-Ḥasan (all on f. 1r).

Cod.: paper, I+108+Ia ff. (foliated with stamped Hindu-Arabic numerals in the upper part of versos; catchwords). A single nastaʿlīq hand; partially dotted ductus. Red used for book and section titles, overlines for geometrical points, and table lines up to f. 7v, thereafter omitted. Diagrams with red or black lines up to f. 95r, therafter omitted; geometrical points in diagrams only up to f. 12r. Some empty tabular frames, most tables entirely omitted. Codex in good condition; water stains, binding loose, margins of first and last pages restored. Dimensions: 28×19 cm; 19 lines per page. Brown leather cover with significant wear. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–108v). Blank: Ir–v, Iar–v.

Bibl.: ʿAbd al-Ḥusayn Ḥāʾirī, Fihrist-i Kitābkhāna-i Majlis-i Shūrā-yi Millī, Vol. VII: Majmūʿa-i ihdāʾī imām jumʿa Khūʾī, Tehran: Majlis-i Shūrā-yi Millī, 1967 (1346 H.S.), pp. 32–33; 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, pp. 215–216 (no. 47); 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. 290 (no. 88).

1v–⁠108v

\1v\ الحمد لله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ ❊ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ❊ ووليّ كلّ هداية ❊ وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \108v\ وأمّا الصفّ الرابع من جدول السفليّين فهو لحصص أجزاء التدوير من الانحرافات الكلّي الذي يكون له عند كونه في الأوج أو الحضيض مفردة.

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

. — Title: Taḥrīr Majisṭī (1v). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–16r; II, 16r–23v; III, 24r–33r; IV, 33r–44r; V, 44r–58r; VI, 58r–69r; VII/VIII, 69r–77v (with empty space for only a very small part of the star catalogue and sections VIII.1–3 missing); IX, 77v–89r; X, 89r–〈92bisr〉 (end lost); XI, 〈92bisr〉–98v (beginning lost); XII, 98v–103v; XIII, 103v–108v. One folio lost after f. 92, including the beginning of Book XI. The scribe stopped copying halfway through section XIII.4 after only two lines on the last page. — No colophons. Occasional marginal corrections. No glosses.