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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi Majlis-i shurā-yi Islāmī, 3853⁢⁢⁢⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and front cover.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

‘middle of the last ten days’ (awāsiṭ ʿashar al-ākhir) of Ramaḍān 1034/c. 1 July 1625 (p. 400).

Or.:

Isfahan; copied by Rūḥ Allāh al-Mazandarānī (?) (p. 400, mostly erased). Copied from a manuscript copied from an autograph (p. 400), whose date is given as 5 Shawwāl 644/13 February 1247 (p. 400, note next to the explicit in the scribe’s hand).

Prov.:

a poem on the Almagest in a very elegant taʿlīq, taken from the preface of al-Nīsābūrī’s commentary (p. I). An erased statement with seal (p. I). A faded rectangular seal (p. I). Owner’s name Mirzā Asad Allāh (p. I). Ownership statement by al-Qāḍī Muḥammad Ṭāhir al-Ṭabrisī dated 1338/1919-20 (p. I). Library stamps (pp. 1, 95, 400). Old shelfmark: ‘4322’ (label on inside front cover).

Cod.: paper, I+401 pp. (paginated with stamped Hindu-Arabic numerals [Persian forms], mostly in the upper margins, p. 1 being a verso; loose sheets inserted after pp. 23 and 183; catchwords). A single nastaʿlīq hand; almost fully dotted ductus. Book and section titles in red; section numbers in bold black overlined abjad. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals mostly in red and often overlined; geometrical points in the text overlined in red. Red overlines for aqūlu and some further words or phrases. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or vice versa, occasionally entirely in black (pp. 207–210, 320, 325). Tables with red lines, some unfilled (e.g., pp. 183^bisr–v, 265–266, 365–367); unfilled rosette (p. 212). Codex in good condition; some water and other stains, upper inner corner of pp. 4–5 torn. Dimensions: 25.5×15 cm; 18 lines per page. Dark brown leather covers with central mandorla and pendants filled with interlace. Type III binding, formerly type II (traces of a flap on p. 401).

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: short note about the order in which the ‘Middle Books’ (al-Mutawassiṭāt) should be studied, in the hand of the scribe (p. I); Ptolemaica (pp. 1–400). Blank: p. 401.

Bibl.: ʿAbd al-Ḥusayn Ḥāʾirī, Fihrist-i Kitābkhāna-i Majlis-i Shūrā-i Millī. Kutub-i khaṭṭī-i fārsī wa-ʿarabī wa-turkī, vol. X/4, Tehran: Majlis-i Shūrā-i Millī, 1973 (1352 H.S.), p. 1885; 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. 216 (no. 60); 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. 292 (no. 93).

pp. 1–⁠400	\p. 1\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجوا حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \p. 400\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ قد وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائة ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Kitāb Majisṭī (p. 1). — Additional Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (al-Ṭabrisī’s ownership statement on p. I). — Index: preface, pp. 1–2; Book I, pp. 2–44; II, pp. 44–79; III, pp. 79–107; IV, \mspp. 107–144; V, pp. 144–182; VI, pp. 182–213; VII, pp. 213–245; VIII, pp. 245–282; IX, pp. 282–322; X, pp. 323–334; XI, pp. 334–357; XII, pp. 357–374; XIII, pp. 374–400. — Dated scribal colophon; mention of the date of the autograph. Only very few marginal corrections. Numerous extensive quotations from al-Birjandī’s Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.42) in the margins, marked with sigla ʿAbd and ʿAbd al-ʿAlī and with their own brief colophon on p. 400. Some marginal annotations with sigla nẓ and Niẓām.

pp. 1–⁠400

\p. 1\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجوا حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \p. 400\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ قد وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائة ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.

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

. — Title: Kitāb Majisṭī (p. 1). — Additional Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (al-Ṭabrisī’s ownership statement on p. I). — Index: preface, pp. 1–2; Book I, pp. 2–44; II, pp. 44–79; III, pp. 79–107; IV, \mspp. 107–144; V, pp. 144–182; VI, pp. 182–213; VII, pp. 213–245; VIII, pp. 245–282; IX, pp. 282–322; X, pp. 323–334; XI, pp. 334–357; XII, pp. 357–374; XIII, pp. 374–400. — Dated scribal colophon; mention of the date of the autograph. Only very few marginal corrections. Numerous extensive quotations from al-Birjandī’s Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.42) in the margins, marked with sigla ʿAbd and ʿAbd al-ʿAlī and with their own brief colophon on p. 400. Some marginal annotations with sigla nẓ and Niẓām.