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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi Majlis-i shurā-yi Islāmī, 6357⁢⁢

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

unknown; 9^th/15^th c. (Ḥāʾirī).

Or.:

unknown; unknown copyist.

Prov.:

a small oval seal bearing a basmala (Ir). A big rectangular seal weakly impressed (1r and 115v). A small rectangular seal partially stamped on the body text (24r and 34r). Talismanic invocations kabīkaj (Ir and 1r). The word waqf written at the upper right edge of the text area (43v). A small oval seal partially invisible due to restoration of the margin (1r); at least three erased statements (1r). Library stamps (1v, 54v and 115r). Old shelfmark: ‘6402’ (label on inside front cover).

Cod.: paper, I+115 ff. (foliated with Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in pen up to f. 107; an additional foliation with Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil from f. 96 onwards; catchwords). A neat naskh hand with light tendency to nastaʿlīq; almost fully dotted ductus, some vowel marks and hamzas, hardly any shaddas. Book headings and chapter beginnings in red and green thuluth; propositions numbered in the margins with bold overlined abjad numerals in red or green. Abjad and Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals overlined or in red. Diagrams with red lines and black or green geometrical points or vice versa. Tables with red lines and headings in red and green thuluth; some tables incomplete (16r–v, 33r). Codex in acceptable condition; damage to the outer margins and corners and by the flap, mostly restored (e.g., ff. I–1, 48, 57, 103, 115); water or moisture damage in the upper and lower margins; a large stain (86v). Dimensions: 25×18 cm; 27 lines per page. Black leather covers with corner pieces and a frame. Type III binding, formerly type II (traces of the flap on ff. I–1, 101–115).

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: a double-argument table for the addition of a number from 1 to 60 to another from 1 to 30 (Iv); Ptolemaica (1v–114v); a double-triangular multiplication table for numbers from 1 to 60 (115r). Blank: none.

Bibl.: ʿAbd al-Ḥusayn Ḥāʾirī, Fihrist-i Kitābkhāna-i Majlis-i Shūrā-i Millī. Kutub-i khaṭṭī-i fārsī wa-ʿarabī wa-turkī, vol. XIX, Tehran: Majlis-i Shūrā-i Millī, 1972 (1350 H.S.), pp. 402–403; 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. 212 (no. 7); 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. 294 (no. 97). — Milli Library online: http://opac.nlai.ir/opac-prod/bibliographic/7814676.

1v–⁠114v	\2v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية. ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية. وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية. — \114v\ والأربعة الباقية للظهورات والاختفات (كذا) المسائيّة والصباحيّة. الفصل العاشر في الجداول. [title] = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Taḥrīr Majisṭī (1r). — Index: preface, 1v; Book I, 1v–12r (incomplete); II, 12r–22v; III, 23r–30r (incomplete); IV, 30r–38r; V, 38r–47v; VI, 47v–56v; VII, 56v–69r; VIII, 69v–82r; IX, 82r–93v; X, 93v–96v; XI, 96v–103v; XII, 103v–108r (incomplete); XIII, 108r–114v (incomplete). Folios 2, 3, 9 and 25, and one folio after ff. 107 and 114 lost). — No authorial or scribal colophon. Marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Frequent marginal annotations mainly in a hand similar to the scribe’s using the reference mark ‘12’ and quoting from al-Ṣūfī, Ibn al-Ṣūfī, al-Qāḍī, Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī‘s Tuḥfa, and Ḥakīm al-Maghribī (Ḥāʾirī); marginal annotations arranged in circular form (113v, 114r). Some collation statements in a different hand (e.g., 8v, 56v, 73v).

1v–⁠114v

\2v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية. ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية. وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية. — \114v\ والأربعة الباقية للظهورات والاختفات (كذا) المسائيّة والصباحيّة. الفصل العاشر في الجداول. [title]

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

. — Title: Taḥrīr Majisṭī (1r). — Index: preface, 1v; Book I, 1v–12r (incomplete); II, 12r–22v; III, 23r–30r (incomplete); IV, 30r–38r; V, 38r–47v; VI, 47v–56v; VII, 56v–69r; VIII, 69v–82r; IX, 82r–93v; X, 93v–96v; XI, 96v–103v; XII, 103v–108r (incomplete); XIII, 108r–114v (incomplete). Folios 2, 3, 9 and 25, and one folio after ff. 107 and 114 lost). — No authorial or scribal colophon. Marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Frequent marginal annotations mainly in a hand similar to the scribe’s using the reference mark ‘12’ and quoting from al-Ṣūfī, Ibn al-Ṣūfī, al-Qāḍī, Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī‘s Tuḥfa, and Ḥakīm al-Maghribī (Ḥāʾirī); marginal annotations arranged in circular form (113v, 114r). Some collation statements in a different hand (e.g., 8v, 56v, 73v).