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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi Majlis-i shurā-yi Islāmī, 10 S⁢⁢⁢⁢⁢

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

finished in the night of 20 (bīstum) Shaʿbān 1087/28 October 1676 (159v).

Or.:

Mashhad; copied by Muḥammad ʿAlī b. Khwāja Mīrzā Bīk Ṭabasī Mashhadī (159v).

Prov.:

an erased statement with seal (1r). A note on the perception of the planets quoted from (al-Shīrāzī’s?) al-Tuḥfa, followed by a statement of purchase in Tehran in 1322/1904-5, with a seal ‘Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn’ (1r). Illegible small oval seals stamped at the top left corner of some rectos (e.g., 47r). A small round stamp of the Kutubkhāna-yi Majlis-i Sinā (Senate Library) (45v), and a larger one crossed out (159v). Transferred from the Kitābkhāna-yi Majlis-i Sinā; old shelfmark: ‘2248’.

Cod.: paper, 162 ff. (unfoliated; quires numbered with Hindu-Arabic numerals at the top left of every eighth recto, starting with ‘2’ on f. 8r, sometimes omitted; small paper slips inserted after ff. 10, 122, 127, and 131; catchwords). A clear naskh hand; fully dotted ductus. Book titles in red and/or black, mostly centred and often at the top of a new page; titles of Books VIII, XI and XII in large bold thuluth, title of Book VIII spread out over two facing pages of the star catalogue. Section numbers in bold black abjad, section titles in red; proposition numbers in overlined red abjad in the margins. Abjad numerals in red; geometrical points in the text neither rubricated nor overlined. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or vice versa. Tables with red lines. Codex in good condition; water stains along the bottom and upper outer edges through most of the manuscript, never hindering the reading; first and last folios worn and stained; numerous small coffee stains on ff. 10–12; some further stains. Dimensions: 24×14 cm, written area: 18×10 cm; 24 lines per page (misṭara imprints). Brown leather covers over cardboard; marbled paper doublures. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–159v); a set of twenty unfinished diagrams, obviously intended for a copy of the appendix C.1.18a (160v–161r). Blank: 160r, 161v–162r.

Bibl.: NashriyyaNashriyya-yi Kitābkhana-yi Markaz-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 14 vols, Tehran: Kitābkhana-yi Markaz-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 1961–1977, vol. II, p. 222; Muḥammad Taqī Dānishpazhūh and Bahāʾ al-Dīn ʿIlmī Anwārī, Fihrist-i kitābhā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Majlis-i Sinā, vol. I, Tehran: Kitābhāna-yi Majlis-i Sinā, 1976 (1355 H.S.), pp. 4–5; 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. 215 (no. 40); 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, pp. 295–296 (no. 99).

1v–⁠159v	\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير وولىّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \159v\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذا وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضاً لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامداً له على آلائة ومصلّياً على جميع أوليائه خصوصاً على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Kitāb Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (1v, in the hand of the scribe). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–17v; II, 18r–32r; III, 32r–43r; IV, 43r–56r; V, 56v–71v; VI, 72r–84v; VII, 85r–97r; VIII, 97r–109v; IX, 110r–125r; X, 125v–129r; XI, 129v–141v; XII, 142r–148v; XIII, 149r–159v. — No authorial colophon; dated scribal colophon. Occasional marginal corrections; some marginal annotations copied in the hand of the scribe. Some of al-Ṭūsī’s own annotations. Glosses by various hands, partially marked by siglum nẓ for al-Nīsābūrī (C.1.38).

1v–⁠159v

\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير وولىّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \159v\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذا وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضاً لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامداً له على آلائة ومصلّياً على جميع أوليائه خصوصاً على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.

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

. — Title: Kitāb Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (1v, in the hand of the scribe). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–17v; II, 18r–32r; III, 32r–43r; IV, 43r–56r; V, 56v–71v; VI, 72r–84v; VII, 85r–97r; VIII, 97r–109v; IX, 110r–125r; X, 125v–129r; XI, 129v–141v; XII, 142r–148v; XIII, 149r–159v. — No authorial colophon; dated scribal colophon. Occasional marginal corrections; some marginal annotations copied in the hand of the scribe. Some of al-Ṭūsī’s own annotations. Glosses by various hands, partially marked by siglum nẓ for al-Nīsābūrī (C.1.38).