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Tehran, Kitābkhāna wa-mūza-yi millī-yi Malik, 3389⁢⁢

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

finished on the first day (ghurra) of Muḥarram 〈10〉51/12 April 1641 (p. 393).

Or.:

Mashhad; copied by Muḥammad Ṣādiq b. Ḥājī al-Ḥaramayn al-Sharīfayn Ḥājī ʿAbd al-ʿAlī Turshīzī from an exemplar copied in 1027/1617-8 in Isfahan by Abū Jaʿfar Kāfī b. Muḥtashim b. ʿAmīd b. Muḥammad b. Shāhanshāh al-Qāʾinī, which in turn was copied from the autograph (al-nuskha allatī kānat bi-khaṭṭ al-muṣannif) (p. 393). Al-Qāʾinī composed two commentaries on the Almagest (MSS Mashhad, Dānishgāh, Adabiyyāt 148 - Fayyāḍ and Mashhad, Āstān-i quds, 7345) and issued a certificate of audition on behalf of the scribe of MS Tehran, Mahdawī, 486; the present copy includes four verses attributed to him (p. 393).

Prov.:

an undated ownership statement by Zayn al-Dīn ʿAlī l-Nayrīzī (p. III). An undated ownership statement by Ibn Hidāyat Allāh, with his rectangular seal (p. III). A rectangular seal ‘Hibat Allāh b. ʿAskarī al-Ḥusaynī’, followed by a poem in large letters (p. III). An undated statement of purchase by Muḥammad Samīʿ, with an illegible oval seal (p. I); two rectangular seals of Abū l-Qāsim … b. ʿAlī and three illegible small rectangular seals (p. I). A Persian verse attributed to Ḥāfiẓ (p. I, upside-down); a Persian poem attributed to the 7^th/13^th century poet Sayf al-Dīn Bākharzī (p. III). A rectangular and an oval seal ‘ʿAbdu-hu Muḥammad Mahdī l-Ḥusaynī’, the latter dated 1183 (?)/1769-70, an undated rectangular seal ‘ʿAbd al-Jawād al-Ḥusaynī’, a rectangular seal ‘ʿAbd al-Jawād al-Ḥusaynī ...’, and an oval seal ‘Ibn Muḥammad Mahdī (?) al-Ḥusaynī ʿAbd al-Jawād’, the last two dated 1183 (?)/1769-70 (all on p. III). A Persian statement regarding the position of fixed stars on 11 Ṣafar 1189/13 April 1775 (p. IV^a). A Persian statement of purchase mentioning the price of the manuscript as 60 tumān, dated 1325/1907-8 (A.H.) or 1946-7 (H.S.) and a partially legible seal ‘Muḥammad al-Ḥusayn’ (?) (p. III). A small oval seal ‘Muḥammad Ḥusayn’ (pp. 17, 99, 199, 299) and a modern stamp with Roman letters ‘MH’ (pp. III, 393) commonly found in manuscripts of the Malik library. An ownership statement in nastaʿlīq by the Malik Library (p. III); various library stamps, one with date 17 Farwardīn 1331/6 April 1952 (p. III).

Cod.: paper, III+393+IV^a pp. (paginated with Persian forms of odd Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil in the top right corner of versos; catchwords). A clear nastaʿlīq hand; almost completely dotted ductus, frequent vowel marks, shaddas, and hamzas, especially at the beginning and end of the codex. Book titles mostly in bold thuluth; section titles in red and introduced by black abjad numerals with black overlines; proposition numbers in red overlined abjad within the text. Abjad and Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in red. Carefully drawn diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or vice versa. Tables with red lines, some incomplete (pp. 349–350). Codex in good condition; some moisture damage mainly in the lower margins, first two pages and last page torn, covers worn. Dimensions: 26.5×17.1 cm; 19 lines per page (misṭara imprints; e.g., pp. I^a–II^a). Covers and doublures of dark red leather decorated with thin goldish borders. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: short note about the order in which the ‘Middle Books’ (al-Mutawassiṭāt) should be studied, copied from a manuscript in the hand of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, followed by the work title and name of the author, both said to have been copied from al-Ṭūsī’s autograph, and sayings attributed to Muḥammad and Aristotle, all in the scribe’s hand (p. III; cf. the similar note without the sayings in MS Istanbul, Ragıp Paşa, 914⁢⁢). Ptolemaica (pp. 1–393). Blank: pp. II, I^a–III^a.

Bibl.: Īraj Afshār and Muḥammad Taqī Dānishpazhūh, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Millī-yi Malik wābasta bih Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, Vol. I: Kitābhā-yi ʿarabī wa turkī, Tehran: Astān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 1973 (1352 H.S.), p. 114; 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. 214 (no. 30); 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. 296 (no. 100). — Millī Library online: http://opac.nlai.ir/opac-prod/bibliographic/7934874.

pp. 1–⁠393	\p. 1\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \p. 393\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع 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 al-Majisṭī (p. III, in the hand of the scribe). — Index: preface, pp. 1–2; Book I, pp. 2–45; II, pp. 45–80; III, pp. 80–107; IV, pp. 107–143; V, pp. 143–182; VI, pp. 182–213; VII, pp. 213–241; VIII, pp. 241–272; IX, pp. 272–315; X, pp. 315–327; XI, pp. 327–351; XII, pp. 351–368; XIII, pp. 368–393. — Dated scribal colophon. Some marginal corrections by the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Frequent carefully written annotations, all in the hand of the scribe, using, among others, the sigla ʿbl (e.g., pp. 61, 209, 388), nḍ or Niẓām al-Dīn (e.g., pp. 46, 132, 220), and ḥ (e.g., pp. 54, 168, 221), and reference mark ‘12’ (e.g., pp. 1, 12, 215). Additional diagrams and figures in the margins from, e.g., al-Nīsābūrī’s Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) (e.g., pp. 26–27) and al-Birjandī’s Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.42) (e.g., pp. 209, 350).

pp. 1–⁠393

\p. 1\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \p. 393\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع 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 al-Majisṭī (p. III, in the hand of the scribe). — Index: preface, pp. 1–2; Book I, pp. 2–45; II, pp. 45–80; III, pp. 80–107; IV, pp. 107–143; V, pp. 143–182; VI, pp. 182–213; VII, pp. 213–241; VIII, pp. 241–272; IX, pp. 272–315; X, pp. 315–327; XI, pp. 327–351; XII, pp. 351–368; XIII, pp. 368–393. — Dated scribal colophon. Some marginal corrections by the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Frequent carefully written annotations, all in the hand of the scribe, using, among others, the sigla ʿbl (e.g., pp. 61, 209, 388), nḍ or Niẓām al-Dīn (e.g., pp. 46, 132, 220), and ḥ (e.g., pp. 54, 168, 221), and reference mark ‘12’ (e.g., pp. 1, 12, 215). Additional diagrams and figures in the margins from, e.g., al-Nīsābūrī’s Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) (e.g., pp. 26–27) and al-Birjandī’s Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.42) (e.g., pp. 209, 350).