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Tehran, Kitābkhāna wa-mūza-yi millī-yi Malik, 3653

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single work with three short appendices: Arabic. Date:

1094/1682-3 (p. 323).

Or.:

unknown, probably Persia; copied by Muḥyī l-Dīn Muḥammad al-Kātib (p. 323).

Prov.:

an ownership statement by Rustam b. Shāh Wīrdī with oval seal (p. I); his nastaʿlīq hand could be that of the main annotator, who also left a note dated Muḥarram 1153/March-April 1740 (p. 1). A donation statement by ʿAbd … Muḥammad … with an oval seal and an ownership statement without name, signed al-ʿabd al-ʿāṣī, i.e., ‘the sinful worshipper’ (p. I). A note on measurements in cubits and fingers together with two drawn rulers with somewhat different scales (p. I), a third sketch of a ruler in a different hand (p. I, inner margin). A small oval seal ‘Muḥammad Ḥusayn’ on several pages (e.g., pp. 17, 99, 199); a modern stamp with Roman letters ‘MH’ (p. 323, upside down).

Cod.: paper, I+323 pp. (odd page numbers in Hindu-Arabic numerals in the upper right corner of versos; catchwords in the scribe’s hand). An elegant black naskh hand with head-serifs. Very neat and almost fully dotted script; shaddas, hamzas, maddas and wasla often provided; frequent use of lām-alif mukhaffafa and lām-alif muḥaqqaqa; occasional vowel signs. Textual dividers in red, inserted by a later hand. Frames in gold, blue and red surrounding the main text, space for marginal annotations surrounded by a thin red frame. Book and chapter numbers written out in gold thuluth, paragraph and chapter beginnings highlighted in red thuluth. Hindu-Arabic and abjad numbers in the main text mostly rubricated and with overlines. Diagrams, often reaching into the margins (e.g., pp. 86, 144, 313) and incomplete in the first appendix (p. 316), with lines and geometrical points in black or red; diagram lines occasionally erased and corrected (e.g., pp. 242, 246). Tables (some tilted or upside down, e.g., p. 57) with red or black lines and headers in gold or black ink; a rosette (p. 184); Text in diagrams and tables mostly in a nastaʿlīq hand. Illuminated incipit page with Safavid characteristics: headpiece mainly in blue and gold, vegetal decorations in red, blue, rose, and green; elaborated lancets in blue; inscription for golden cartouche missing. Codex in very good condition; minor damage caused by moisture and mould in the margins, not affecting the readability. Dimensions: 37.2×24.5 cm; 17 lines per page with generous space between the lines. Reddish brown leather covers, on front and back decorated with several golden frames; corner pieces and a central mandorla with pendants in black illuminated with floral motifs; doublures in black. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (pp. 1–315); Ptolemaica (pp. 315–316); Ptolemaica (pp. 317–319); Ptolemaica (pp. 319–323); an inserted modern Arabic note about the manuscript. Blank: none.

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.), pp. 114–115; 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. 43); 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. 102). Agha Bozorg database: http://www.aghabozorg.ir/showbookdetail.aspx?bookid=125247/.

pp. 1–⁠315	\p. 1\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية، ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية، وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \p. 315\ 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: Kitāb Majisṭī (p. I). — Index: preface, pp. 1–3; Book I, pp. 3–44; II, pp. 44–69; III, pp. 69–94; IV, pp. 94–122; V, pp. 122–157; VI, pp. 157–185; VII, pp. 185–201; VIII, pp. 202–223; IX, pp. 223–258; X, pp. 258–268; XI, pp. 268–281; XII, pp. 281–293; XIII, pp. 294–315. — Dated scribal colophon at the end of the codex (see below) rather than after the khātima of the Taḥrīr itself. Some pages heavily glossed in a hasty red and black nastaʿlīq hand (esp. pp. 15–37), occasionally referring to Euclid (e.g., p. 15), other annotations in a naskh hand. Syntactical glossing marks in the form of rubricated Hindu-Arabic numerals, mostly in the first part of the manuscript (e.g., p. 3). Additional diagrams in the margins (a drawing of an astrolabe on p. 26 and a quadrant on p. 27) were extracted from al-Nīsābūrī’s Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38); the same additions are found in MS Rampur, Raza, Arabic 3694. Marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe mostly indicated by siglum ṣḥ and Hindu-Arabic numeral ‘2’ as reference marks.
pp. 315–⁠316	\p. 315\ نريد أن نثبت اختلافات وقوع الخطوط في الأشكال التي يعرف منها أوضاع مراكز أفلاك عطارد في مسيراتها — \p. 316\ ويكون الأشكال بحسب مسير المركز بالحركة الوسطى مبتدئًا من الأوج إلى التوالي هكذا. = Risāla fī khtilāfāt wuqūʿ al-khuṭūṭ fī l-ashkāl (C.1.18a) . — Title: none. The twenty diagrams that are usually part of this work were left unfinished and the three tables are left out entirely. No marginal annotations.
pp. 317–⁠319	\p. 317\ [title] ا كوكب الرأس وب كوكب الرجل وفي المجسطي لأوّل سنة من ملك أنطونينس طول ا  و م وعرضه ز ك — \p. 319\ والعرض زائدًا على ما أخذه بخمس وعشرين دقيقة فعرفنا أنّه قد تساهل فيه على التقريب دون التحقيق والله أعلم. = Fī Tashakkul al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (C.1.18c) . — Title: Fī l-Shakl al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (p. 317). — Space for a diagram reserved (p. 317). A marginal correction in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ.
pp. 319–⁠323	\p. 319\ [title] ليكن ا ب ج د ه الحامل على مركز ز وقطر ا ب وح عليه نقطة خارجة عن المركز — \p. 323\ فقد تبيّن بالاستقراء ولم يلج لي طريق برهانيّ بعد إلى ذلك والله الموفّق وعليه التكلان. = Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt (C.1.18b) . — Title: Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt allatī taḥduthu bi-sabab al-khurūj ʿan al-markaz (p. 319). — Dated colophon by the scribe. No marginal annotations.