PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi Millī-yi Īrān, 16520⁢⁢⁢

[Trimmed colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]
Acephalous single work: Arabic.  Date:

15 Shaʿbān 1020/​23 October 1611 (269r).

Or.:

unknown; copied from an autograph (269r); ‘bi-khaṭṭ Mīr (?) Abū l-Qāsim’ (1r, with mention of a price of 1000 ṣannār ?).

Prov.:

three Persian poems (1r); several Persian poems, e.g., by ʿUmar al-Khayyām (1v). An oval seal ‘Abū l-Qāsim Raḍawī’ with year ‘12..’ (272r). A red stamp ‘Centre of cultural documents of the Islamic revolution’, with date of accession 9-9-〈13〉65/​30 November 1986 (p. I).

Cod.: paper, I+272 ff. (foliated with encircled Hindu-Arabic numerals in the bottom centre of rectos; catchwords). A single nastaʿlīq hand in black; partially dotted ductus. Book and section titles in red; book numbers written out in enlarged bold black, section numbers in enlarged and overlined abjad. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals in red. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points, occasionally the other way around. Tables with red lines; a rosette (131r). Codex in acceptable condition; the readability of many pages is significantly hampered by the strong show-through of the black ink. Dimensions: 18.6×11.5 cm, written area: 12.5×6.9 cm; 14 lines per page. Dark-red cardboard covers. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (2r–269r); a poem by Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbbās al-Ṣūlī (d. 243/​857) (269v); several short Arabic and Persian poems (270v, 271v–272v). Blank: 270r, 271r.

Bibl.: 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. 297–298 (no. 105). — Milli Library online: https://opac.nlai.ir/opac-prod/bibliographic/2049637., scans at https://dl.nlai.ir/UI/75597739-bb25-406a-80b4-99ed4fe03849/LRRView.aspx.

2r–⁠269r

 || \2r\وإيضًا فإن كانت إحدى القوسين اللتين يحيط بهما النقط الثلث منطقة على الأخرى كقوسي ا ب ا ج في هذا الصورة — \269r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني الله 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: Majisṭī (1r). — Index: Book I, 2r–9v (only the final part); II, 9v–32r; III, 32r–51v; IV, 51v–78r; V, 78r–108r; VI, 108r–131v; VII, 131v–155v; VIII, 155v–180v; IX, 180v–212r; X, 212v–221r; XI, 221r–236v; XII, 237r–250r; XIII, 250r–269r. The text starts in the middle of section I.12. — No authorial colophon; dated scribal colophon. Frequent corrections with siglum ṣḥ; minhiyyāt.