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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi Millī-yi Īrān, 19073⁢

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

finished on a Thursday, 17 or 27 … … (226r, most of the colophon torn).

Or.:

‘the city of …’ (226r); unknown scribe.

Prov.:

stamp of Ḥusayn Nawāzī, librarian (masʾul makhzan) of the Pahlavi royal court library, together with a round stamp of the Iran National Library (front and back flyleaves); old shelfmark: ‘951’ (1r, 224v [apparently below an erased seal]). Current library stamps (e.g., 1r, 1v, 225v).

Cod.: paper, 226 ff. (unfoliated; no catchwords). A single nastaʿlīq hand; partially dotted ductus with occasional vowel marks. Book and section titles as well as abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals in red; proposition numbers in red abjad in the text body; geometrical points in the text overlined in red. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or the other way around, mostly in the margins; all diagrams omitted or unfinished from Book VII onwards. Tables with a black frame and red lines, mostly unfinished or left entirely empty from section VI.2 onwards; an empty rosette (122v). Codex in acceptable condition; water stains at the top of pages, ff. 224–225 damaged by the flap, only a small part of the torn f. 226 left, heavily worn covers. Dimensions: 20×11.5 cm, written area: 14×5 cm; 24 lines per page. Brown leather covers with frames over cardboard; light-brown leather doublures. Type II binding, flap detached (online).

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1r–226v). Blank: 198v.

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, p. 298 (no. 106). — Tehran Millī online: https://opac.nlai.ir/opac-prod/bibliographic/1128944.

1r–⁠226r

 || \1v\الكتاب علمًا بين أهل العلم ينصون عليه في محاوراتهم — \226r\ فلنختم الكـ{ـتاب … …} أيضًا لإتمام ما قصد{ته … …} لله تعـ{ـالى} على آلائه ومـ{ـصلّيًا … …} أنبيائه والبررة من {… …}.

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

. — Title: Zīj Baṭlamyūs (1r). — Index: preface, 1r (first page lost); Book I, 1r–24v; II, 25r–52r; III, 52r–66r; IV, 66r–86v; V, 86r–105v; VI, 105v–123r; VII/VIII, 123r–158v; IX, 158v–186v; X, 186v–192r; XI, 192r–205r; XII, 205r–213r; XIII, 213r–226r (text on last page mostly lost). Beginning of Book VIII not indicated in the empty star catalogue. — Scribal colophon, almost completely lost. Very few marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe (e.g., 52r, 124r).