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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 … … (250v, mostly invisible due to restorations).

Or.:

‘the city of …’ (250v); unknown scribe.

Prov.:

transferred from the Nawāzī collection of the Pahlawī Library (online); old shelfmark ‘number 951’ (1r).

Cod.: paper, 250 ff. (unfoliated; no catchwords). A single nastaʿlīq hand; partially dotted ductus. 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 (122r). Codex in good condition; water stains at the top of the pages, f. 250 strongly damaged by the flap and restored, 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–250v). Blank: none.

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). — Kitābkhana-yi Millī online: https://opac.nlai.ir/opac-prod/bibliographic/1128944.

1r–⁠250v

 || \1v\الكتاب علمًا بين أهل العلم ينصون عليه في محاوراتهم — \250v\ 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–86r; V, 86r–105r; VI, 105r–122v; VII/VIII, 122v–158r; IX, 158r–186r; X, 186r–191v; XI, 191v–204v; XII, 204v–212v; XIII, 212v–250v (last page mostly invisible due to restorations). Beginning of Book VIII not indicated in the empty star catalogue. — Scribal colophon, mostly invisible. No marginal corrections or glosses.