PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Tehran, Madrasa-yi ʿĀlī-i Shahīd Muṭahharī (Sipahsālār), 591⁢⁢⁢

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Incomplete single work: Arabic.  Date:

undated; 12th/18th c. (Dānishpazhūh).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

ownership statement by Maḥmūd al-Ṭabīb b. Amīr Khiḍr al-Ḥusaynī (p. I). A Persian statement of endowment of ‘this volume of the Almagest’ to the Nāṣirī mosque and madrasa, dated Friday, 15 Dhū l-ḥijja 1297/​19 November 1880, with an oval seal of the library and a rectangular waqf seal of Ḥājjī Mīrzā Ḥusayn Khān Sipahsālār Mushīr al-Dawla Aʿẓam (p. I).

Cod.: paper, I+380+Ia pp. (paginated in pencil with Hindu-Arabic numerals, p. 1 being a verso; catchwords). A single neat naskh hand in black; fully dotted ductus. Book titles only indicated by a basmala (only the title of Book I in red); section numbers in red abjad. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals in red. Diagrams with red lines, mostly incomplete. Tables with red lines, mostly only partially filled; a rosette (p. 209). Codex in very good condition; water stains on the first fifty pages, fold of the last leaf restored. Dimensions: 21×15 cm, written area 12×18 cm; 17 lines per page. Brown leather covers on cardboard.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (pp. 1–380). Blank: p. 373 and presumably p. Ia.

Bibl.: Muḥammad Taqī Dānishpazhūh and ʿAlī Naqī Munzawī, Fihrist-i Kitābkhāna-yi Sipahsālār, Vol. III: Kutub-i khaṭṭī alif–thāʾ, Tehran: Chāpkhāna-yi Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 1962, pp. 343–344; 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. 46); 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. 299–300 (no. 111).

pp. 1–⁠380

\p. 1\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \p. 380\ وللسفليّين خمسة صفوف أحدها لمبادئ البروج والأربعة الباقية للظهورات والاخفاءات المسائيّة والصباحيّة في الجداول [table]

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

. — Title: Taḥrīr Majisṭī Baṭlamyūs (p. I). — Alternative title: Majisṭī (p. I). — Index: preface, pp. 1–2; Book I, pp. 2–46; II, pp. 46–76; III, pp. 77–105; IV, pp. 105–137; V, pp. 138–178; VI, pp. 178–210; VII, pp. 210–232; VIII, pp. 232–258; IX, pp. 259–301; X, pp. 301–312; XI, pp. 312–334; XII, pp. 334–350; XIII, pp. 350–380 (incomplete). Section XIII.11 and possible colophons were omitted or lost; an illegible signature under the last table (p. 380). — Only very few marginal corrections. No glosses.