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Tehran, Madrasa-yi ʿĀlī-i Shahīd Muṭahharī (Sipahsālār), 4727

Collection of more than 20 works: Arabic. Date:

Ptolemaic part: 21 Rajab 671/11 February 1273 (p. 571); further dates between 2 Rabīʿ al-thānī 671/27 October 1272 (p. 200) and the evening of Wednesday, 8 Ramaḍān 671/29 March 1273 (p. 280).

Or.:

probably Maragha; copied by Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Rabīʿ al-Zarkashī (p. 571), who mentions that he also provided the diagrams and collated the text (cf. several collation notes, e.g., on pp. 130, 155, 176); marginalia that were written by al-Ṭūsī himself on a copy of his works that was read to him were incorporated in this manuscript (see the colophon for the Tadhkira on p. 424 and Ragep). An annotation on the flyleaf is explicitly indicated to have been copied from al-Shirāzī’s handwriting (p. 2).

Prov.:

a statement of endowment in the name of Muḥammad ... b. Muḥammad dated 810/1407-8 (p. 3) and the word ‘waqf’ in the upper margin of every recto. A partially erased statement of purchase and possession dated 920/1514-5 in the city of Simnān (p. 3). Another statement of purchase and ownership by Sayyid Nūr al-Dīn dated Shaʿbān 1090/September-October 1679 with an oval seal (p. 1). An ownership statement by Jamāl [al-Dīn b.] ʿAbd Allāh Ḥusaynī [Gurgānī] (p. 425, see also Dānishpazhūh & Munzawī). An ownership statement by Ibrahīm b. ʿAbd al-Ghaffār ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Raḍawī dated Dhū l-qaʿda 1144/April-May 1732 together with two of his seals, one square and one oval (p. 3). An erased ownership statement (p. 3); a partially illegible stamp (p. 309).

Cod.: oriental paper, 576 pp. (paginated with odd Hindu-Arabic numerals, Persian variants, in the upper left corner of every recto; traces of a foliation in pencil visible on most pages; no catchwords). A neat round naskh hand; mostly dotted, shaddas and hamzas often provided, occasional vowel marks. Titles of works in the collection mostly in bold black ink, on occasion with red subtitles or entirely missing. Book titles of the Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī also bold and in black thuluth, chapter and paragraph beginnings rubricated. Chapter beginnings additionally introduced by bold and overlined abjad numerals in black, subsections numbered with red overlined abjad numerals in the margins. Some textual dividers in the form of three red dots. Hindu-Arabic and abjad numbers in the main text mostly rubricated and with overlines. Numerous diagrams, tables, and a rosette (p. 501); diagram lines and geometrical points in black and red; tables with red lines, numbers and headers in red and black. Codex in good condition; some restorations with pasted slips of paper in corners and folds. Dimensions: 34.5×24.5 cm; 37 lines per page (misṭara imprints).

Cont.: astronomy, mathematics, and optics. Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s recensions of the Elements and the Almagest, together with the ‘Middle Books’ (Taḥrīr al-Mutawassiṭāt), his collection of revised treatises to be studied between the two major works.— Index: title page (p. 1); annotations for the calculation of the qibla apparently extracted from Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Tafsīr and copied from a manuscript in the hand of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shirāzī dated 4 Dhū l-qaʿda 761/16 September 1360 (p. 2); table of contents (p. 3, in the same hand as the previous entry); Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Uṣūl al-handasa li-Uqlīdis (pp. 4–98, with another copy of the diagram of p. 92 on the inlaid sheet p. 92^bis); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb al-Muʿṭayāt li-Uqlīdis (pp. 98–110); al-Ṭūsī, Kitāb al-Ukar li-Thāwdhūsiyūs (pp. 112–130); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb al-Kura al-mutaḥarrika li-Uṭūlūqus (pp. 132–135); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb Mānālāwus fī l-ashkāl al-kuriyya (pp. 138–187); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb al-Masākin li-Thāwdhūsiyūs (pp. 188–191); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb al-Manāẓir li-Uqlīdis (pp. 192–200, with additions from the Iṣlāḥ al-manāẓir by al-Kindī, e.g., on p. 200); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb Ẓāhirāt al-falak li-Uqlīdis (pp. 202–213); al-Ṭūsī, 〈Taḥrīr〉 Kitāb Thāwdhūsiyūs fī l-Ayyām wa l-layālī (pp. 214–224); al-Ṭūsī, Kitāb Awṭūlūqūs fī l-ṭulūʿ wa l-ghurūb (pp. 226–235); al-Ṭūsī, 〈Taḥrīr〉 Kitāb Ibsiqlāws fī l-maṭālīʿ (pp. 236–237); unknown, 〈Taḥrīr〉 Kitāb Arisṭarkhus fī Jirmay al-nayyirayn wa l-buʿd bayna-humā (pp. 238–244); al-Ṭūsī, Tāḥrīr Kitāb Maʾkhūdhāt Arshimīdhis (pp. 246–251); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb al-Mafrūḍāt li-Thābit b. Qurra (pp. 252–256); al-Ṭūsī, 〈Taḥrīr〉 Kitāb Maʿrifat masāḥat al-ashkāl al-basīṭa wa l-kuriyya 〈li-Banī Mūsā〉 (pp. 258–266); al-Ṭūsī, al-Risāla al-shāfiya ʿan shakk fī l-khuṭūṭ al-mutawāziyyat (pp. 268–280, without title); al-Ṭūsī, 〈Taḥrīr〉 Kitāb Arshimīdis fī l-Kura wa l-usṭūwāna 〈li-Thābit b. Qurra〉 (pp. 282–330); al-Ṭūsī, Kitāb al-Maʿrifat 〈shakl〉 al-qaṭṭāʿ (pp. 332–385; title only in the table of contents, for the ascription to al-Ṭūsī, see Richard P. Lorch, Thābit ibn Qurra. On the Sector-Figure and Related Texts, Frankfurt am Main: Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften, 2001, p. 391); al-Ṭūsī, al-Tadhkira fī ʿilm al-hayʾa (pp. 387–424); Ptolemaica (pp. 425–571); Ptolemaica (pp. 572–573); Ptolemaica (pp. 574–575); Ptolemaica (p. 576). Blank: pp. 111, 131, 136–137, 201, 225, 245, 257, 267, 281, 331, and 386.

Bibl.: Muḥammad Taqī Dānishpazhūh and ʿAlīnaqī Munzawī, Fihrist-i Kitābkhāna-yi Sipahsālār, vol. III: Kutub-i khaṭṭī alif–thāʾ, Tehran: Chāpkhāna-yi Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 1962, pp. 330, 344, etc.; F. Jamil Ragep, Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Memoir on Astronomy (al-Tadhkira fī ʿilm al-hayʾa), 2 vols, New York: Springer, 1993, vol. I, pp. 74 and 81; 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. 212 (no. 2); ParraMª 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. 302–303 and 311; Farīd Qāsimlū, Chāp ʿaksī majmūʿa-yi khaṭṭī 4727 Madrasa-yi ʿĀlī- Shahīd Muṭahharī. Majmūʿa-yi rasāʾil-i riyāḍī, Tehran: Intishārāt-i Dānishgāh-i Āzād-i Tihrān, 2010 (1389 H.S.).

pp. 426–⁠571	\p. 426\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \p. 571\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإيجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على الآية ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Majiṣṭī (p. 1). — Additional title: Kitāb al-Majiṣṭī min Taḥrīr (p. 425) — Index: title page, p. 425; author’s preface, p. 426; Book I, pp. 426–440; II, pp. 440–456; III, pp. 456–466; IV, pp. 466–476; V, pp. 476–490; VI, pp. 490–501; VII, pp. 501–513; VIII, pp. 513–525; IX, pp. 525–541; X, pp. 541–545; XI, pp. 545–555; XII, pp. 555–562; XIII, pp. 562–571. — Dated scribal colophon. Numerous collation notes in the hand of the scribe (e.g., pp. 451, 482, 505). This manuscript includes most of the glosses by al-Ṭūsī himself, in the hand of the scribe and introduced with rubricated ‘ḥāshiya’. Minor marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe, mostly indicated by siglum ṣḥ.
pp. 572–⁠574	\p. 572\ نريد أن نثبت اختلافات وقوع الخطوط في الأشكال التي يعرف منها أوضاع مراكز أفلاك عطارد في مسيراتها ومقادير أبعاد مركز التدوير عن مركزي العالم ومعدّل المسير ومقادير اختلافه الأوّل بحسب الأبعاد المختلفة ومقادير أبعاده العظام أيضًا بحسبها الق )كذا ( هي غايات اختلافه الثاني — \p. 572\ وتكون الأشكال بحسب مسير المركز بالحركة الوسطى مبتدًأ من الأوج إلى التوالي هكذا. [diagrams] \p. 573\ [tables] = 〈Risāla fī Ikhtilāfāt wuqūʿ al-khuṭūṭ fī l-ashkāl〉 (C.1.18a) . — Title: none. — The main text is followed by a set of twenty diagrams on p. 572, a large table on p. 573 and two smaller ones on p. 574. No marginal annotations.
pp. 574–⁠575	\p. 574\ [title] ليكن ا ب ج د ه الحامل على مركز ز وقطر ا ب وح عليه نقطة خارجة عن المركز وج ح د د ح ه زاويتان عليها فإن كانتا متساويتين كانت قوس د ه الأوحيّة — \p. 575\ فقد تبيّن بالاستقراء ولم يلج لي طريق برهانيّ بعد إلى ذلك والله الموفّق. = 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. 574). — No marginal annotations.
p. 576	\p. 576\ [title] ا كوكب الرأس وب كوكب الرجل (كذا) وفي المجسطي لأوّل سنة من ملك أنطونينس طول ا  و م وعرضه ز ك — \p. 576\ فخرج الطول زائدًا على ما أخذه بطلميوس بسبع وعشرين دقيقة والعرض زائدًا على ما أخذه بخمس وعشرين دقيقة فعرفنا أنّه قد تساهل فيه وعمل على التقريب دون التحقيق ولله اعلم. = Fī Shakl al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (C.1.18c) . — Title: Fī Shakl al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (p. 576). — A marginal correction in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ.