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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi markazi-i Dānishgāh-i Tehrān, 468⁢⁢⁢

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Single work: Arabic.  Date:

undated.

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

a list of spices (1r). A note on the meaning of ‘al-Majisṭī’ and the contents of the work (1r). An Arabic poem quoted from al-Nīsābūrī and two Persian poems, one by Saʿdī (1r). A Persian note on chronology, mentioning Adam and the Flood (1r). A quotation on planetary motion from ‘Sharḥ Mawlāna Niẓam al-Dīn’, with a diagram (1r). Several Persian poems (127r and 140v). A note on geometry and a short note giving planetary position for Tuesday, the 29th of an unspecified month and year (139r). Two impressions of a seal ‘ʿabdu-hu Ismāʿīl’ (1r). A seal of Muḥammad ʿAlī (126v, 140v). an oval seal of al-Ḥusaynī (139r). Ownership statement by Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Iṣfahānī, with a smeared oval seal (1r). An ownership statement by Shams al-Kishmarī next to a round seal ‘Jaʿala al-shams ḍiyāʾ’ with floral decorations and dated 1045/​1635-5 (1r); another ownership statement by him (140v, upside down). From the collection of Āqā Sayyid Muḥammad Mishkāt; oval stamp of the Mishkāt Library (1r, 138v). Round stamp of the Central Library of Tehran University (1r, 140v).

Cod.: paper, I+140 ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals on rectos; leaves after f. 6 unnumbered; a paper slip with an unfinished diagram inserted after f. 140; catchwords in the first work). At least two different nastaʿlīq hands for the first work (1v–97v and 98r–126v); partially dotted ductus. Book and chapter titles in red; book numbers bold, section numbers bold and overlined. Hindu-Arabic and abjad numerals in the text inconsistently in red and/or overlined. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or the other way around. Tables with red lines; a rosette (77r). Ff. 127–138 in a very dense black nastaʿlīq with freehand diagrams and tables; red only used in al-Nīsābūrī’s drawings of instruments on f. 136r, probably by a different hand. Codex in acceptable condition; major water damage at all edges, especially on the first and last folios, but not hindering the reading of the main text. Dimensions: 25×18 cm, written area: 17×11 cm; 26 lines per page. Brown leather covers. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–126v); Ptolemaica (127r–138v). Blank: 139r–140r.

Bibl.: Muḥammad Taqī Dānishpazhūh, Fihrist-i Kitābkhāna-i ihdāʾī-i Āqā Sayyid Muḥammad Mishkāt bih Kitābkhāna-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, vol. III/2 [=4], Tehran: Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 1953 (1332 H.S.), p. 852 (no. 1063); 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. 216 (no. 58); 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. 303–304 (no. 115).

1v–⁠126v

\1v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \126v\ 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. تمّ.

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

. — Title: al-Majisṭī li-Baṭlamyūs al-Qalūdhī (1r). — Alternative title: Kitāb Majisṭi (140v). — Index: preface, 1v; Book I, 1v–17r; II, 17v–23v (up to chapter II.7); III, 28r–35r (from chapter III.3 onwards); IV, 35r––53v, 24r; V.1–5, 24r–27v, 54r–66r; VI, 66v–77v; VII, 77v–84v; VIII, 84v–92r; IX, 92r–104r; X, 104r–106v; XI, 106v–114r; XII, 114r–120r; XIII, 120v–126v. End of Book II and beginning of Book III missing and four leaves belonging after f. 53 inserted after f. 23. — No authorial or scribal colophon. Marginal corrections; collation notes balagha al-muqābala (e.g., 7v, 24r, 48v). Topics indicated by a large naskh hand (e.g., 7v, 10v, 24r). Massive glosses up to f. 19r (section II.3), mostly indicated with siglum sh m for al-Nīsābūrī’s Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38).

127r–⁠138v
= Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38)

, extracts. — Title: Majisṭī-hi (127r). — Index: selected sections from Book I (LAMT). Some extracts written vertically. Some marginal corrections. A mention of al-Sayyid Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī in the margin of f. 135r.