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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-yi 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 positions for Tuesday, the 29^th 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). A repeated ownership statement by Shams al-Kishmarī next to a round seal ‘Jaʿala al-shams ḍiyāʾ’ with floral decorations and dated 1045/1635-5 (1r, 126v; the seal also on f. 130r); 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; leaf 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. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals 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\ 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.

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\ 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.