PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-yi Dānishgāh-i Tehrān, 1886⁢⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]
Single work: Arabic.  Date:

undated; 11th/17th c. (Dānishpazhūh).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

library stamp with date 1328 hs/1949-50 (Ir, 41v, 83v, 110v); blind-stamped library stamps (e.g., 71v).

Cod.: paper, I+110 ff. (unfoliated; marks indicating the middle of quires, mostly on every eighth verso; catchwords). A single nastaʿlīq hand; fully dotted ductus. Book and chapter titles in red; chapter numbers in enlarged overlined abjad in black. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals in red, sometimes overlined; geometrical points in the text in black with overlines in black or red. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or vice versa . Tables only included in full in the first two books, then unfilled or entirely omitted. Codex in very good condition; some wear to the first and last leaves, some water damage; significant wear to the covers. Dimensions: 25×19 cm, written area: 18×12 cm; 21 lines per page. Brown leather covers with blind-stamped mandorla with pendants, corner-pieces and frame; brown leather doublures. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: drawing of a parallactic ruler from al-Nīsābūrī’s Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (Iv); Ptolemaica (1v–110v). Blank: 1r, 19v, 23v–24r, 60v, 67v–69r, 75v–76r, 77v–78r, 92r, 97r (in nearly all cases due to omitted tables).

Bibl.: Muḥammad Taqī Dānishpazhūh, Fihrist-i Kitābkhāna-yi Markazī-yi Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, Vol. VIII: Nuskhahā-i khaṭṭī-yi shumārahā-yi 1321 - 2120, Tehran: Chāpkhāna-yi Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 1961 (1339 H.S.), p. 490; 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. 213 (no. 20); 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. 305 (no. 117).

1v–⁠110v

\1v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجوا حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \110v\ ولأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.

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

. — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī  (Ir). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–14v; II, 14v–24v; III, 24v–33r; IV, 33r–42r; V, 42r–54r; VI, 54r–64r; VII, 64r–67r (star catalogue omitted); 〈VIII〉, 69v–74r, 76v (star catalogue omitted); IX, 76v–77r, 74r–75r, 78v–86r; X, 86r–89v; XI, 89v–98r; XII, 98r–103r; XIII, 103r–110v. Part of Book IX (starting two lines from the bottom on f. 74r) displaced. — No authorial or scribal colophon. Only very few marginal corrections. No glosses.