PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi markazi-i 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.:

microfilm number: ‘6831’ (Ir, rectangular stamp on f. 110v). 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-i 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\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته، 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.