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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-yi Dānishgāh-i Tehrān, 7190

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Collection of four works and an appendix: Arabic. Date:

undated; 10^th–11^th/16^th–17^th c. (Dānishpazhūh).

Or.:

unknown, probably Persian; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

the word waqf written through the main text in red (1v, 2r), accompanied by an undated endowment statement in Persian without mention of a name (2r). Blind library stamps (e.g., 1v, 7v, 252v); contemporary library stamps (I^ar, III^av, and inside back doublure).

Cod.: Sipāhānī paper (Dānishpazhūh), 252+III^a ff. (foliated with Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in black, only rarely visible on ff. 1–80 and 188–252 due to the damage to the manuscript; no catchwords). A single nastaʿlīq hand. Sparsely dotted ductus; no vowel marks, shaddas or hamzas; few maddas. Book headings in the first Ptolemaic work in greyish green and red, with catch titles in red tawqīʿ in the upper margins; section headings in greyish green; proposition numbers in red overlined abjad in the margins; abjad and Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in the text in red or overlined; diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or vice versa; tables with greyish-green frames and red lines; some empty tables (135r–136v, 213v–214v). Subdivisions in the second and third works in red or overlined in red; abjad numerals not highlighted in the last work. Empty space for a headpiece and a rule-border in greyish green around the main text (1v–2r); a red rule-border (211r). Codex severely damaged, especially by rodents in the upper corners from f. 81 onwards, occasionally affecting tables and diagrams; damage by water, stains and smudges, binding becoming loose. Dimensions: 20×11 cm, written area: 11×4.5 cm; 17 lines per page. Modern leather cover in brown and greyish-brown. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–211r); Ptolemaica (211v–214v); Muʾayyad al-Dīn al-ʿUrḍī, Kayfiyyat al-arṣād (219v–248r, with empty spaces for diagrams); Muʾayyad al-Dīn al-ʿUrḍī, Fī stikhrāj mā bayna markazay al-shams wa-mawḍiʿ awji-hā (248v–251r); Ptolemaica (251v–252r). Blank: 215r–218v, 219r (except for a short annotation), 252v, I^av–II^ar, II^av (except for the shelfmark), III^ar. The three works by al-ʿUrḍī here appear in the same order as in MS Tehran, Majlis, 1281 Ṭ.

Bibl.: Muḥammad Taqī Dānishpazhūh, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Markazī wa Markaz-i Asnād-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, Vol. XVI: 〈Shumārahā-yi 5401-8000〉, Tehran: Chāpkhāna-yi Dānishgāh-yi Tihrān, 1979 (1357 H.S.), p. 479; 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. 23); 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. 306 (no. 119).

1v–⁠211r	\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \211r\ فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه. تمّت. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: None. — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–23v; II, 23v–34v (chapters 3–7 missing); III, 34v–56r; IV, 56r–73v; V, 73v–94v; VI, 94v–111v; VII, 111v–126v; VIII, 126v–145v; IX, 145v–168r; X, 168r–174v; XI, 174v–186v; XII, 186v–196r; XIII, 196r–211r. — No authorial or scribal colophon. Few marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Frequent collation marks, sometimes partially trimmed (e.g., 68v, 102r, 190r). Few marginal annotations in a different nastaʿlīq hand.
211v–⁠214v	\211v\ نريد أن نثبت اختلافات وقوع الخطوط في الأشكال التي يعرف منها أوضاع مراكز أفلاك عطارد في مسيراتها — وتكون الأشكال بحسب مسير المركز بالحركة الوسطى مبتدئًا من الأوج إلى التوالي هكذا. \212r\ [diagrams] \213v\ [tables] = Risāla fī khtilāfāt wuqūʿ al-khuṭūṭ fī l-ashkāl (C.1.18a) . — Title: none. — No marginal corrections or annotations. The frames of all three tables are left empty.
251v–⁠252r	\251v\ [title] ليكن الخطّ المارّ بالمراكز والأوج البطيء الحركة ا ب ج ذ وليكن ا مركز البروج وب مركز معدّل المسير وج مركز المدير — \252r\ فمربّعا ا ل ا م متساويان وزاويتا د ا ل ه ا م متساويتان وذلك ما أردنا أن نبيّن. = Muʾayyad al-Din al-ʿUrḍī, Muqaddima fī taṣḥīḥ burhān al-shakl al-rābiʿ min tāsiʿat al-Majisṭī (C.1.20) . — Title: Muqaddima tābiʿa fī taṣḥīḥ burhān al-shakl al-rābiʿ min tāsiʿa bi-l-Majisṭī min kalāmi-hi ayḍan (251v). — No authorial or scribal colophon. No marginal corrections or annotations. The figure that is usually appended to this treatise is here missing.