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

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

undated; 10^th/16^th–11^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 statement of endowment in Persian without mention of a name (2r). Blind stamps of the library (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 black Hindu-Arabic numerals, Persian variants, in the top left corner of rectos, mainly visible between ff. 81–187 due to the damage to the manuscript; four irregular folio numbers by the same hand between ff. 12 and 22; no catchwords). A single nastaʿlīq hand. Sparsely dotted ductus; no vowel marks, shaddas or hamzas; few maddas. Book headings in greyish green and red in the first Ptolemaic work; subdivisions in the second (ff. 219v–248r) and third (ff. 248v–251r) work in red or overlined in red. Book headings of the first Ptolemaic work additionally displayed as catch titles in red tawqīʿ in the upper margins, occasionally damaged. Headings of subchapters numbered and in greyish green. Propositions (ashkāl) in the first work numbered in the margins by red and overlined abjad numerals. Abjad numerals and Hindu-Arabic numerals, Persian variants, in red or overlined but not highlighted in the last work. Diagram lines in red with black geometrical points or vice versa in the first Ptolemaic work. Table lines in red, table frames in greyish-green with minor exceptions; some empty tables in the Ptolemaic parts (135r–136v, 213v–214v). 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 figures; further damage by water, stains and smudges; binding becoming loose. Dimensions: 20×11 cm (library card on scans), 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 appear in the same order as in MS Tehran, Majlis, 1281 Ṭ.

Bibl.: Muḥammad Taqī Dānishpazhūh, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-i Kitābkhāna-yi Markazī wa Markaz-i Asnād-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, vol. XVI: 〈Shumārahʹhā-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); ParraMª 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.

1v–⁠211r	\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية وأصلّي على عباده المخصوصين بالعناية والدراية سيّما محمّد وآله الموسومين بالنبوّة والولاية — \211r\ وأقول وإذ وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإيجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على الآية 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: author’s 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 ومقادير أبعاد مركز التدوير عن مركزي العالم ومعدّل المسير — وتكون الأشكال بحسب مسير المركز بالحركة الوسطى مبتدئًا من الأوج إلى التوالي هكذا. \212r\ [diagrams] \213v\ [tables] = 〈Risāla fī Ikhtilāfāt 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\ ولأنّ زاويتي ل م قائمتان و وترى ب د ب ه متساويان فمربّعا د ل ا ل مثل مربّعي ه م ا م لكن مربّعا د ل ه م متساويان 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.