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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi Dānishkada-yi adabiyyāt, 312 Ḥikmat⁢⁢

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

finished at the end of Rabīʿ al-ākhir 770/c. 11 December 1368 (90r).

Or.:

copied in Yazd by Ibrahīm b. Muḥammad b. Mardānshāh al-Fayrūzānī for himself (ʿalā yad ṣāḥibi-hi) (90r); the colophon states that the manuscript was copied from ‘a very correct exemplar’ copied from a manuscript in the hand of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī based on an autograph (min khaṭṭ al-muṣannif).

Prov.:

ownership statement by ʿAlī b. Ḥasan ʿAlī Kūh Kīlī (i.e., from Kohgiluyeh), who states that he gave the manuscript to his son Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥammad on 4 Rabīʿ al-awwal 802/4 November 1399 at Isfahan, with two faded seals (1r). A long undated ownership statement by Muẓaffar al-Munajjim al-Junābadī (d. 1031/1621-2) in red (1r), stating that he received the manuscript from Shāh ʿAbbās (r. 1588–1629), and a short note by him (90r), both with his seal; statement of inheritance by al-Junābadī’s son, Muḥammad Shafīʿ b. Muẓaffar al-Munajjim, accompanied by two impressions of his seal (1r); Persian statement, dated 1 Dhū l-qaʿda 1052/21 January 1643, by Muḥammad Shafīʿ, who donated the manuscript to his son, Muḥammad Bāghir, with two faded seals (1r). An ownership statement by Jalāl al-Islām Muḥammad Saʿīd b. Aḥmad (1r). Statement of transfer by ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Ḥusaynī al-Mutaṭabbib al-Gīlānī, with a faint seal (1r). Undated ownership statement by Aḥsan b. Muḥammad, known as Qāḍī Najm, nicknamed Ṣirafī, with two faint oval seals (1r). A Persian statement of purchase (?) (Ir); a Persian price tag ’20 Kapakī’ (1r); a Persian note about a money order to a clergy at the beginning of Ramaḍān (Iv); a Persian poem (IIr). Some faded or erased statements and seals (1r). Library stamps dated 1340/1961-2, mentioning ʿAlī Aṣghar Ḥikmat (1892–1980), the former Iranian Minister of Culture, as the donor of the manuscript (e.g., Ir, 49v, 90v).

Cod.: paper, II+90+I^a ff. (foliated with Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in pen; ff. 31–40 erroneously bound between ff. 10 and 11; small paper slips bound after ff. 2 and 4; no catchwords). A naskh hand with tendency to nastaʿlīq; almost fully dotted ductus, some vowel marks, shaddas and hamzas. Book headings rubricated; section headings in red and introduced by dark-greenish overlined abjad numerals; propositions numbered with red overlined abjad numerals in the margins. Abjad numerals overlined or in red with overlines; Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in red with overlines. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or sometimes vice versa. Tables with red lines; some table headers missing (27v, 64r, 65r–66v, 79v–80v). Codex in good condition; some water damage, mostly confined to the upper outer margins and corners; some margins, corners and folds restored; some stains (e.g., ff. 86v–88v). Dimensions: quarto (Dānishpazhūh); 30 lines per page. Black leather covers over cardboard. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: unidentified excerpt on the planetary model of Saturn (IIv); short note about the study order of the ‘Middle Books’ (al-Mutawassiṭāt) (IIv, by a different hand); Ptolemaica (1v–90r). Blank: I^ar–v.

Bibl.: Muḥammad Taqī Dānishpazhūh, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Dānishkada-yi Adabiyyāt. Majmūʿa-yi waqfī-yi Janāb-i Āqā-yi ʿAlī Aṣghar Ḥikmat, vol. II, Tehran: Kitābkhāna-yi Dānishkada-yi Adabiyyāt, 1962 (1341 H.S.), p. 75; 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. 212 (no. 4); 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. 306–307 (no. 120)}.

1v–⁠90r	\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \90r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على {خا}تم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Kitāb Majisṭī Taḥrīri-hi (1r). — Additional Title: Majisṭī (Ir, IIr) . — Index: preface, 1v; Book I, 1v–10v; II, 10v–18v; III, 18v–24v; IV, 24v–32r; V, 32r–40v; VI, 40v–47v; VII, 47v–54v; VIII, 54v–62r; IX, 62r–72v; X, 72v–74v; XI, 75r–80v; XII, 80v–84v; XIII, 84v–90r. — Dated scribal colophon. Frequent and extensive marginal annotations by the scribe; few additional diagrams, e.g., from al-Nīsābūrī’s Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) on f. 44v. Frequent and extensive marginal annotations in a nastaʿlīq hand using the siglum ʿl (e.g., 13v, 18v, 33r), also on the separate sheets 2^bis, 4^bis and one attached to f. IIr.

1v–⁠90r

\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \90r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على {خا}تم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.

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

. — Title: Kitāb Majisṭī Taḥrīri-hi (1r). — Additional Title: Majisṭī (Ir, IIr) . — Index: preface, 1v; Book I, 1v–10v; II, 10v–18v; III, 18v–24v; IV, 24v–32r; V, 32r–40v; VI, 40v–47v; VII, 47v–54v; VIII, 54v–62r; IX, 62r–72v; X, 72v–74v; XI, 75r–80v; XII, 80v–84v; XIII, 84v–90r. — Dated scribal colophon. Frequent and extensive marginal annotations by the scribe; few additional diagrams, e.g., from al-Nīsābūrī’s Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) on f. 44v. Frequent and extensive marginal annotations in a nastaʿlīq hand using the siglum ʿl (e.g., 13v, 18v, 33r), also on the separate sheets 2^bis, 4^bis and one attached to f. IIr.