Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi Dānishkada-yi ḥuqūq, 43 D
undated; 11th/17th c. (Dānishpazhūh).
Or.:unknown; unknown copyist.
Prov.:a water-damaged statement dated Dhū l-ḥijja 126../1844-53 on the restored bottom half of f. 1 stating that the codex was part of the library of ʿAlī Qulī Mīrzā (1819–1880), 54th son of the second Qajar ruler Fatḥ ʿAlī Shāh, accompanied by his faded seal (1r). A loan statement by Ibn al-Riḍā Ḥusayn al-Ḥusaynī (1r). An ownership statement by Asad Allāh (1r). An erased statement and two faded seals (2r); a water-damaged statement in Persian (1r). A short poem about the Almagest (1r). The title ‘Sharḥ Taḥrīr Uqlīdis’ (twice, front doublure). A statement of endowment by Mahd ʿUlyā (1805–1873), the honorific title of the mother of Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh, in favour of the ‘new school of the citadel’, dated Thursday, 18 Rabīʿ al-awwal 1272/29 November 1855 (193r; a similar statement is found in MS Tehran, Ḥuqūq, 22 J, see 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. IX, p. 375, no. 19); the word ‘waqf’ written diagonally over the upper left corner of the text area in black or red on many rectos (e.g., 47r, 74r, 102r, 160r). Old shelfmarks: ‘3612’ (under a faded modern rectangular stamp), ‘9381’ (both on f. 1r).
Cod.: paper, 213+IIa ff. (unfoliated, with the number ‘223’ on f. IIar presumably indicating the original number of folios; a small sheet of paper bound after f. 100, not included in our foliation, containing part of the text in the hand of the scribe; catchwords). Main hand (2r–213v): nastaʿlīq; almost fully dotted ductus, some hamzas, no vowel marks or shaddas. The text on the first page was rewritten on the restored bottom half of f. 1v: a fine naskh with tendency to nastaʿlīq; almost fully dotted ductus. Book and chapter headings rubricated; propositions indicated by red overlined abjad numerals in the margins. Abjad numerals and Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in red. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or rarely vice versa; some diagrams lacking geometrical points (e.g., 116r–v, 118v); some blank spaces reserved for diagrams (e.g., 26v, 87v). Tables with red lines; some empty (e.g., 13v–14v, 51r–52v, 211v–212v), incomplete (e.g., 53v–54r, 175r–178r, 211r) or damaged (e.g., 70v). A damaged ornamental headpiece with arabesques in several colours on the unrestored part of f. 1v; a triple border surrounding the text area on f. 2r. Codex in bad condition; water or moisture damage in the margins throughout, particularly in the first and last parts; some wormholes, mostly around the fold, sometimes repaired by strips of paper; lower half of f. 1 repaired, upper outer margins of f. 2 torn; some smudges and stains (e.g., 19r, 38r). Dimensions 17.5×9.5 cm, written area: 10.5×4.5 cm; 20 lines per page. Brown leather covers. Type III binding.
Cont.: astronomy. — INDEX: Ptolemaica (1v–213v). Blank: 50v (except for a catchword), 54v, 61v, 80v, 100bisr, 126r, 159r–v, 167v, Iar–IIav.
Bibl.: Muḥammad Taqī Dānishpazhūh, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Dānishkada-yi ḥuqūq wa ʿulūm-i siyāsī wa iqtiṣādī-yi Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, Tehran: Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 1960 (1339 H.S.), p. 285; 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. 21); 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. 307 (no. 121).
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1v–213v
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\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدء كلّ مبدء وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجوا حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \213v\ \فليكن ا ب ج د حول ه التدوير وا ه ز قطره المارّ بنقطة ز مركز البروج ونقطتا ح ط على بعدين متساويتين \من\|| = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18)
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