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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi markazī-yi Dānishgāh-i Tehrān, Ilahiyyāt 281 J⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]
Single work: Arabic.  Date:

undated; 8th/14th or 9th/15th c. (Ḥujjatī).

  Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

  Prov.:

Owner’s name ʿAlī b. Mūsā (1r). Owner’s statement of a son of Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm, with his first name and a rectangular and an oval seal all erased (1r). A rectangular seal of Muḥammad Shafīʿ dated 1079/​1668-9, a rectangular seal ‘ʿabd Allāh ʿAbdallāh’ dated 1124/​1712-3, and an oval seal ‘ʿAbdallāh …’ dated 1114/​1702-3 (200r, lined up vertically under the explicit). Mention of title and author of the work, together with an ownership statement dated to the end of Muḥarram 1090/​mid February 1679, with the name and a rectangular seal erased (1r). An oval religious seal (106v). An erased ownership statement (200v); ownership statement by Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Mahdī b. Sulaymān b. ʿAlī Baḥrānī …, dated to the last day (salkh) of Shaʿbān 1150/​22 December 1737 (200v). An erased price (1r); statement of purchase by Fāḍil Tūnī for 20 tūmān, with year 1356/​1937-8 (IIv); a price of 200 riyāl, with the name Fāḍil Tūnī and the title Majisṭī (1r). Almond-shaped stamp of the ‘Kitābkhāna-yi Dānishkada-yi ʿulūm-i maʿqūl wa-manqūl’ with accession number ‘14655’ and year of accession 〈13〉41/1962 (1r).

Cod.: paper, II+200+Ia ff. (unfoliated; small inserted slips after ff. 12, 160, 173, and 187; catchwords). A single neat naskh hand in black with tendency to thuluth; completely dotted ductus with frequent vowel marks and many hamzas and shaddas; some elongated bowls and sīn frequently written with three dots below. Basmala in bold gold thuluth with blue vowel marks (1v). Book headers in bold gold thuluth, book titles in red; section numbers in abjad in gold, encircled in blue; section titles in enlarged bold black thuluth. Proposition numbers in encircled red abjad in the margins. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals in the text in red, overlined in black. Red overlines or overwrites used to emphasise some more words and phrases. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points, occasionally the other way around. Tables with a golden frame and blue rule-border and some of the column headers in blue; constellation names in the star catalogue written in enlarged black, red and blue thuluth; a rosette (108r). Codex in bad condition; major water damage on the edges and in the folds of all leaves, bottom part of f. 198 torn and restored, some small restorations on the first and last pages, some large stains (56r, 197r–v); significant damage on the covers. Dimensions: 24.5×15 cm, written area: 15×8 cm; 21 lines per page. Brown leather covers and flap with gilded mandorlas, corner-pieces and frame; doublures with blackish onlays of similar decorative elements. Type II binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–200r). Blank: IIr, 12bisv, 160bisv, 173bisv, 187bisr, Iar–v.

Bibl.: Muḥammad Bāqir Ḥujjatī, Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Dānish­kada-yi Ilāhiyyāt wa Maʿārif-i Islāmī, 2 vols, Tehran: Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 1966–1969, pp. 482–483; FankhāMuṣṭafā Dirāyatī, Fihristgān-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Īrān (Fankhā), 45 vols, Tehran: Library, Museum and Documentation Center of The Islamic Consultative Assembly, 2011–2014 (1390–1393 H.S.), vol. VII, p. 212 (no. 9); 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. 307–308 (no. 123).

1v–⁠200r

\1v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \200r\ 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 Kitāb al-Majisṭī (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–24r; II, 24r–41r; III, 41r–55r; IV, 55r–73r; V, 73r–92r; VI, 92r–108v; VII, 108v–125v; VIII, 125v–142v; IX, 142v–165v; X: 165v–171v; XI, 172r–183v; XII, 183v–193r; XIII, 193r–200r. — No authorial or scribal colophon. Some interlinear corrections indicated by siglum ṣḥ (e.g., 4r); frequent interlinear annotations or additions. Numerous glosses in nastaʿlīq all through the codex, including on the inserted sheets 160bis, 173bis and 187bis, occasionally with additional diagrams and mostly marked with siglum sh or Hindu numerals ‘2’ and ‘3’. Hamid Bohloul (personal communication) identified the author of the glosses as ʿAbd al-Razzāq b. Muḥammad al-Kāshī, known as Muʿīn al-Munajjim or Muʿīn al-Dīn al-Rāṣid, the son-in-law of the well-known mathematician and astronomer Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd al-Kāshī; Younes Mahdavi identified the author of the alternative proof on f. 12bis as Ghiyāth al-Dīn himself.