Work C.1.38
Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī
تفسير تحرير المجسطي
Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī
An extensive commentary on al-Ṭūsī’s recension of the Almagest (C.1.18). In the long authorial preface al-Nīsābūrī (c. 1270–1328) states that he wrote this commentary at the request of his teacher, Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī (1236–1311), and he dedicates it to Muḥammad ibn al-Sāwajī (d. 1312), who was a minister at the time of the Ilkhanid sultan Ghāzān (r. 1295–1304; see Morrison, p. 38). Al-Nīsābūrī started to work on this commentary in 703/1304 and, according to the authorial colophon, completed it on 6 Shaʿbān 704/4 March 1305. According to the colophon of Book VI, a long interruption of more than six months occurred between the compilation of the commentary on Books V and VI due to al-Nīsābūrī’s journey from Khurasan to Azerbaijan, among other unspecified reasons. Alternative titles: Kitāb Ḥāshiyya ʿalā l-Majisṭī; Sharḥ Majisṭī; Sharḥ Sharḥ Majisṭī; Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī; Sharḥ Tajrīd li-Majisṭī.
Content: This work contains thirteen books and is further divided into chapters exactly following the structure of al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr (and hence of the Almagest itself). The text consists of selected quotations from al-Ṭūsī’s recension (introduced by qawlu-hū) followed by al-Nīsābūrī’s comments (introduced by aqūlu). Some diagrams are taken from al-Ṭūsī’s recension, and some others were added by al-Nīsābūrī. The text contains only a few auxiliary tables, all of which were added by al-Nīsābūrī.
Note Every book ends with an authorial colophon, dated as follows [from Berlin, SBPK, Or. oct. 3031; occasional deviations are mentioned in the manuscript descriptions]: Book I, finished 2 Jumādā l-ākhira 703/11 January 1304; II, 13 Jumādā l-ākhira 703/22 January 1304; III, 1 Rajab 703/8 February 1304; IV, 14 Rajab 703/21 February 1304; V, 5 Shaʿbān 703/13 March 1304; VI, 7 Rabīʿ al-awwal 704/8 October 1304; VII, 16 Rabīʿ al-ākhir 704/16 November 1304; VIII, 3 Jumādā l-ūlā 704/2 December 1304; IX, Jumādā l-ūlā 704/December 1304; X, 7 Jumādā l-ākhira 704/5 January 1305; XI, 18 Jumādā l-ākhira 704/16 January 1305; XII, 6 Rajab 704/2 February 1305; XIII, 6 Shaʿbān 704/4 March 1305.
Text: [Istanbul, Topkapı, Ahmet III 3330, with two additions between angular brackets from MS Istanbul, Köprülü, Fazıl Ahmed Paşa 942]
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