تحرير المجسطي

Title:

تحرير المجسطي

Alternative title:

Majisṭī
Taḥrīr al-Mijistī

Creator:

Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274

Contributor:

كاشف ال غطاء، هادي

Date:

1907

Description:

Abstract: "Edition of Ptolemy's AlmagestAbstract: composed in 644/1247 (see GAS and margin of the colophon)."Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Blind-tooled and stamped. Blue and burgundy marbled paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from beginning of text (fol. 3b, l. 17 2b in the faulty modern foliation). The name of the author appears in the colophon.Incipit: احمد الله مبدء كل مبتء وغاية كل غاية ... وبعد فقد كنت برهة من الزمان عازما على ان احرّر لنفسي ولساير طلبة العلم من الاخوان كتاب المجسطي المنسوب الى بطلميوس ... وها انا اخوض فى المقصود واقول الكتاب مشتمل على ثلثة عشر مقالةExplicit: قال واذا اتممنا جميع ما يفتقر الى ارشاده من وجود ما يحتاج الى وجوده وتصحيح ما يحتاج الى تصحيحه ... حامدا له على الاته مصليا على جميع اوليائه خصوصا على خاتم انبيائه وبرزة من اله واهليائهPhysical description: 27 lines per page. Written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of magenta and red. The text is framed within two lines in magenta, with a pagination in Arabic numerals in the middle of the top of the frame (starts with "2" on fol. 3b). Contains diagrams, tables and figures. Collation notes on the margins. Jadwal on a leaf pasted between fol. 8 and 9. Table of contents on fol. 1b-2b -1b in the faulty modern foliation by the same hand as the main text (whose name is given as Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir ibn ... ibn Muḥammad al-... al-Faḍlī in the colophon of the Fihrist, fol. 2b). Title in Arabic script on a spine label (horizontal): "Majisṭī". Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).Inscription in Arabic script in red pencil on fol. 1a: "Raqm 43".Origin: Copy completed on Friday 19 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1324 Jan. 4, 1907 by Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir ibn al-Ḥabīb(?) ibn al-Muḥsin ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Turkī al-Faḍlī (colophon, fol. 94a 93a in the faulty modern foliation). According to a note on the left margin of the colophon, this copy was collated with an autograph copy.

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Early works to 1800

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Astronomy, Arab—Early works to 1800

Provenance:

Former owner: 'Kāshif al-GhiṭāʼHādī1872 or 1873-1942'From the books of al-Hādī, Āl Kāshif al-Ghiṭāʼ al-Najafī, dated 1332 H. 1913 or 14 (ex libris on fol. 3a, 2a in the faulty modern foliation). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Extent:

95 leaves : paper, ill. ; 280 x 202 (205 x 120) mm. bound to 280 x 205 mm.

Publisher:

1907

Rights:

https://rbsc.princeton.edu/services/imaging-publication-services

Identifier:

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 34Yq
Electronic Resource
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Is part of:

Robert Garrett
Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
Collections Donated to Princeton University Library

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