Descriptive Information

Title

شرح التذكرة النصيرية للسيد الشريف علي بن محمد الجرجاني

Transliterated Title

Sharḥ al-Tadhkirah al-Naṣīrīyah / lil-Sayyid al-Sharīf ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 55B

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/vm40xv207

Publisher

Bursa: [1490].

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1490

Format

Manuscript

Extent

96 leaves : paper ; 210 x 135 (151 x 80 mm.) bound to 213 x 145 mm.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1925, from the books of Murād Bey Bārūdī (Beirut).

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 979

Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, p. 217/31

Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, p. 511/40c

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from title page in a later hand (fol. (i)a, later paper).

25 long lines per page. Written in black ink, and illustrated with diagrams. The commented text is overlined in red (stops after fol. 59b). On some pages, the text is enclosed within a frame of one red line (see fol. 46b-47a). Glazed paper with laid and chain lines visible (the latter horizontal and grouped by three and four; vertical from fol. 58). Some leaves are later replacements (fol. 4; 6; 7; 9; 11; 16; 17; these later leaves are European glazed paper with watermark). It seems that part of the original pages aged differently than others (these pages are dark brown and very fragile, most of them are badly damaged with loss of text); some of these pages are placed between the original leaves wrapped in modern paper on which the text is copied (see between ff. 25 and 26). Contains marginal notes (some in Hebrew, see fol. 38b-39a), reading statement and recipe on fol. 98b. Worm-eaten.

Collation: Paper, fol. i (later paper) + 96 + i (later paper) ; 1-2¹⁰ 3-4⁸ 5¹² 6⁸ 7¹² 8⁸ 9¹² 10⁸ ; catchwords on the verso of each leaf starting fol. 57b.

Ends with the original colophon, where it is stated that this book was completed in Shīrāz in the middle of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 811 H. [1409].

Copied in Bursa in the middle of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 895 H. (colophon, fol. 97b: "yawm al-thulathā fī waqt al-ḍaḥḥī min awāsiṭ Dhī al-Ḥijjah")

Opening: و عليه نتوكل وبه نستعين تبارك الذي ... وصحابته الاخيار تسليماً كثيراً

Incipit: فان علم الهيئة مرقات منصوبة الى معارج السموات العلي ومدارك ما اودع الله فيها

Explicit: الف الف واربعمائه واثتى عشر الفا وثمانمائه وتسعه وتسعين فراسخا هذا منتهى الابعاد الم[...] المقادير واما بعد الفلك الاعظم فلا يعلم الا الله سبحانه وتعالى وفي بعض النسخ ولنختم الكتاب ههنا حامدين لله ... وقع الفراغ عن بسط الكتاب ... يوم الثلثا من اواسط دى الحجه سنه احدى عشر وثمانمائه بمحروسه شيراز [...] الاعواز تم

Binding Note

Upper and lower covers and envelope flap made of dark brown leather over pasteboards. The upper and lower covers have a central blind-stamped mandorla panel, connected to an outer frame by two blind-tooled lines, one vertical and the other horizontal. The outer frame is formed of blind-tooled lines and a row of s-stamps. The envelope flap has a portion of the same blind-stamped pattern. Worm-eaten.

Discovery Information

Subject

Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad 1201-1274—Tadhkirah fī ʻilm al-hayʾah

Astronomy, Medieval—Islamic countries—Early works to 1800

Astronomy, Arab—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

107

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7c0bd3ab-086e-4a70-b087-22505d2664a8/manifest

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