Descriptive Information

Title

تحرير المجسطي

Transliterated Title

Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī.

Call Number

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 34Yq

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/6108vf53j

Publisher

[1907]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1907

Format

Manuscript

Extent

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

Provenance

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.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 4870

Sezgin, F. GAS, VI, p. 93/28

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

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 مقالة

Explicit: 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 واهليائه

Physical 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.

Binding Note

Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Blind-tooled and stamped. Blue and burgundy marbled paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject

Astronomy, Arab—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

102

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ed1b26a7-53df-469e-af67-f6b3b4f49c16/manifest

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