[Tafsīr al-Taḥrīr]; [تفسير التحرير]

Contributor:

Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥasan, active 1411 (scribe)

Name:

Nīsābūrī, Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad, -1328 or 1329; Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1411

Description:

Niẓām al-Dīn al-Nīsābūrī's commentary on Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī's recension of Ptolemy's Almagest. A leaf is likely missing after the first leaf.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Yāsīn ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Siṭrābī (?) (f. 1r).; Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Nov. 2000.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.; Siṭrābī, Yāsīn ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb, former owner.; Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Relation:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Video orientation: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/2025250; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs392.html

Subject:

Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Almagest; Astronomy -- Early works to 1800; Astronomy

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, 15th century; Manuscripts, Renaissance; Codices (bound manuscripts); Commentaries; Diagrams; Tables (documents); Early works; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

213 leaves : paper; 264 x 166 (166 x 95) mm bound to 264 x 180 mm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Collation: Paper, 213 + i. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.; Layout: Written in 29 long lines.; Script: Written in a naskh script by Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥasan (colophon, f. 213r).; Decoration: Large astronomical diagram in black ink on iridescent ground (f. 156r); numerous small astronomical diagrams and a few tables (f. 18v-19v) in red ink, some diagrams with additions in gold; a few rubrications in gold, though they end close to the beginning of the text, and blank spaces have been left; overlining in red.; Binding: Dark brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind-stamped mandorla on covers and flap; plain paper doublure.; Origin: Possibly written in Persia, now Iran, dated 13 Dhū al-Qaʻdah, A.H. 813 (18 March 1411, colophon, f. 213r).; Several effaced owner's stamps (f. 1r).; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 392

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)