Description of University of Pennsylvania LJS 392: Tafsīr al-Taḥrīr.

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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.

Arabic Tafsīr al-Taḥrīr. [تفسير التحرير] Nīsābūrī, Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad, -1328 or 1329 نيسابوري، نظام الدين الحسن بن محمد، Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد، scribe Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥasan, active 1411 محمد بن الحسين الحسن، former owner Kīlānī, Yāsīn ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Ṭarābīshī former owner Schoenberg, Lawrence J

paper

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

Paper, 213 + i. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.

Written in 29 long lines. Written in a naskh script by Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥasan (colophon, f. 213r). 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. Illuminated text, f. 2r Illuminated text, f. 2v Diagram, f. 2v Diagram, f. 3r Illuminated text, f. 3v Illuminated text, f. 4r Illuminated diagram, f. 4v Illuminated text, f. 5v Illuminated diagram, f. 5v Diagram, f. 6v Diagram, f. 7v Diagram, f. 8r Illuminated diagram, f. 8v Diagram, f. 9r Diagram, f. 10r Diagram, f. 12r Illuminated text, f. 12v Diagram, f. 14r Diagram, f. 14v Diagram, f. 15r Diagram, f. 19r Diagram, f. 19v Diagram, f. 21r Diagram, f. 21v Diagram, f. 22r Diagram, f. 22v Diagram, f. 23v Diagram, f. 24v Diagram, f. 26v Diagram, f. 27r Diagram, f. 28r Diagram, f. 28v Diagram, f. 29v Illuminated diagram, f. 30v Illuminated diagram, f. 31r Illuminated text, f. 31v Illuminated text, f. 32r Illuminated text, f. 32v Diagram, f. 32v Illuminated text, f. 33r Illuminated text, f. 33v Diagram, f. 34r Illuminated diagram, f. 37r Illuminated diagram, f. 39r Illuminated diagram, f. 45v Illuminated text, f. 49r Illuminated text, f. 50v Diagram, f. 50v Illuminated diagram, f. 52v Illuminated diagram, f. 53r Diagram, f. 56r Diagram, f. 56v Diagram, f. 57r Diagram, f. 57v Diagram, f. 58r Diagram, f. 59r Diagram, f. 61r Diagram, f. 61v Diagram, f. 62r Diagram, f. 62v Diagram, f. 65r Diagram, f. 66v Diagram, f. 67r Diagram, f. 68r Illuminated text, f. 69v Illuminated diagram, f. 73v Illuminated diagram, f. 74r Diagram, f. 75v Diagram, f. 79r Diagram, f. 79v Diagram, f. 80v Illuminated text, f. 81v Diagram, f. 83v Diagram, f. 86v Diagram, f. 87r Diagram, f. 88r Diagram, f. 91r Diagram, f. 95r Diagram, f. 95v Diagram, f. 96r Diagram, f. 98v Diagram, f. 100v Diagram, f. 101v Illuminated text, f. 103r Diagram, f. 103v Diagram, f. 105r Diagram, f. 106r Illuminated text, f. 106v Diagram, f. 110r Diagram, f. 111r Diagram, f. 112r Diagram, f. 113v Diagram, f. 114r Diagram, f. 117v Diagram, f. 119v Diagram, f. 122v Diagram, f. 124r Diagram, f. 125r Diagram, f. 126r Diagram, f. 128r Diagram, f. 130r Diagram, f. 130v Diagram, f. 131r Diagram, f. 133r Diagram, f. 134r Diagram, f. 134v Diagram, f. 135r Diagram, f. 136r Diagram, f. 137v Diagram, f. 138r Illuminated text, f. 142v Diagram, f. 145v Diagram, f. 146r Illuminated text, f. 147r Diagram, f. 151r Illuminated diagram, f. 156r Illuminated diagram, f. 157v Diagram, f. 159v Diagram, f. 160r Illuminated text, f. 161r Diagram, f. 162v Diagram, f. 163r Illuminated diagram, f. 164v Illuminated diagram, f. 166r Illuminated diagram, f. 168r Illuminated text, f. 168v Diagram, f. 168v Diagram, f. 173v Diagram, f. 174r Diagram, f. 175r Diagram, f. 176v Illuminated text, f. 177v Diagram, f. 178v Diagram, f. 180r Diagram, f. 180v Diagram, f. 181r Diagram, f. 181v Diagram, f. 182v Diagram, f. 184r Diagram, f. 184v Diagram, f. 186v Diagram, f. 188v Diagram, f. 193r Diagram, f. 196v Diagram, f. 200v Diagram, f. 203r Diagram, f. 206v Diagram, f. 209v

Dark brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind-stamped mandorla on covers and flap; plain paper doublure.

Possibly written in Persia, now Iran, dated 13 Dhū al-Qaʻdah, A.H. 813 (18 March 1411, colophon, f. 213r).

A.H. 813 (1411) Iran? Formerly owned by Yāsīn ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Ṭarābī (f. 1r), who can be identified as Yāsīn b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Ṭarābīshī al-Kīlānī, the owner of numerous manuscripts currently held at the Waṭaniyya (Damascus) and al-Azhar (Cairo) libraries with statements of ownership dated between A.H. 1228/1813 and A.H. 1243/1827-8 (Bellver) Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, November 2000. Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011. Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016. Ptolemy,--active 2nd century--Almagest Astronomy--Early works to 1800 Astronomy Manuscripts, Arabic Manuscripts, 15th century Manuscripts, Renaissance Commentaries Tables (Data) codices (bound manuscripts) diagrams Early works