[Tafsīr al-Taḥrīr].
[تفسير التحرير].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Nīsābūrī, Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad, -1328 or 1329.

Contributor:

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

Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥasan, active 1411, scribe.

Kīlānī, Yāsīn ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Ṭarābīshī, former owner.

Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد، 1201-1274.

محمد بن الحسين الحسن، active 1411, scribe.

Language:

Arabic

Subjects (All):

Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Almagest.

Ptolemy.

Astronomy--Early works to 1800.

Astronomy.

Almagest (Ptolemy).

Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic.

Manuscripts, 15th century.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Commentaries.

Tables (Data)

codices (bound manuscripts)

diagrams

Early works.

Penn Provenance:

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.

Physical Description:

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

Production:

[Iran?], A.H. 813 (1411)

Language Note:

Arabic.

Summary:

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.

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).

Local Notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 54-55 (LJS 392).

Publications about:

José Bellver, ‘MS Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania – Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, LJS 392 ’ (update: 27.08.2025), Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus. Manuscripts (http://ptolemaeus.badw.de/ms/714).

Cited as:

Niẓām al-Dīn al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr al-Taḥrīr (LJS 392). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Related Work:

Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274. Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī.

طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد، 1201-1274. تحرير المجسطي.

OCLC:

122490959

Online:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page