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Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Ayasofya 2749⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and front doublure.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

finished on a Wednesday, 16 Ramaḍān (140r, year missing).

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

seal of Sultan Bayezid II (r. 1481–1512) (1r, 140v; Mühür Veritabanı, no. 48). Seal of Sultan Mahmud I (r. 1730–1754) (1r; Mühür Veritabanı, no. 10); an undated statement of endowment by him, recorded by Aḥmad Shaykh Zāda, inspector of the endowments of the two Holy Sanctuaries, with the latter’s seal (1r; Mühür Veritabanı, no. 615).

Cod.: paper, I+140+I^a ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil at the top left of the text area on rectos; catchwords). A quick and sometimes sloppy taʿlīq hand; sparsely dotted ductus, rare vowel marks and hamzas, no shaddas . Book and section headings and qawlu-hu / aqūlu generally in red, but often omitted. Propositions in some parts numbered by red or black overlined abjad numerals in the margins. Abjad numerals and Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals mostly not highlighted. Blank spaces reserved for most diagrams and all tables; the included diagrams mostly with red lines and black geometrical points. Codex in good condition; some damage by insects throughout, especially in the margins and folds; water damage in the margins, especially on ff. I–15. Dimensions: 24.5×15.5 cm, written area: 18.5×11.5 cm; 37 lines per page. Front doublure in brown leather, decorated with a small golden centre-piece and a golden border, damaged. Currently or formerly type II binding (damage by the flap on f. Ir).

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–140r). Blank: Iv, 22v, 101v, I^ar, and presumably I^av.

Bibl.: Defter-i Kütüphane-i Ayasofya, Istanbul: Mahmut Bey Matbaası, 1887 (1304 H.), p. 165. — Yazma Eserler Veritabanı: https://portal.yek.gov.tr/works/detail/203093.

1v–⁠140r	\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر يمتري الزيادة فأحمده على ما أوّلانا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض — \140r\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظ فلحظ سعادة قوى (؟) ويجدّد له ساعة قائمة كرامة وبشرى ويرحم اللّه عبدًا قال آمينًا. = Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) . — Title: Sharḥ Taḥrīr Majisṭī fī ʿilm al-hayʾa (1r). — Additional Title: Sharḥ Majisṭī (1r, twice on Ir). — Index: preface, 1v–3r; Book I, 3r–10v, 15r–16v, 82r–97v (incomplete); II, 97v–99v, 21r–25v, 100r–106r; III, 106r–117v (end missing); IV, 26r–29r (only the last part); V, 29r–45r; VI, 45r–65r; VII, 65r–69r; VIII, 69r–71v; IX, 72r–80v; X, 80v–81v, 17r–20r; XI, 20r–v, 11r–14v, 118r–v; XII, 118v–128v; XIII, 128v–140r. — Dated authorial colophons after all books except I and XIII. Dated scribal colophon. Some marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ; few traces of indicators for rubrication (e.g., 34r–35r, 62v).

1v–⁠140r

\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر يمتري الزيادة فأحمده على ما أوّلانا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض — \140r\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظ فلحظ سعادة قوى (؟) ويجدّد له ساعة قائمة كرامة وبشرى ويرحم اللّه عبدًا قال آمينًا.

= Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38)

. — Title: Sharḥ Taḥrīr Majisṭī fī ʿilm al-hayʾa (1r). — Additional Title: Sharḥ Majisṭī (1r, twice on Ir). — Index: preface, 1v–3r; Book I, 3r–10v, 15r–16v, 82r–97v (incomplete); II, 97v–99v, 21r–25v, 100r–106r; III, 106r–117v (end missing); IV, 26r–29r (only the last part); V, 29r–45r; VI, 45r–65r; VII, 65r–69r; VIII, 69r–71v; IX, 72r–80v; X, 80v–81v, 17r–20r; XI, 20r–v, 11r–14v, 118r–v; XII, 118v–128v; XIII, 128v–140r. — Dated authorial colophons after all books except I and XIII. Dated scribal colophon. Some marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ; few traces of indicators for rubrication (e.g., 34r–35r, 62v).