Istanbul, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi, Ahmet III 3455
from Rabīʿ al-awwal 663/December 1265-January 1266 up to to 666/1268 (Krause).
Or.:Marāgha and Jazīn (Savadi); most parts copied by Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, many of them directly from autographs.
Prov.:undated seal of ownership of Sultan Bayezid II (r. 1481–1512) (1r, 87v). Big round waqf seal of Sultan Ahmet III (r. 1703–1730) (1r); unidentified signature (1r).
Cod.: paper, I+87+Ia ff. (modern foliation with Arabic-European numerals, vertically with respect to the textbody at the bottom right of rectos, with one folio skipped between 44 and 45; another irregular foliation in abjad notation at the bottom left of rectos; no catchwords). The abjad foliation, the early table of contents on f. 1r, and the several one-page fragments on the reverse of the first or last folios of longer treatises suggest that the parts of this manuscript were taken from an originally significantly larger codex. One main hand in black naskh; ff. 57v–63r brownish and rather pale. Partially dotted ductus, no hamzas or shaddas. Folios 41v–43v and 72r–77r entirely in black; in all other parts: numbers in the main text written with Hindu-Arabic numerals in red; some titles, chapter headings and colophons in red, others in black; glossary lemmata (2r–v) and geometrical points in the first work in red. Numerous diagrams with black lines and red letters. Numerous tables, some of them in red (31r–v, 33r, 34v, 38r, 68v, 70r–71r), others in black (39v), some incomplete. Minor excerpts in different hands (e.g., 44r, 71v). Codex in very good condition; some folios pasted, others cut off (e.g., 33r); the readability of the main text is never hindered. Dimensions: 260×125 mm; around 50 lines per page. Red cover with minor damage; titles of the first treatises on the spine. Persian safīna; type II binding.
Cont.: mathematics, geometry, astronomy, poetry. —
Bibl.: KrauseMax Krause, ‘Stambuler Handschriften islamischer Mathematiker’, Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik, Astronomie und Physik, Abteilung B: Studien 3 (1936), pp. 437–532, pp. 484, 486, 496–497, and 516–517; Fehmi Edhem Karatay and O. Rešer, Topkapı Saraı Müzesi Kütüphanesi. Arapça yazmalar kataloğu, 4 vols, İstanbul: Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi, 1962–1969, vol. IV, p. 409 (no. 8752); Paul Kunitzsch, Ibn aṣ-Ṣalāḥ. Zur Kritik der Koordinatenüberlieferung im Sternkatalog des Almagest. Arabischer Text nebst deutscher Übersetzung, Einleitung und Anhang, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1975, pp. 27–29; Fateme Savadi, The Historical and Cosmographical Context of Hayʾat al-arḍ with a Focus on Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī’s Nihāyat al-Idrāk, PhD dissertation, McGill University, 2018, p. 28.
30r
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\30r\ || في القسم الأوجي أو الحضضي من الخارج الذين يحدّهما المجازان الأوسطان فلا يصحّح ذلك — ثمّ اتّبعها بمقالة ذكر فيها بعض مقاصد المقالة الثالثة عشر من المجسطي وهي المقالة التاسعة من كتابه وبتمامها تمّ الكتاب. فهذا ما علّقته من التوهّمات التي ذكرها ابن الأفلح المغربيّ في كتابه المسمّى بالمجسطي ونسبها إلى بطلميوس. والمرجو من الله سبحنه وتعالى أن يوفق لأستاذه أنّه خير موفق ومعين. وفرغ من تعليقه أحوج خلق الله إليه محمود بن مسعود بن المصلح المتطبّب الشيرازي في العشر الأوسط من ربيع الأول سنة ثلاث وستّين ستّمائة. تمّ الكتاب وربّنا محمود. = Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Fawāʾid min al-kitāb al-mawsūm bi-l-Majisṭī li-Ibn Aflaḥ al-Maghribī (C.1.23)
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82r
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\82r\ = Aḥmad ibn al-Sarī Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ, al-Maʿnā dhakara-hu Baṭlamyūs fī l-bāb al-thānī min al-maqāla al-thāniya ʿashar (C.1.16)
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82v–86v, 76r–v
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\82v\ = Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Qawl fī Sabab al-khaṭāʾ wa-l-taṣḥīf li-Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ (C.1.24)
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