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Istanbul, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi, Ahmet III 3455

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Collection of around 10 main works plus some minor excerpts: Arabic, Persian. Date:

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 Bāyazīd II (r. 1481–1512) (1r, 87v). Big round waqf seal of Sultan Aḥmet III (r. 1703–1730) (1r); unidentified signature (1r).

Cod.: paper, I+87+I^a 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. — Index: part of an early table of contents with folio numbers in abjad notation (1r); al-Iṣfahānī, Talkhīṣ al-makhrūṭāt (1v–29v); Ptolemaica (30r); Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Jawāmiʿ al-hisāb bi-l-takht wa-l-turāb (30v–40v); excerpts from Abū l-Fatḥ Ṣāliḥ b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Baghdādī, al-Majisṭī (41v–43v, with chronological tables); unidentified astronomical fragment (44r); anonymous, Faṣl fī Kayfiyyat raṣad al-shams (44v, incomplete; cf. Oxford, Bodleian, Thurston 3, ff. 107r–108r); Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Miʿyār al-ashʿār (44^bisv–55v); unidentified astronomical fragment (56r); Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Zubdat al-hayʾa (57v–67v, in Persian); unidentified astronomical work in Persian (68r–v); unidentified astronomical fragment (69r); tables for the Chinese-Uighur calendar with explanations in Persian (70r–71r); philosophical text by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī in reply to an unidentified ruler (71v–72r); astronomical fragments ascribed to Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (72r–74v); al-Abharī, Risāla fī Birkār al-qutūʿ (74v–75v, 77r); Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ḥusayn b. al-Ḥasan al-Samarqandī, Risāla fī Ṭarīq al-masāʾil al-ʿadadiyya (77v–81r); unidentified treatise ascribed to Thābit b. Qurra (81r–v); another astronomical fragment (81v); anonymous, al-Qawl al-thānī fī takhṭīṭ al-madārāt (81v–82r); Ptolemaica (82r); Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ, two short geometrical treatises entitled Kayfa naʿmalu fī murabbaʿ maʿlūm and Muqaddima li-ʿamal murabbaʿ fī dākhil muthallath musāwī l-aḍlāʿ maʿlūm (82r–v); Ptolemaica (82v–86v, 76r–v); anonymous additions (fawāʾid) (87r–v). Blank: 41r, 44^bisr, 56v, 57r, 69v.

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. Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative: https://ismi.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/codex/202479.

30r	\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) . — Title: none. — Authorial colophon by Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, dated Rabīʿ al-awwal 663/December 1264-January 1265, with the further information that he copied it from his own exemplar. This fragment contains only the last page of the treatise.
82r	\82r\ [title] كلّ عددين مسطّحين متشابهين معلومين أحدهما مجهول الأضلاع والآخر معلومها فإذا ضربنا جذر الخارج من قسمته مجهول الأضلاع على الآخر — \82r\ فإذا أخذنا جذره وهو ط كان معلومًا وإذا ضربنا المعلوم في ه ز المعلومين خرج ج د معلومين وهذا مراد. = 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) . — Title: li-Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Sarī hādhā l-maʿnā dhakara-hu Baṭlamyūs fī l-bāb al-thānī min al-maqāla al-thāniya ʿashara fī maʿrifat miqdār rujūʿ Zuḥal wa-fī l-abwāb al-arbaʿa allatī baʿda-hu li-rujūʿ bāqī l-kawākib (82r). — No authorial or scribal colophon; minor marginal additions.
82v–⁠86v, 76r–⁠v	\82v\ [title] قال لمّا تأمّلت الجداول المثبت فيها مواضع الثوابت في الطول والعرض والجهة ومن أيّ قدر وصورة هي رأيت فيها خللًا ظاهرًا — \86v\ وهو الثاني عشر من المشترك ع ج الذي على طرف الذنب في إصلاح ثابت ونقل إسحق كو في ط وفيه خطأ وتصحيف من السدس إلى الستّة وهو في السريانيّ ونقل الحسن ك ي في ط وهو الصحيح. = Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Qawl fī Sabab al-khaṭāʾ wa-l-taṣḥīf li-Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ (C.1.24) . — Title: Qawl li-Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Sarī fī Sabab al-khaṭāʾ wa-l-taṣḥīf al-ʿāriḍīn fī jadāwil al-maqālatayn al-sābiʿa wa-l-thāmina min kitāb al-Majisṭī wa-taṣḥīḥ mā amkana taṣḥīḥu-hu min dhālika (82v). — Index: One folio is misplaced within the codex; the correct order is as follows: 82v, 76v, 76r, 83r–86v. — Authorial colophon by Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, indicating that this is his abbreviated version of the original work by Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ. No scribal colophon. Minor marginal additions, some of them indicating the version of the Almagest to which Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ’s comments refer (either ‘in the Greek’ fī l-yunānī, ‘al-Ḥajjāj’, or ‘Isḥāq’).