Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Fatih 3439
[Colour scans of the body text, covers and binding.]
dates in Dhū l-ḥijja 586 and 587/1191 (65v, 160v, 177r, 182r, 205r, 217r).
Or.:Mosul; copied by Ibrāhīm b. al-Ḥusayn al-Rūyānī al-Bakrī (65v, 177r, 182r, 205r, 217r).
Prov.:statement in Ottoman Turkish (Ir); a statement of endowment in favour of Çelebī Zāde Muḥammad (1v, 2r); ownership statement by Muḥammad b. Muṣṭafā (2r); oval seal with tughra, probably of the Ottoman sultan Mehmet II (2v, 236v); talismanic invocation yā kabīkaj (Ir); old shelfmark (?): K. 3541 (2r).
Cod.:
paper, IV+236+IIIa ff. (foliated with both Arabic-European and Hindu-Arabic numerals; ff. 66-236 numbered additionally with Hindu-Arabic numerals at the middle top of recto pages from 1 to 181 with several irregularities; no catchwords). A single dense naskh hand in black; dotted ductus with frequent shaddas and occasional vocalization, no hamzas. Diagrams with labels in black; geometrical points in the main text overlined in black; tables with double frames in black. Beginning of treatises indicated by basmalas overlined in red; numerous textual dividers in the main text as well as catch titles of treatises and sections in the margins in red. Large moisture stains in the first part of the manuscript (ff. 2r–65v), occasional severe corrosion of the paper caused by the ink (e.g., ff. 66-78); otherwise the codex is in good condition and the reading only affected on f. 53. Dimensions: 19×13 cm (Krause, p. 458); 32-40 lines per page. Covers decorated with battal ebru in red, greenish white, and black; doublures with battal ebru in blue, pink, white, and black. Type II binding.
Cont.:
mathematics, geometry, astronomy, astrology. —
Bibl.:
Defter-i Fatih Kütüphanesi, Istanbul: Mahmut Bey Matbaası, 189?, p. 197; 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. 445, 458, 462, 473-479, 482, 515, 517, 521-522, and 526; ISMI online database: https://ismi.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/codex/158353.
142v–150v |
\142v\ الشكّ الأوّل وهو قول بطلميوس في الفصل الثالث الذي ترجمته في أنّ السماء كرية وحركتها أيضّا كرية 〈…〉 — \150v\ هذا القول غاية ما يمكن أن يعتذر به لبطلميوس في استعماله التقريب في جزئيّات اخبلاف منظر القمر دون التحقيق وذلك ما أردنا أن نبيّن. تمّت الشكوك في المجسطي وحلّها بتمامها وكمالها. = Ibn al-Haytham, Ḥall shukūk fī kitāb al-Majisṭī yashukku fī-hā baʿḍ ahl al-ʿilm (C.1.1031). — |
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