Kayseri, Raşit Efendi Kütüphanesi, 1230
528/1133-4 (colophon, 96r, and librarian’s note, Ir).
Or.:unknown; copied by ʿAbd al-Jalīl b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. Muḥammad (colophons on ff. 72v and 96r and note on f. 73r); the non-Ptolemaic part was collated against an autograph (colophon, 72v).
Prov.:statement of endowment in favour of the late teacher of the Parwana Bīk Madrasa, Maḥmūd Ifindī b. ʿAlī Bīk b. Maḥmūd (d. 1130/1718), received by the khaṭīb of the ʿAlī Jāwush Mosque of Kayseri, Muḥammad b. Ḥājj Khiḍr b. ʿUmar, and dated 1139/1726-7 (1r); in 1129/1716 Maḥmūd Ifindī had donated 100 books of his collection to his madrasa at the Grand Bazaar of Kayseri and appointed his former student Muḥammad b. Ḥājj as a trustee of his endowment, which was finally moved to its current location in 1333/1917 (see Mehmet Çayırdağ, Kayseri tarihi araştırmaları, Kayseri: Kayseri Büyükşehir Belediyesi, 2001, p. 323). A hexagonal seal, illegible on the scans provided, which accompanies the statement of endowment (1r); four contemporary library stamps (Ir, Iav).
Cod.: paper, I+96+Ia ff. (foliated in pencil with Hindu-Arabic numerals on every tenth recto and on f. 12; f. 96 incorrectly numbered ‘95’, apparently by a different hand in pencil; no catchwords). A very clear naskh hand. Nearly fully dotted ductus, very frequent vowel marks, recurrent shaddas but no hamzas. Headings of books in bold red thuluth. Abjad numerals in black and overlined. Diagram lines in red with letters in black. Codex in good condition; binding partially reinforced with pasted paper slips, damage by insects restored with pieces of paper (ff. 1r, 32–41); water damage in the outer margins throughout the codex and additionally on the upper half of the folios of the second treatise, indicating that the two parts were bound together at a later point in time; occasional ink stains affecting the readability (e.g., 76v, 83v); cover damaged. Dimensions: 272×165 mm; written area: 225×110 mm; 26 lines per page. Cover probably made of blackish coloured leather, decorated with borders, blind-tooled mandorlas on the front and back covers and a lobed circular motif on the flap. Type II binding.
Cont.: mathematics, astronomy. —
Bibl.: GAS VFuat Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, Vol. V: Mathematik bis ca. 430 H., Leiden: Brill, 1974, p. 386; Ali Rıza Karabulut, Kayseri Râşid Efendi kütüphanesindeki Türkçe, Farsça, Arapça yazmalar kataloğu, Kayseri: Emek Matbaacılık, 1982, pp. 475 and 657 (nos 1384, 1386 and 2065); Ramazan Şeşen, Mukhtārāt min al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʿarabiyya al-nādira fī maktabāt Turkiyā, Istanbul: İslām Tarih, Sanat ve Kültürünü Araştırma Vakfı (İSAR), 1997, p. 380 (no. 705).
73r–96v
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\73v\ = al-Khāzimī, Ikhtiṣār al-Majisṭī (C.1.13)
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