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Kayseri, Raşit Efendi Kütüphanesi, 1230

Collection of two works: Arabic. Date:

528/1133-4 (colophon, 96r).

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 Efendi 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 Efendi 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, I^av).

Cod.: paper, I+96+I^a 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 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. — Index: a short excerpt of a passage on materia medica, apparently from one of Ibn al-Tilmīdh’s (?) works (inside front cover); title page (1r); Abū l-Qāsim ʿAlī b. Ismāʿīl al-Nīsābūrī, Taḥrīr 〈al-Uṣūl li-〉Uqlīdis (1v–72v); Ptolemaica (73r–96r); two geometrical propositions and the beginning of a third (96v, in a different hand). Blank: Iv, I^ar.

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). — Türkiye Yazma Eserler Kurumu: https://portal.yek.gov.tr/works/detail/435464.

73r–⁠96v	\73v\ [formulae] وبعد فإنّ كتاب المجسطي لبطلميوس الذي هو عمدة النوع التعليميّ وقانون تحقيق الأرصاد لما كان متعلّق العبارة مع الإسهاب رأيت أن اختصره بنقل ألفاظه إلى ما يستعمله المحدّثون — \96r\ في رسم الجداول. في حساب العروض من (؟) الجدول. في ظهور الخمسة المتحيّرة واختفائها. القول فيها كما تقدّم في الكواكب الثابتة. = al-Khāzimī, Ikhtiṣār al-Majisṭī (C.1.13) . — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī al-mukhtaṣar min Kitāb al-Majisṭī li-Baṭlamyūs (73r). — Index: title page, 73r; author’s preface, 73v–75r; Book I, 75r–78r; II, 78r–80v; III, 80v–82v; IV, 82v–84r; V, 84r–87r; VI, 87r; VII, 87v; VIII, 87v–88r; IX, 88r–90v; X, 90v–92r; XI, 92r; XII, 92r–94r; XIII, 94r–96r. — Dated scribal colophon (96r). Minor marginal corrections mostly marked by siglum ṣḥ. Few marginal annotations in at least three different hands, one mentioning a Kitāb al-Ikmāl or Taḥrīr Kitāb al-Istikmāl fī l-Riyāḍ (93r). The same marginal annotations are also present in MS Oxford, Bodleian, Hunt. 547, but not in the other two witnesses of this work that we have seen.

73r–⁠96v

\73v\ [formulae] وبعد فإنّ كتاب المجسطي لبطلميوس الذي هو عمدة النوع التعليميّ وقانون تحقيق الأرصاد لما كان متعلّق العبارة مع الإسهاب رأيت أن اختصره بنقل ألفاظه إلى ما يستعمله المحدّثون — \96r\ في رسم الجداول. في حساب العروض من (؟) الجدول. في ظهور الخمسة المتحيّرة واختفائها. القول فيها كما تقدّم في الكواكب الثابتة.

= al-Khāzimī, Ikhtiṣār al-Majisṭī (C.1.13)

. — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī al-mukhtaṣar min Kitāb al-Majisṭī li-Baṭlamyūs (73r). — Index: title page, 73r; author’s preface, 73v–75r; Book I, 75r–78r; II, 78r–80v; III, 80v–82v; IV, 82v–84r; V, 84r–87r; VI, 87r; VII, 87v; VIII, 87v–88r; IX, 88r–90v; X, 90v–92r; XI, 92r; XII, 92r–94r; XIII, 94r–96r. — Dated scribal colophon (96r). Minor marginal corrections mostly marked by siglum ṣḥ. Few marginal annotations in at least three different hands, one mentioning a Kitāb al-Ikmāl or Taḥrīr Kitāb al-Istikmāl fī l-Riyāḍ (93r). The same marginal annotations are also present in MS Oxford, Bodleian, Hunt. 547, but not in the other two witnesses of this work that we have seen.