Istanbul, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi, Ahmet III 3505
seventh work finished on Tuesday, 17 Shaʿbān 661/26 June 1263 (colophon, 218v); first work finished on Thursday, 27 Shaʿbān 661/5 July 1263 (colophon, 61v). All other works by the same hand.
Or.:unknown, probably Turkey because of the first note of ownership; copied by Shāh Arman b. ʿAbdallāh (colophons, 61v and 218v).
Prov.:undated note of ownership by Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Mīkāʾīl (IIr), very probably identical with the scribe of MS Oxford, BL, Greaves 25, who is there called Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Mīkāʾīl al-Mutaṭabbib, known as Ibn Sībawayh al-Qūnawī, and who copied that manuscript in Ankara in 694/1294-5 (cf. Emily Savage-Smith, A New Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, vol. I: Medicine, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 136 and 147–148
Cod.: paper, II+219 ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil in the top left corner of rectos; two unfoliated inlaid sheets following ff. 142 and 166; quire numbers in the hand of the scribe partially trimmed (e.g., 19r, 45r); no catchwords). A single clear black naskh hand. Mostly dotted ductus; some tanwīns, occasional hamzas, other vowel marks and shaddas mostly limited to book and chapter titles in the Ptolemaic part. Chapter headings in bold red thuluth-like naskh. Tables and diagrams in the non-Ptolemaic works with red lines and black letters. Abjad numerals in the non-Ptolemaic works overlined. Codex in good condition; f. II heavily torn, ff. II and 1 severly damaged by the flap, f. 219 glued to the back doublure; occasional stains and smudges in the margins (e.g., 11r, 77r, 171v), water damage in the upper and lower margins of the first and last parts of the manuscript, margins reinforced with slips of paper (1v, 146v). Dimensions: c. 17×26 cm, written area c. 11½×18½ cm; 21 lines per page. Brownish leather cover with fore-edge and envelope flap, decorated with borders and with a frame, blind tooled central mandorla and corner-pieces all filled with interlace. Cover reinforced in the corners with red leather stripes. Type II binding.
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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. 459–460, 463–464, 479, 490, 511–512, and 525; Fehmi Edhem Karatay and O. Rešer, Topkapı Saraı Müzesi Kütüphanesi. Arapça yazmalar kataloğu, 4 vols, İstanbul: Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi, 1962–1969, vol. III, p. 751 (no. 7046, mentions only the treatise by al-Ṣūfī).
117v–133r
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\117v\ هذا كتاب تفسير ذات الحلق الذي ذكره ثيون الإسكندرانيّ. إنّ الحكماء عملوا الذي عملوا أمثالًا للفلك ليعرفوا بها حساب تداوير الفلك واختلاف الليل والنهار في أقاليم الأرض وقياس مسير طول الشمس والقمر والكواكب المتحيّرة وعرضها — \133r\ فينبغي لمن أراد أن يعمل لمعرفة الطول بتقدير المسير إذ يبدأ فبقدر ذلك حتّى يعلم كم مقدار الجزء هناك من مسير الأيّام والفراسخ والأميال ثمّ يعمل بعد ذلك فلا نخطّئ (كذا). = Theon of Alexandria, Tafsīr dhāt al-ḥalaq (unknown tr.) (C.5.1)
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