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Kayseri, Raşit Efendi Kütüphanesi, 1229

Single work: Arabic. Date:

undated.

Or.:

unknown; unknown scribe.

Prov.:

a very common seal of ownership by the Ottoman bibliophile, collector and poet Ḥājj Muṣṭafā Ṣidqī (d. 1183/1769) (1r; Mühür veritabanı, no. 30). A partially damaged ownership statement by ‘Muḥammad Mʿ…’ accompanied by an indecipherable seal (1r); two illegible seals (1r). Four large seals of endowment of Muḥammad Rāshid b. Jaʿfar Fawzī, i.e., Raşit Efendi, dated 1211/1796-7 (1v, 34v, 85v, 142v). Four modern library stamps (Ir, II^av).

Cod.: paper, II+142+II^a ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in red up to f. 20, extended by us; erroneous folio number ‘137’ in pencil on f. 142v; catchwords). A very elegant and clearly readable naskh. Almost fully dotted ductus, very frequent tanwīns, many hamzas and shaddas. Book headings in large black and bold thuluth; chapters introduced by bold, black and mostly overlined abjad numerals; propositions (ashkāl) numbered in the margins by red and overlined abjad numerals. Hindu-Arabic and abjad numerals red and overlined, abjad numerals occasionally only overlined. Diagrams with lines in red and letters in black, or vice versa; from chapter V.9 onwards, the spaces for diagrams were left empty, with the exception of the rosette on f. 72v. Tables with lines in red and headings in bold black or red thuluth. Manuscript ornamented: headpiece mainly in golden-greenish, red and blue colours with floral motifs (1v); main text surrounded by rule-borders and a frame in the same golden-greenish colour. Manuscript in very good condition; minor stains in the margins (e.g., 58r, 96r). Dimensions: 238×135 mm, written area: 172×78 mm; 29 lines per page. Dark-red slipcase with a flap, beautifully adorned with borders, a thick lobed frame and corner pieces comprised by small dots in gold. Covers and flap made of brown leather, decorated with a lobed frame, borders and corner pieces comprised of small dots in gold; covers ornamented with a large cylinder-shaped centre-piece in gold with pendants and coloured floral motifs; flap adorned by a mandorla in gold with a red-coloured rose motif in the centre. Doublures and inside of flap in dark brown leather with golden borders; doublures decorated with golden outlines of a centre-piece and inside-flap with golden outlines of a mandorla. Covers reinforced with red slips, apparently of leather, in the corners and on the spine and fore-edge flap; large black stains on the upper cover. Type II binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–142v). Blank: Iv (except for a note in pencil), IIr–IIv, I^ar–II^ar.

Bibl.: Ali Rıza Karabulut, Kayseri Râşid Efendi kütüphanesindeki Türkçe, Farsça, Arapça yazmalar kataloğu, Kayseri: Emek Matbaacılık, 1982, p. 657 (no. 2065). — Türkiye Yazma Eserler Kurumu Başkanlığı: https://portal.yek.gov.tr/works/detail/435293 (with scans).

1v–⁠142v	\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \142v\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على الآية ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه وهو حسبي وعليه توكّلي. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī li-l-Ṭūsī (title page, 1r, and colophon, 142v). — Additional Titles: Taḥrīr Majisṭī li-l-imām al-Ṭūsī fī ithbāt al-awḍāʿ al-falakiyya wa-l-ʾarḍiyya (flap of slipcase). — Index: author’s preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–17v; II, 17v–31r; III, 31r–40r; IV, 40r–51r; V, 51r–62v; VI, 62v–73r; VII, 73r–84v; VIII, 84v–97r; IX, 97r–113r; X, 113r–116v; XI, 116v–127r; XII, 127r–133v; XIII, 133v–142v. — No authorial colophon. Undated scribal colophon. Marginal corrections and extensive annotations mainly in the hand of the scribe, suddenly breaking off after chapter III.5. References to collations against a different exemplar by the Hindu-Arabic number ‘12’ (e.g., 2r–7v); some corrections and annotations in a small naskh hand, similar to the the scribe’s, sometimes within the main text (e.g., 7v, 11v, 19v); few marginal annotations in a nastaʿlīq hand (e.g., 1v, 4r).

1v–⁠142v

\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \142v\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على الآية ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه وهو حسبي وعليه توكّلي.

= Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18)

. — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī li-l-Ṭūsī (title page, 1r, and colophon, 142v). — Additional Titles: Taḥrīr Majisṭī li-l-imām al-Ṭūsī fī ithbāt al-awḍāʿ al-falakiyya wa-l-ʾarḍiyya (flap of slipcase). — Index: author’s preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–17v; II, 17v–31r; III, 31r–40r; IV, 40r–51r; V, 51r–62v; VI, 62v–73r; VII, 73r–84v; VIII, 84v–97r; IX, 97r–113r; X, 113r–116v; XI, 116v–127r; XII, 127r–133v; XIII, 133v–142v. — No authorial colophon. Undated scribal colophon. Marginal corrections and extensive annotations mainly in the hand of the scribe, suddenly breaking off after chapter III.5. References to collations against a different exemplar by the Hindu-Arabic number ‘12’ (e.g., 2r–7v); some corrections and annotations in a small naskh hand, similar to the the scribe’s, sometimes within the main text (e.g., 7v, 11v, 19v); few marginal annotations in a nastaʿlīq hand (e.g., 1v, 4r).