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Istanbul, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi, Ahmet III 3473⁢⁢⁢

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Four parts of a single work: Arabic. Date:

the Ptolemaic part was finished in the middle ten days (al-ʿashar al-thānī) of Dhū l-ḥijja 628/mid October 1231 (109r); the other three parts are undated but are by the same scribe.

Or.:

unknown; copied by Kāmil b. Abī Yazīd b. Muḍar al-Jīlī (109r).

Prov.:

almond-shaped seal of Sultan Bayezid II (r. 1481–1512) (1r). Large round seal of endowment from Sultan Ahmet III (r. 1703–1730) with somewhat below it an unidentified calligraphic signature. Rectangular library stamp with the current shelfmark (1r). Alternative shelfmarks: ‘handasa 25’ and ‘Y 140’ (Ir).

Cod.: paper, II+140+II^a ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil, with two unnumbered empty folios after the first and second parts; occasional catchwords). A single brown naskh hand; partially dotted ductus. Book and section titles in red. Geometrical points in the text and proposition numbers in the margins of the Ptolemaic work overlined in brown. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points, sometimes partially in the margins; improved diagram on whiter paper glued over the diagram on f. 55r; some additional diagrams in the margins as part of glosses (e.g., 6v–7r). Several tables. Codex in good condition; some ink corrosion, especially of letters in the margins and in diagrams; some stains. Dimensions: 28.5×22.0 cm, written area: 16.0 cm wide; 31 lines per page. Simple red leather covers with paper overlay. Type II binding.

Cont.: geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, music. — Index: Ibn Sīnā, Kitāb al-Shifāʾ, al-Riyāḍiyyāt, including: al-handasa (1v–55r); Ptolemaica (55^terv–109r); al-ārithmāṭīqī (110v–121v); al-mūsīqā (122r–140r). Blank: 55v–55^terr, 109v–110r, 140v, I^a–II^a.

Bibl.: Fehmi Edhem Karatay and O. Rešer, Topkapı Saraı Müzesi Kütüphanesi. Arapça yazmalar kataloğu, 4 vols, İstanbul: Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi, 1962–1969, vol. III, pp. 730–731 (no. 6991).

55^terv–⁠109r	\55^terv\ [title] ~~قال و~~قد حان لنا أن نورد جوامع كتاب بطليموس الكبير المعمول فى المجسطي وعلم الهيئة — \109r\ لكنّا من وراء أن يتحقّق ذلك برصد نحاوله نرجوا أن نبلغ فى استقصائه ما لم يبلغ من قبلنا بعون الله وحسن توفيقه. تمّ اختصار المجسطي ممّا اختصره السيخ الرئيس أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله بن سينا رحمه الله عليه. = Ibn Sīnā, Talkhīṣ al-Majisṭī (C.1.8) , with the extra chapter. — Title: al-Maqāla ul-ūlā min Talkhīṣ kitāb Baṭlīmūs fī l-taʿālīm wa-huwa Kitāb al-Majisṭī mimmā ḥarrara al-shaykh al-raʾīs Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbdallāh Ibn Sīnā (55^terv). — Alternative title: Ikhtiṣār al-Majisṭī (explicit, 109r). — Index: preface, 55^terv; Book I, 55^terv–60v; II, 60v–65v; III, 65v–71r; IV, 71r–76v; V: 76v–84r; VI, 84r–89v; VII, 89v–90r; VIII, 90r–91v; IX/X/XI, 91v–100r; XII, 100r–103r; XIII, 103r–107v; extra chapter, 108r–109r. — Dated scribal colophon. Frequent marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe; further corrections by a different hand in black ink, both in the margins and directly in the text. Corrections of lines in the diagrams in red; corrected diagram in the margin of f. 91r.

55^terv–⁠109r

\55^terv\ [title] ~~قال و~~قد حان لنا أن نورد جوامع كتاب بطليموس الكبير المعمول فى المجسطي وعلم الهيئة — \109r\ لكنّا من وراء أن يتحقّق ذلك برصد نحاوله نرجوا أن نبلغ فى استقصائه ما لم يبلغ من قبلنا بعون الله وحسن توفيقه. تمّ اختصار المجسطي ممّا اختصره السيخ الرئيس أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله بن سينا رحمه الله عليه.

= Ibn Sīnā, Talkhīṣ al-Majisṭī (C.1.8)

, with the extra chapter. — Title: al-Maqāla ul-ūlā min Talkhīṣ kitāb Baṭlīmūs fī l-taʿālīm wa-huwa Kitāb al-Majisṭī mimmā ḥarrara al-shaykh al-raʾīs Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbdallāh Ibn Sīnā (55^terv). — Alternative title: Ikhtiṣār al-Majisṭī (explicit, 109r). — Index: preface, 55^terv; Book I, 55^terv–60v; II, 60v–65v; III, 65v–71r; IV, 71r–76v; V: 76v–84r; VI, 84r–89v; VII, 89v–90r; VIII, 90r–91v; IX/X/XI, 91v–100r; XII, 100r–103r; XIII, 103r–107v; extra chapter, 108r–109r. — Dated scribal colophon. Frequent marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe; further corrections by a different hand in black ink, both in the margins and directly in the text. Corrections of lines in the diagrams in red; corrected diagram in the margin of f. 91r.