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Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Fatih 5412

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Five works: Arabic and Persian. Date:

first work finished on 2 Shaʿbān 755/22 August 1354 (12r); third work finished in the afternoon (waqt al-ʿasr) of ‘14 or 15’ (sic) Muḥarram 755/8 or 9 February 1354 (68r); Ptolemaic work finished on Friday, 26 Muḥarram 755/21 February 1354 (101v); fifth work finished on 1 (ghurra) Jumādā l-thāniya 754/4 July 1353 (131r).

Or.:

Baghdad (68r, 101v, 131r); first and third work copied by Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿUmar al-Rūmī (12r, 68r).

Prov.:

illegible note and an illegible round seal (105r). The empty spaces between the five works were filled by hands different from the scribe’s with poems and other short items, attributed, among others, to Abū Hanīfa, ʿUmar al-Khayyām, Kamāl al-Dīn Maḥmūd, Jalāl al-Dīn ʿAḍud, ʿImād al-Dīn ʿAlī, Khāqānī, and Anwarī, and also including Persian quatrains attributed to the woman poets Mahsatī Ganjawī and ʿĀyisha Muqriya. Blank: Iv, IIv. Stamp of the Fatih Library (Ir); sticker with number 5469 (front pastedown); stamp of the Süleymaniye Library with the shelfmark ‘Fatih 5412’ and accession number ‘CO 22568’ in red next to an illegible round seal and the shelfmark written in large angular Hindu-Arabic numerals (IIr).

Cod.: paper (partially reddish), II+121+I ff. (foliated with large bold Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil in the upper left or right part of rectos; catchwords). Nastaʿlīq, possibly by different hands; mostly dotted ductus with hamzas and maddas but no shaddas; Arabic text in the Ptolemaic treatise occasionally vocalised. Chapter titles (including the headers of verba and commentaries in the Ptolemaic treatise) in red; red words or overlines used to mark sentence beginnings. Occasional diagrams (60r–62v), no tables. Codex in good condition; some damage by rodents at the top/bottom of most pages, some restorations, covers worn. Dimensions: not given; 23 lines per page. Cardbox covers with floral motifs in brown and green on a yellowish background; edges reinforced with leather strips. Persian safīna.

Cont.: arithmetic, Sufism, astrology, physiognomy. — Index: table of contents (Ir); an Arabic quote on the definition of ‘heart’ attributed to ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib, an Arabic quote attributed to al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, several anonymous quotes and poems, and two Persian quatrains, one attributed to Ibn Sīnā (all on f. 1r); 1] a lemmatic commentary on arithmetic (1v–12r, identified as Ḥāshiya ʿalā Sharḥ al-Shamsiyya li-l-Quṭb on f. Ir); 2] Abū l-Jannāb Aḥmad b. ʿUmar al-Khīwaqī al-Khwārizmī, known as Najm al-Dīn Kubrā, al-Uṣūl al-ʿashara (13r–46r); 3] Jamāl al-Dīn Sāʿid b. Muḥammad al-Turkistānī al-Sughdī, al-Risāla al-ʿAlāʾiyya fī l-masāʾil al-ḥisābiyya (46v–68r); 4] Ptolemaica (69v–101v); 5] anonymous, Mukhtaṣar fī ʿilm al-firāsa wa-l-siyāsa (105v–131r, in Persian, a work composed in Baghdad on Thursday, 26 Ramaḍān 752/17 November 1351).

Bibl.: Defter-i Fatih Kütüphanesi, Istanbul: Mahmud Bey Matbaası, 189?, p. 367. — Yazma Eserler Veritabanı: https://portal.yek.gov.tr/s/1MOzJjmo.

69v–⁠101v	\69v\ قال الصدر الإمام الهمام المولى المعظّم الصاحب الأعظم علّامة العالم مفخر بني آدم ملك الحكماء سلطان المحقّقين أفضل المتأخّرين نصير الحقّ والملّة والدين برهان الإسلام والمسلمين — \101v\ اينست تمامى كلمات كتاب ثمرة و تفسير آن و در آخر كتاب باين عبارت آورده‌اند تمّ كتاب الثمرة المسمّى بالروميّة انطرومطا ومعناه المائة الكلمة واللّه أعلم بالصواب وإليه المرجع والمآب. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Tafsīr Kitāb al-Thamara (Arabic–Persian version) (C.3.4) , version with 102 verba. — Title: Sharḥ wa-tarjamat Kitāb Thamarat Baṭlamyūs li-Naṣīr al-Ṭūsī (Ir). — Index: preface, 69v; Pseudo-Ptolemy’s introduction, 69v; commentary on the introduction, 69v–70r; 101 verba intertwined with the commentary (70r–101v). Verbum 100 (here: 102) was not numbered as an independent verbum, so that the total number of verba is seemingly 101. The commentary sections are headed tarjama. — Scribal colophon, followed by a mention of the date of completion of the work as 20 Rajab 663/8 May 1265 in Maragha (101v); this date is different from the one given in MSS Florence, BML, Or. 446 and Paris, BnF, ar. 4731. Marginal corrections, often indicated with ṣḥ. Several glosses (86r, 87v, 95r [trimmed]); a trimmed note by a different hand (74v).

69v–⁠101v

\69v\ قال الصدر الإمام الهمام المولى المعظّم الصاحب الأعظم علّامة العالم مفخر بني آدم ملك الحكماء سلطان المحقّقين أفضل المتأخّرين نصير الحقّ والملّة والدين برهان الإسلام والمسلمين — \101v\ اينست تمامى كلمات كتاب ثمرة و تفسير آن و در آخر كتاب باين عبارت آورده‌اند تمّ كتاب الثمرة المسمّى بالروميّة انطرومطا ومعناه المائة الكلمة واللّه أعلم بالصواب وإليه المرجع والمآب.

= Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Tafsīr Kitāb al-Thamara (Arabic–Persian version) (C.3.4)

, version with 102 verba. — Title: Sharḥ wa-tarjamat Kitāb Thamarat Baṭlamyūs li-Naṣīr al-Ṭūsī (Ir). — Index: preface, 69v; Pseudo-Ptolemy’s introduction, 69v; commentary on the introduction, 69v–70r; 101 verba intertwined with the commentary (70r–101v). Verbum 100 (here: 102) was not numbered as an independent verbum, so that the total number of verba is seemingly 101. The commentary sections are headed tarjama. — Scribal colophon, followed by a mention of the date of completion of the work as 20 Rajab 663/8 May 1265 in Maragha (101v); this date is different from the one given in MSS Florence, BML, Or. 446 and Paris, BnF, ar. 4731. Marginal corrections, often indicated with ṣḥ. Several glosses (86r, 87v, 95r [trimmed]); a trimmed note by a different hand (74v).