Istanbul, Nuruosmaniye Kütüphanesi, 2941
late Shaʿbān 684/late October 1285 (1r, 108r).
Or.:unknown, probably Sivas, Anatolia; copied by Quṭb al-Dīn Maḥmūd b. Masʿūd al-Shīrāzī (d. 710/1311) (1r); Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī was in Sivas in Jumādā l-ūlā 684/July-August 1285 (see Kaveh Niazi, Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī and the Configuration of the Heavens. A Comparison of Texts and Models, Dordrecht: Springer, 2014, p. 75).
Prov.:a statement of ownership of which only the year 738/1337-8 can be read (1r). A statement of ownership by an unknown al-Māridānī al-Zardakāsh dated 807 (?)/1405 (1r). Two statements of ownership by Abū Bakr b. Yaḥyā b. Yūsuf b. Qurqumās al-Ḥamzāway dated 962/1555 (1r, 110v) and his seal (110v). A statement of ownership by al-muwaqqit al-Rūmī al-Ḥanafī, who can be identified as Muṣtafā b. ʿAlī al-Qusṭanṭīnī al-Rūmī al-Ḥanafī (d. 979/1571), astronomer at the Yavuz Selim Mosque in Istanbul (on him, see ʿUmar Riḍā Kaḥḥāla, Muʿjam al-muʾallifīn. Tarājīm muṣannifī al-kutub al-ʿarabiyya, 4 vols, Beirut: Muʾassasat al-Risāla, 1993, vol. III, p. 884 (no. 17078) (1r). A statement of ownership by the unknown Abū l-ʿIzz b. ʿAlī al-Ḥanbalī (1r). A statement of ownership and seal by Fayḍ Allāh b. Ḥājjī Ismāʿīl Ibnāṭī (?) (Iav). Unclear statement of ownership and seal (110v); unclear seal (2r). At least one large seal after the opening statement of the main work glued over with slips of paper (1v). An undated endowment statement in favour of Sultan Osman III (r. 1754–1757), under whose patronage the Nuruosmaniye mosque was completed, received by al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm Ḥanīf, inspector of endowments in the two Holy Shrines, and two seals, one from the Nuruosmaniye endowment, and the second by al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm Ḥanīf (2r).
Cod.: paper, 111+Ia ff. (foliated in pencil above the body text on every verso, skipping the small slip of paper after f. 90 but including the leaf of smaller size after f. 78 as f. 79; a previous foliation of ff. 91–110 by the same hand, including the slip after f. 90 but crossed out; an earlier foliation in pen at the top left of versos skipping both smaller leaves and hence ending at ‘109’; no catchwords). A single clear naskh hand in brown; almost fully dotted ductus, occasional vowels, hamzas and shaddas. Book and chapter titles in a slightly bigger red naskh, and at times thuluth, hand; a second cursive naskh hand in tables. Abjad notation in black or brown with overlines in red or in red with overlines in black. Substantial diagrams mostly in red with geometrical points in black, and at times in black with points in red; tables in red, black and brown; blank spaces for a table on f. 52v and for a diagram on f. 100r. Codex in very good condition; major restorations of the first leaf, substantial hand oils on outer corners, hardly any moisture stains. Dimensions: 247×175 mm, written area: 189×95 mm; 35 lines per page. Covers in brown leather with a blind-stamped geometric square-shaped ornament, frame and corner pieces. Type III binding, Persian safīna.
Cont.: astronomy. —
Bibl.: Nuruosmaniye Kütüphanesinde mahfuz kütüb-ü mevcudenin defteri, Istanbul: Mahmud Beğ Matbaası, 1886 (1303 H.), p. 168; 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. 497 and 504; ParraMª José Parra, ‘A List of Arabic Manuscripts of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī’, Suhayl 16–17 (2018–2019), pp. 251–322, p. 271.
1r–107r
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\1v\ قال الشيخ الإمام العالم العلامة أفضل المتأخرين سلطان المحققين أستاذ البشر … … … أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية. وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \106v\ فلنختم الكتاب أقول: وإذ وفقني الله تعالى أيضا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته، ولأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على الآية ومصليا على جميع أوليائه، خصوصا على خاتم أنبيائه، والبررة من آله وأحبائه حامدا الله ومصليا على رسوله وآله الطاهرين. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18)
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107v–108v
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\107v\ نريد أن نثبت اختلافات وقوع الخطوط في الأشكال التي تعرف منها أوضاع مراكز أفلاك عطارد في مسيراتها — \107v\ ويكون الأشكال بحسب مسير المركز بالحركة الوسطى مبتدئا من الأوج إلى التوالي هكذا. = 〈Risāla fī Ikhtilāfāt wuqūʿ al-khuṭūṭ fī l-ashkāl〉 (C.1.18a)
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108v–110r
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\108v\ = Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt (C.1.18b)
. — Title: Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt allatī yaḥduthu bi-sabab al-khurūj ʿan al-markaz. — Minor marginal corrections; no glosses. |
110r–110v
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\110r\ = Fī Shakl al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (C.1.18c)
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