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Istanbul, Atıf Efendi Halk Kütüphanesi, 1713⁢⁢⁢⁢⁢

[Trimmed colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

finished on a Thursday in Rabīʿ al-awwal of 909/August-September 1503 (254r).

Or.:

unknown, unknown scribe.

Prov.:

a small oval seal ‘… Walī …’ (2r). An octogonal seal in Ottoman Turkish (2r). A Persian poem by Saʿdī (254r). A statement of endowment by Ḥājj Muṣṭafā ʿĀṭif, collector and founder of the library (d. 1155/1742), accompanied by a round seal of endowment dated 1154/1741-2 (1r, Mühür Veritabanı, no. 120; the same seal on ff. 2r, 78r, 174r, 215r, 254r). Old shelfmark: ‘1259’ (1r, head).

Cod.: paper, I+254+I^a ff. (foliated with corresponding Arabic-European and Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil in the upper left area of rectos; catchwords, often trimmed). A single small nastaʿlīq hand; partially dotted ductus. Book and section titles in red; book headings in enlarged bold black, section numbers in enlarged bold black abjad. Proposition numbers in red abjad in the margins. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals in red; geometrical points in the text not highlighted in any way. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or sometimes vice versa; five diagrams lacking geometrical points (77r, 78r, 217v), some reserved spaces. Tables with red lines, mostly unfinished, but the star catalogue is complete; a large rosette (130v–131r). Codex in acceptable condition; water stains in the top half of most pages, also affecting the text area and sometimes hindering the reading; stains in the top outer corners of the first and last eight pages, especially on ff. 253–254. Dimensions: 15.5×10 cm; 19 lines per page. Light-brown leather covers with mandorlas and pendants with floral motifs on front and back, fore-edge flap, and flap; yellow paper doublures. Type II binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–254r). Blank: Iv, I^ar.

Bibl.: Defter-i Kütüphane-i Atif Efendi, Darsaʿādat (Istanbul), 1893 (1310 H.){, p. 100}; KrauseMax Krause, ‘Stambuler Handschriften islamischer Mathematiker’, Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik, Astronomie und Physik, Abteilung B: Studien 3 (1936), pp. 437–532, p. 504; LAMTMª 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. 267 (no. 27). — Yazma Eserler Veritabanı: https://portal.yek.gov.tr/works/detail/375154.

1v–⁠254r	\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير وولّى كلّ هداية وأرجوا حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \254r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني اللّه تعـ〈ـالى〉 أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائة ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Majisṭī (Ir, head). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–27r; II, 27v–47v; III, 48r–64v; IV, 64v–87v; V, 87v–109v; VI, 109v–129r; VII, 129r–152r; VIII, 152r–174r; IX, 174r–204r; X, 204r–210v; XI, 210v–219r, 220v–226v, 219v–220r; XII, 220r, 227r–239r; XIII, 239v–254r. Text belonging after f. 226v copied on ff. 219v–220r, possibly from an exemplar with a misplaced leaf. — No authorial colophon; dated scribal colophon. Occasional marginal corrections. Some annotations on the first ten pages.

1v–⁠254r

\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير وولّى كلّ هداية وأرجوا حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \254r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني اللّه تعـ〈ـالى〉 أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائة ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.

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

. — Title: Majisṭī (Ir, head). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–27r; II, 27v–47v; III, 48r–64v; IV, 64v–87v; V, 87v–109v; VI, 109v–129r; VII, 129r–152r; VIII, 152r–174r; IX, 174r–204r; X, 204r–210v; XI, 210v–219r, 220v–226v, 219v–220r; XII, 220r, 227r–239r; XIII, 239v–254r. Text belonging after f. 226v copied on ff. 219v–220r, possibly from an exemplar with a misplaced leaf. — No authorial colophon; dated scribal colophon. Occasional marginal corrections. Some annotations on the first ten pages.