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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 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, Dār al-Saʿādat (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\ 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\ 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.