Istanbul, Beyazıt Devlet Kütüphanesi, Veliyüddin 2302
the night of Saturday, 25 Ramaḍān 732/20 June 1332 (95v).
Or.:Tabriz; copied by Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Qummī, later al-Astarābādī, who quotes the authorial colophon (95v).
Prov.:statement of purchase by al-Ḥājj Muṣṭafā Dhakī b. Aḥmad al-Istānbūlī in Qayṣariyya (Kayseri) in 1121/1709-10 or 1131/1718-19 (Ir). Three notes on Ptolemy and his works (1r). Statement of ownership by Shaykh al-Islām Walī al-Dīn (Veliyüddin) Efendi (d. 1182/1768), accompanied by his seal, repeated on the last page (Ir, 96v); large oval seal of endowment by Walī l-Dīn Efendi, dated 1175/1761-2 (IIIr, 1r, 49r, 96v; Mühür Veritabanı, no. 534).
Cod.: paper, IX+96+IIa ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil, repeating ‘3’; ff. III–IV numbered ‘1’–‘2’ by the same hand; foliation with Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in pen at the top of versos; flyleaves of a much later date, several inserted slips of paper; no catchwords). Main hand in black naskh; partially dotted ductus. Book and section titles in red; book headings in bold black, section numbers in bold black abjad. Proposition numbers in red abjad in the margins. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals in red and overlined; geometrical points in the text overlined in black. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or vice versa. Neat tables with red lines, some unfinished; incomplete rosette (46v). F. 1r replaced by a nastaʿlīq hand; treatise on ff. IIIv–IVv and table of contents on ff. VIIv–IXr in two more nastaʿlīq hands. Codex in good condition; handling and some other stains, especially on the first and last folios of the older part of the manuscript; f. 2 damaged. Dimensions: 23.5×16 cm; written area: 17.5×11 cm; 29 lines per page. Covers with black, yellow and red marbled paper; spine and fore-edge flap in black leather. Type II binding.
Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Sukhan dar Taṣḥīḥ-i awsāṭ-i qamar az raṣad-i khusūfāt (IIIv–IVv, in Persian, with a diagram on an inserted slip, a small table, calculations for the year 781/1379-80, and extensive glosses); table of contents in a later hand (VIIv–IXr); Ptolemaica (1v–95v); Ptolemaica (96r–v). Blank: Iv–IIv, Vr–VIIr, Iav–IIav.
Bibl.: Defter-i Kütüphane-i Veliyüddin, Istanbul: Mahmut Bey Matbaası, 1886 (1304 H.), p. 131; 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. 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. 268 (no. 30). —
1v–95v
|
\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير وولىّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \95v\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته ولأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18)
. — |
---|---|
96r–v
|
\96r\ = Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt (C.1.18b)
. — |