Istanbul, Köprülü Kütüphanesi, Fazıl Ahmed Paşa 932
undated.
Or.:unknown; unknown scribe; possibly Muḥammad b. Abī al-Fatḥ al-Ṣūfī because of the similarity of his hand with the scribe’s (cf. below).
Prov.:note by the Cairene astronomer Muḥammad b. Abī l-Fatḥ al-Ṣūfī dated 908/1502-3 (67r; on him, see the BEAThomas Hockey (ed.), The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, 2 vols, Dordrecht: Springer, 2007 article ‘Ibn Abī al‐Fatḥ al‐Ṣūfī’ by İhsan Fazlıoğlu); he supplemented text portions and parts of tables in another copy of the same work, MS Cairo, Dār al-kutub, hayʾa Talʿat 43. Owner’s name (?) ‘Ḥusayn Çelebī’ (1r). A round waqf seal of Grand Vizier Aḥmad Köprülü (in office 1661–1676), founder of the Köprülü library, dated 1088/1677-8 (1r, 25r and 67r; Mühür Veritabanı, no. 46); a small octogonal seal reading ‘innamā li-kull imraʾin mā nawā’, commonly found in manuscripts of the Köprülü collection (1r [twice], 2r, 16r, 33r, 48r, 59r and 67r; Mühür Veritabanı, no. 12).
Cod.: paper, 67+Ia ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil; three small sheets with diagrams inserted after ff. 14 and 20; occasional catchwords). First page supplemented by a nastaʿlīq hand (1v). Main hand (2r–67r): naskh with tendency to nastaʿlīq. Sparsely dotted ductus, only very occasional vowel marks, hamzas or shaddas. Book headings in bold thuluth, heading of Book I in red; section beginnings in red and introduced by bold, black and overlined abjad numerals; propositions numbered with red overlined abjad numerals in the margins. Abjad numerals overlined or rubricated and overlined; Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals mainly in red and overlined. Diagrams, sometimes extending into the margins, with red lines and black geometrical points or vice versa; diagrams numbered ‘15’, ‘16’ and ‘18’ on the three inserted slips. Tables with red lines, some incomplete (e.g., 45v–48r), some glued in on separate pieces of paper (63v). Codex in good condition; significant water damage, especially on the first and last folios, not hindering the readability; some damage by insects in the margins, some stains and smudges, some folds and margins reinforced with paper slips (e.g., 2v, 3v, 67r). Dimensions: 23.5×15.6 cm, written area 19.5×12.2 cm; 33 lines per page. Reddish leather covers enveloped with marbled paper. Type II binding.
Cont.: astronomy. —
Bibl.: Defter-i Kütüphane-i Köprülü, Istanbul: Mehmed Asım Bey, 1886, p. 60; 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; Ramazan Şeşen, Cevat İzgi and Cemil Akpınar, Fihris makhṭūṭāt Maktaba Kūprīlī, 3 vols, Istanbul: IRCICA, 1986, vol. I, p. 472; 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. 32). —
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\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \65v\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ قد وفّقني اللّه تعالـ〈ـى〉 لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أولنائه (كذا) خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه واللّه أعلم واللّه المرجع والمآب. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18)
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|| \67r\فيكون مربع ه ب مجموعهما وأربعة أمثال المجموع يكون مساويًا لمربع ا ه — فخرج الطول زائدًا على ما أخذه بطلميوس بسبع وعشرين دقيقة والعرض زائدًا على ما أخذه بخمس وعشرين دقيقة فعرفنا أنّه قد تساهل وعمل على التقريب دون التحقيق واللّه الموفق. = Fī Shakl al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (C.1.18c)
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