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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Istanbul, Köprülü Kütüphanesi, Fazıl Ahmed Paşa 933⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]
Collection of a main work and four short appendices: Arabic.  Date:

finished between ‘the two prayers’ on Thursday, 5 Dhū l-qaʿda 918/13 January 1513 (colophon, 179r).

  Or.:

unknown; copied by Muḥammad b. Mawlānā Darwīsh al-Shahīr al-Sabzī in the ‘Dār al-Ṣalṭana’, Tabriz (colophon, 179r).

  Prov.:

a short poem in red about the disgrace of book lending (IIr). A note in Persian attributed to Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī about ʿUmar al-Khayyām and a quote of a verse from the Quran (IIr). A short note about Timocharis and Hipparchus (IIr). Undated statement of ownership by Muḥammad b. Aḥmad known as ‘Munajjimik’, ‘head of the astrologers (i.e., muwaqqit) at the Sultan’s Gate’ at the Fatih Mosque, accompanied by a seal (IIr); a biographical note on al-Ṭūsī in the same hand (IIr). A small octogonal seal reading innamā li-kull imraʾin mā nawā, commonly found in manuscripts of the Köprülü collection (IIIr, 1r, 39r, 91r, 147r, 169r and 179v; Mühür Veritabanı, no. 12); a round waqf seal of Grand Vizier Aḥmad Köprülü (in office 1661–1676 and founder of the Köprülü library), dated 1088/1677-8 (IIr, 1r, 40r, 83r, 129r and 179r; Mühür Veritabanı, no. 46).

Cod.: paper with watermarks, III+179+Ia ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil in the upper left part of rectos, skipping ‘104’ and ‘105’; catchwords). A black nastaʿlīq hand with tendency to naskh. Sparsely dotted ductus; vowel marks, hamzas and shaddas provided in exceptional cases. Book titles in red, title of Book VIII in black; titles of sections (faṣl) in red; propositions (shakl) numbered in the margins with red and overlined abjad numerals; qāla/aqūlu sometimes overlined in red. Abjad numerals in the main text overlined or in red; Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in the main text in red. Mostly carefully drawn diagrams, mainly in the margins; diagram lines in red with geometrical points in black or vice versa; a corrected diagram on a small sheet attached to f. 19r; two spaces mistakenly reserved for diagrams (33r). Table outlines in red; table headings in bold and sometimes in red. Some words and sentences crossed out (e.g., 126v, 135v, 147r). Codex in good condition; some insect damage in the margins, water or moisture damage mainly on the last twenty folios, some stains and smudges; red ink of some annotations (e.g., 1r–4v) and a diagram (170r) corroded; part of the text on f. 167v rewritten on a small sheet of paper glued onto the page; some restorations with slips of paper (e.g., 164r, 168r). Dimensions: 17.7×13 cm, written area 12×7 cm; 19 lines per page. Covers and envelope flap in dark brown leather with borders, a frame filled with interlace, and a central mandorla with floral motifs. Type II binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (IIIv–173v); Ptolemaica (173v–174v); anonymous, Burhān mā qāla-hu Baṭlamyūs fī l-shakl al-rābiʿ min al-Maqāla al-thāniyya ʿashar wa-huwa tasāwī zāwiyatay b k a d k m (174v–175r); Ptolemaica (175r–177r); Ptolemaica (177v–179r). Blank: Iv, IIv, Iar and presumably Ir and Iav.

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. 33). — Yazma Eserler Veritabanı: https://portal.yek.gov.tr/works/detail/360761.

IIIv–⁠179r

\IIIv\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \173v\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول: إذا وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا لله على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبرزة (كذا) من آله وأحبّائه.

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

. — Title: Kitāb Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (IIr; in the hand of Muḥammad b. Aḥmad Munajjimik). — Additional Title: Taḥrīr Majisṭī (tail or head). — Index: preface, Iv–1r; Book I, 1r–21r; II, 21r–37r; III, 37r–48r; IV, 48r–62v; V, 62v–78r; VI, 78r–91r; VII, 91r–107v; VIII, 107v–124r; IX, 124r–142v; X, 142v–146v; XI, 146v–156v; XII, 156v–163v; XIII, 163v–173v. — No colophon. Some marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe, indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Marginal annotations mainly in a nastaʿlīq hand, including additional diagrams (e.g., 4r), using among others the sigla ‘2’, ‘12’, ‘sharḥ n hā‘ (?), and ‘niẓām’; interlinear annotations within the main text, sometimes in red.
173v–⁠174v

\173v\ [title] ا كوكب الرأس وب كوكب الرجل وفي المجسطي لأوّل سنة من ملك أنطونينس طول ا  و م وعرضه ز ك — \174v\ خرج الطول زائداً على ما أخذه بطلميوس تسع وعشرين دقيقة والعرض زائداً بخمس وعشرين دقيقة فعرفنا أنّه قد تساهل فيه وعمل على التقريب دون التحقيق واللّه أعلم باالحسن.

= Fī Shakl al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (C.1.18c)

. — Title: Fī Shakl al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (173v). No colophon. Diagram in the margin (174r). Three small marginal annotations or corrections (174r, 174v).
175r–⁠177r

\175r\ نريد أن نثبت اختلافات وقوع الخطوط في الأشكال التي تعرف منها أوضاع مراكز عطارد في مسيراتها — \175r\ وتكون الأشكال بحسب مسير المركز بالحركة الوسطى مبتدئاً من الأوج إلى التوالي هكذا. [diagrams] \176r\ [tables]

= 〈Risāla fī Ikhtilāfāt wuqūʿ al-khuṭūṭ fī l-ashkāl〉 (C.1.18a)

. — Title: none. — The text starts immediately after the explicit of the previous treatise. It is introduced as a work by al-Ṭūsī by an addition in the margin in a later hand (‘qāla mawlānā afḍal al-ʿālam Naṣīr al-Ḥaqq wa-l-Dīn’). No colophon. The text is followed by a set of diagrams and three tables. A small marginal correction (175r).
177v–⁠179r

\177v\ [title] ليكن ا ب ج د ه الحامل على مركز ز وقطر ا ب وح عليه نقطة خارجة عن المركز وج ح د د ح ه زاويتان عليها فإن كانتا متساويتين كانت قوس د ه الأوجيّة — \179r\ فقد تبيّن بالاستقراء ولم يلح إلى طريق برهانيّ بعد إلى ذلك واللّه الموفق والمعين.

= Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt (C.1.18b)

. — Title: Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt allatī taḥduthu bi-sabab al-khurūj ʿan al-markaz (177v). — Dated scribal colophon (179r). Diagrams in the margins; no marginal corrections or annotations.