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Istanbul, Hacı Selim Ağa Kütüphanesi, 727⁢⁢⁢⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and front doublure.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

finished in Rabīʿ al-awwal 1076/September-October 1665, correctly stated to correspond to the Byzantine year 1976, 587 Jalālī, and 1034 Yazdigird (209r).

Or.:

copied by Nadhar Muḥammad al-Ardabīlī (209r, with three impressions of his seal with digits ‘183’); two more impressions on f. Ir and one on f. 118r).

Prov.:

an erased statement and seal (Ir); an illegible signature (IIr); an erased oval seal (IIr). Owner statement by Muḥammad ʿUbayd Allāh (Ir, in red); two mentions of the owner’s name Muḥammad ʿUbayd Allāh Mūsā-Zāda, plus an erased one (IIr). The anonymous author of a short note on f. Ir states that he had at hand copies of the commentaries by al-Nīsābūrī (C.1.38) and al-Birjandī (C.1.42). Large almond-shaped seal of endowment of Selim Ağa (d. 1203/1789) dated 17 Shawwāl 1196/25 September 1782 (IIr, 41r, 124r; Mühür veritabanı, no. 39).

Cod.: paper, II+210 ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil near the top left of the text area; catchwords). A single quick nastaʿlīq hand; partially dotted ductus. Book headings in black and red bold thuluth; section numbers in bold black overlined abjad, section titles in red thuluth. Proposition numbers in red overlined abjad in the margins. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals in red and overlined; geometrical points in the text overlined in black. Most diagrams carefully drawn with red lines and black geometrical points, sometimes vice versa. Tables with red lines. Codex in good condition; traces of use on the first few folios, strong show-through on all pages. Dimensions: 16.4×9.2 cm; written area: 10.7×4.5 cm; 18 lines per page. Front doublure of dark-brown leather, decorated with a thin golden rule-border. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: note in the hand of the scribe on the ‘Middle Books’ (Kitāb al-Mutawassiṭāt) (Iv); Ptolemaica (IIv–209r). Blank: 210r–v.

Bibl.: Defter-i Kütüphane-i Elhac Selim Ağa, Dersaadet (=Istanbul): Artin Asaduryan, 1892 (1310 Hijra), p. 63; 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; Parra, p. 268 (no. 31). — Yazma Eserler Veritabanı: https://portal.yek.gov.tr/works/detail/364517.

IIv–⁠209r	\IIv\ الحمد للّه مبدء كلّ مبدء وغاية كلّ غاية ❊ ومفيض كلّ خير وولّى كلّ هداية ❊ وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \209r\ فلنختم الكتاب أقول إذا وفقني اللّه تعالى 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: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī li-l-Ṭūsī (Ir). — Index: preface, IIv–1r; Book I, 1r–27v; II, 27v–47r; III, 47r–61v; IV, 61v–77v; V, 77v–96v; VI, 96v–112v; VII, 112v–129r; VIII, 129r–146v; IX, 146v–167v; X, 167v–173r; XI, 173r–186v; XII, 186v–195v; XIII, 195v–209r. — No authorial colophon; dated scribal colophon. Marginal corrections. Some notes in the hand of the scribe stemming from al-Ṭūsī himself (e.g., 96v, 113v). Instructions for the rubricator visible on some pages (e.g., 97r–v). Glosses up to section I.10, mostly marked with siglum nẓ.

IIv–⁠209r

\IIv\ الحمد للّه مبدء كلّ مبدء وغاية كلّ غاية ❊ ومفيض كلّ خير وولّى كلّ هداية ❊ وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \209r\ فلنختم الكتاب أقول إذا وفقني اللّه تعالى 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: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī li-l-Ṭūsī (Ir). — Index: preface, IIv–1r; Book I, 1r–27v; II, 27v–47r; III, 47r–61v; IV, 61v–77v; V, 77v–96v; VI, 96v–112v; VII, 112v–129r; VIII, 129r–146v; IX, 146v–167v; X, 167v–173r; XI, 173r–186v; XII, 186v–195v; XIII, 195v–209r. — No authorial colophon; dated scribal colophon. Marginal corrections. Some notes in the hand of the scribe stemming from al-Ṭūsī himself (e.g., 96v, 113v). Instructions for the rubricator visible on some pages (e.g., 97r–v). Glosses up to section I.10, mostly marked with siglum nẓ.