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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.1.44). 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 H.), 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\ 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\ 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.