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Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Mehmed Hilmi-Fethullah Fehmi 211⁢⁢⁢⁢⁢

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

Single work: Arabic. Date:

finished on a Sunday ‘in the last third’ (fī thulth al-akhīr min-hu) of Rabīʿ al-ākhir 1134/8 or 15 February 1722 (126r).

Or.:

unknown; copied by Sharīf Fayḍī (?) (126r).

Prov.:

ownership statement by al-Sharīf al-Ḥājj Ismāʿīl b. Mīr Muḥammad Sarūrī, with a small oval seal (1r).

Cod.: paper, I+126+I^a ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in red just left above the text area, skipping a leaf after f. 68 and repeating ‘106’; an unnumbered sheet glued in after f. 124, two loose sheets after f. 126; no catchwords). A single naskh hand with tendency to nastaʿlīq; fully dotted ductus. Book and section titles in red; section numbers in black abjad. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numerals in red; geometrical points in the text overlined in red. Diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or the other way around. Tables with red lines, some unfilled. Codex in very bad condition; heavy water damage, ink offset and ink and water stains making much of the text and the glosses hard or impossible to read; cover severely worn. Dimensions: 26.5×17.5 cm; written area: 18.5×9.5 cm; 29 lines per page. Reddish-brown leather cover with floral motifs. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: note listing the ‘Middle Books’ (al-Mutawassiṭāt), with several glosses explaining terms occurring in the list (1r); Ptolemaica (1v–126r); Muṣṭafā b. Ḥamza Aṭahlī (11^th/17^th c.), fragments of the first chapter of his grammatical work Natāʾij al-afkār fī sharḥ al-iẓhār (126^terr–v, a damaged loose sheet with rule-borders and folio number ‘69’). Blank: Iv, 124^bisr, 126v, 126^bisr, and presumably Ir and I^ar–v.

Bibl.: Yazma Eserler Veritabanı: https://portal.yek.gov.tr/works/detail/404707.

1v–⁠126r	\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجوا حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \125v\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له \126r\ له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبابه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Index: preface, 1v; Book I, 1v–14v; II, 14v–26v; III, 26v–34v; IV, 34v–45v; V, 45v–57r; VI, 57r–68r; VII, 68r–78r; VIII, 78v–90r; IX, 90r–102v; X, 102v–106r; XI, 106r–112v; XII, 113r–118v; XIII, 118v–126r.— The explicit is followed by part of the epilogue of the Isḥāq/Thābit version of the Almagest (A.1.2). No authorial colophon; dated scribal colophon. No marginal corrections. Numerous glosses in the hand of the scribe, frequently including additional diagrams.

1v–⁠126r

\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجوا حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \125v\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له \126r\ له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبابه.

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

. — Index: preface, 1v; Book I, 1v–14v; II, 14v–26v; III, 26v–34v; IV, 34v–45v; V, 45v–57r; VI, 57r–68r; VII, 68r–78r; VIII, 78v–90r; IX, 90r–102v; X, 102v–106r; XI, 106r–112v; XII, 113r–118v; XIII, 118v–126r.— The explicit is followed by part of the epilogue of the Isḥāq/Thābit version of the Almagest (A.1.2). No authorial colophon; dated scribal colophon. No marginal corrections. Numerous glosses in the hand of the scribe, frequently including additional diagrams.