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Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Turhan Valide Sultan 219

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Single work with two short appendices: Arabic. Date:

849/1445-6 (240v).

Or.:

unknown, probably Ottoman; unknown scribe. Prepared for Sultan Mehmed II (r. 1444–1446 and 1451–1481), as shown by a dedication to him in a medallion on the title page (1r). MS Istanbul, Millet, Feyzullah Efendi 1360, a later copy by the order of Mehmed II, contains the same marginalia and was therefore likely copied from, or collated with, the present manuscript.

Prov.:

a pointed oval seal with the tughra of Bayezid II (r. 1481–1512), son of Sultan Mehmed II (1r). A big round seal of Tūrkhān Hadīja Wālida Sultan (d. 1683), who ruled for her young son, Sultan Mehmed IV (r. 1648–1687) (1r, 133r, 244v).

Cod.: paper, I+244+I^a ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals; catchwords in the scribe’s hand; watermark visible on the back flyleaf: a bird spreading its wings, possibly a duck or swan). A black naskh hand with tendency to nastaʿlīq. Very neat and mostly dotted script; some hamzas and shaddas, most maddas, rare vowel marks. Occasional textual dividers in the form of one or three red dots. Book headings in black thuluth, chapter headings and paragraph beginnings rubricated, chapter beginnings additionally introduced by overlined bold abjad numerals in black, propositions numbered with red overlined abjad numerals in the margins. Hindu-Arabic and abjad numbers in the text mostly rubricated and with overlines. Diagrams with lines and geometrical points in black and red. Tables with red lines and numbers and headers in red and black, some unfinished (e.g., 13r–v, 185r); a rosette (124r). Codex in very good condition; minor damage caused by insects, occasionally repaired with pasted slips of paper (ff. 174–184, upper margins). This manuscript is decorated in mid-blue and gold with some turquoise and black elements: a medallion (shamsa) with lancets and a central inscription praising Sultan Mehmed II on the title page (1r); basmala inscribed in a rectangular panel with vegetal decoration surrounded by interlace (1v), and a simple thin frame in black on the first two pages. Dimensions: 24×16 cm; 19 lines per page. Type II binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–240r); Ptolemaica (240v–243r); Ptolemaica (243v–244v). Blank: 52v.

Bibl.: Yeni Cami Kütüphanesinde mahfūz kütüb-i mevcudenin defteridir, Istanbul: Matbaa-i Osmaniye, 1882–1883 (1300 H.), p. 92; 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; 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, pp. 271–272 (no. 41). — Yazma Eserler Veritabanı: https://portal.yek.gov.tr/works/detail/339940.

1v–⁠240r	\1v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \240r\ فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه 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 Majiṣṭī min qibal al-hayʾa (1r). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–28r; II, 28r–47r; III, 47r–63r; IV, 63r–83v; V, 83v–106v; VI, 106v–124v; VII, 124v–149v; VIII, 149v–175v; IX, 175v–199r; X, 199r–205v; XI, 205v–216v; XII, 216v–225v; XIII, 225v–240r. — Dated scribal colophon with mention of the date of the authorial base manuscript; no complete authorial colophon. This manuscript includes some of the glosses attributed to al-Ṭūsī himself, in the hand of the scribe. Some marginal annotations and substantial glosses, some with diagrams (e.g., 21r), are attributed to ‘the commentator’ al-shāriḥ and were extracted from al-Nīsābūrī’s Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38). Marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe mostly indicated by siglum ṣḥ.
240v–⁠243r	\240v\ [title] ليكن ا ب ج د ه الحامل على مركز وقطر ا ب وح عليه نقطة خارجة عن المركز — \243r\ فقد تبيّن بالاستقراء ولم يلج لي طريق برهانيّ بعد إلى ذلك والله الموفّق. = 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 (240v). — No marginal annotations.
243v–⁠244v	\243v\ [title] ا كوكب الرأس وب كوكب الزحل وفي المجسطي لأوّل سنة من ملك أنطونيس طول ا  و م وعرضه ز ك — \244v\ والعرض زائدًا على ما أخذه بخمس وعشرين دقيقة فعرفنا أنّه قد تساهل فيه وعمل على التقريب دون التحقيق والله أعلم. = Fī Tashakkul al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (C.1.18c) . — Title: Qawl fī Tashakkul al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (243v). — No marginal annotations.