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Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Turhan Valide Sultan 219

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 Paşa 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; hamzas and shaddas sometimes written, maddas mostly provided; vowel marks scarcely written. 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, subsections numbered with red overlined abjad numerals in the margins. Hindu-Arabic and abjad numbers in the main text mostly rubricated and with overlines. Numerous diagrams, tables (sometimes unfinished, e.g., 13r–v, 185r) and a rosette (124r); diagram lines and geometrical points in black and red; tables with red lines, numbers and headers in red and black. 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: the title page bears a medallion (shamsa) with lancets and a central inscription praising Sultan Mehmed II (1r); the incipit page presents the basmala inscribed in a rectangular panel with vegetal decoration surrounded by interlace (1v), and a simple thin frame in black surrounds the first double page. Dimensions: 24×16 cm; 19 lines per page. Covers unassessable. 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; ParraMª 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. — 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\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني الله تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإيجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على الآية ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبردة من آله وأحبّائه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Taḥrīr Majiṣṭī min qibal al-hayʾa (1r). — Index: author’s 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 and mention of the date of the authorial base manuscript; no complete authorial colophon (240r–v). 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 في 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\ فخرج الطول زائدًا على ما أخذه بطلميوس بسبع وعشرين دقيقة والعرض زائدًا على ما أخذه بخمس وعشرين دقيقة فعرفنا أنّه قد تساهل فيه وعمل على التقريب دون التحقيق ولله أعلم. = Fī Shakl 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.