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Istanbul, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi, Ahmet III 3453

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Collection of more than 20 works: Arabic. Date:

dates of copying between 21 Shaʿbān 663/8 June 1265 (114v) and 20 Rabīʿ l-thānī 678/30 August 1279 (Ptolemaic part, 264v). A large part of the included works also has dated authorial colophons.

Or.:

Baghdad (18 Rabīʿ al-awwal 677/9 August 1278, 288r) and Shirwān (16 Jumādā l-thāniya 677/4 November 1278, 149v); copied by ʿAbd al-Kāfī b. ʿAbd al-Majīd b. ʿAbdallāh al-Tabrīzī for himself (114v, 128r, 264v, 288r). The scribe was previously active in Maragha and likely joined his teacher al-Kātibī l-Qazwīnī and al-Ṭūsī on their journey to Baghdad in 672/1274 (see Silvia Di Vincenzo, ‘Early Exegetical Practice on Avicenna’s Šifāʾ: Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Marginalia to Logic’, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 28 (2018), pp. 31–66, esp. pp. 40–42).

Prov.:

an ownership statement by Fatḥ Allāh al-Tabrīzī/al-Nayrīzī dated 848/1444-5 (1r). An ownership statement dated Thursday, 26 Muḥarram 867/21 October 1462 (Ir). A hexagonal seal ‘ʿAlī ʿAbd …’ (Ir). A pointed oval seal with the tughra of Sultan Bayezid II (r. 1481–1512) (1r, 289r). A big round waqf seal of Sultan Ahmet III (r. 1703–1730) (1r). Some verses quoted from Sharḥ Dīwān ʿAlī l-Murtaḍā (compiled 1772) by Müstakimzāde Süleymān (d. 1202/1787) (Ir). Additional shelfmark: ‘hayʾa 5’.

Cod.: paper, I+289+I^a ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals in pencil, incorrect numbering from f. 60r onwards crossed out and corrected; catchwords in the hand of the scribe). A neat round naskh hand, almost fully dotted in some sections, sporadic punctuation in other parts (e.g., 182v); shaddas and hamzas mostly provided, and vowel signs occasionally. Book titles in bold thuluth, chapter and paragraph beginnings rubricated; chapter beginnings additionally introduced by bold and overlined abjad numerals in black. Propositions numbered with red overlined abjad numerals in the margins. Numerous textual dividers in red. Abjad and Hindu-Arabic numbers mostly rubricated and with overlines. Diagrams with black or red lines and black geometrical points. Tables with red lines, headers in red and black, and abjad notation in black; a rosette (226r). Codex in acceptable condition; minor insect and water damage in the margins; ink corrosion causing holes especially in the beginning and affecting the reading; very few restorations with pasted slips of paper in the margins and the folds. Binding becoming loose; the number of folios ‘321’ (289v) suggests a loss of eight quaternions, probably after f. 111 (see below). Dimensions: 17.1×13.2 cm, written area: 13.9×9.6 cm; 27 lines per page (misṭara imprints). Black leather covers with fore-edge and envelope flap, decorated with frames and corner pieces, blind-stamped central mandorla (front and back covers) and medallion (flap). Type II binding.

Cont.: astronomy, mathematics, and optics. Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s recensions of the Elements and the Almagest, together with the ‘Middle Books’ (al-Mutawassiṭāt), his collection of revised treatises to be studied between the two major works. Title for the collection on the fore-edge flap: Majmūʿa awwalu-hā Kitāb Uqlīdis. — Index: table of contents (Iv, by a later hand); Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Uṣūl al-handasa li-Uqlīdis (1v–57v); al-Ṭūsī, Bayān al-muṣādara al-mashhūra li-l-ḥukamāʾ (60r–66v); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb al-Muʿṭayāt li-Uqlīdis (67r–74v); al-Ṭūsī, Kitāb al-Ukar li-Thāwdhūsiyūs (75r–85r); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb al-Kura al-mutaḥarrika li-Uṭūlūqus (85v–87r); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb Mānālāwus fī l-ashkāl al-kuriyya (87v–114v, several folios lost after f. 111); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb al-Masākin li-Thāwdhūsiyūs (115r–116v); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb al-Manāẓir li-Uqlīdis (117r–121v); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb Ẓāhirāt al-falak li-Uqlīdis (122r–128r); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb al-Ayyām wa l-layālī li-Thāwdhūsiyūs (128v–134r); al-Ṭūsī, Kitāb Awṭūlūqūs fī l-ṭulūʿ wa l-ghurūb (134v–139r); al-Ṭūsī, [Taḥrīr] Kitāb Ibsiqlāws fī l-maṭālīʿ [@NL @BvD If "Taḥrīr" is missing from the title we need "〈Taḥrīr〉" with the brackets not in italics] (139v–140r); unknown, Taḥrīr Kitāb fī Jirmay al-nayyirayn wa l-buʿd bayna-humā li-Arisṭarkhus (140v–144r); al-Ṭūsī’s short response to a risāla by Ibn al-Haytham (144r); al-Ṭūsī, Tāḥrīr Kitāb al-Maʾkhūdhāt li-Arshimīdis (144v–147r); al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb al-Mafrūḍāt li-Thābit b. Qurra (147v–149v); Banū Mūsā (redacted by al-Ṭūsī), Kitāb Maʿrifa masāḥat al-ashkāl al-basīṭa wa-l-kuriyya (150r–154v); Thābit b. Qurra (redacted by al-Ṭūsī), Kitāb al-Kura wa-l-usṭūwāna li-Arshimīdis (156v–182r); Ibn al-Haytham, Maqāla fī Qismat al-khaṭṭ alladhī istaʿmala-hu Arshimīdis fī l-maqāla l-thāniya min kitābi-hi fī l-kura wa l-usṭuwāna (182v); ʿAlī l-Samsāṭī, an extensive gloss on chapter I.3 of the Almagest (184r); Ptolemaica (184v–264v); a gloss quoting al-Ṭūsī on a mathematical proof concerning the Tadhkira (268r); al-Ṭūsī, al-Tadhkira fī ʿilm al-hayʾa (268v–288r); unidentified excerpt (288v–289r). Blank: ff. 58–59, 155r–156r, 183, 265–267.

Bibl.: KrauseMax Krause, ‘Stambuler Handschriften islamischer Mathematiker’, Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik, Astronomie und Physik, Abteilung B: Studien 3 (1936), pp. 437–532, pp. 498, 499, and 522; Fehmi Edhem Karatay and O. Reşer, Topkapı Saraı Müzesi Kütüphanesi. Arapça yazmalar kataloğu, 4 vols, İstanbul: Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi, 1962–1969, here vol. III, p. 735 (no. 7005); F. Jamil Ragep, Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Memoir on Astronomy (al-Tadhkira fī ʿilm al-hayʾa), 2 vols, New York: Springer, 1993, here vol. I, pp. 78–79; Roshdi Rashed, Les mathématiques infinitésimales du IXᵉ aux XIᵉ siècle, Vol. III: Ibn al-Haytham. Théorie des coniques, constructions géométriques et géométrie pratique, London: Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation, 2000, p. 434 (English tr. Roshdi Rashed, Ibn al-Haytham's Theory of Conics, Geometrical Constructions and Practical Geometry, London / New York: Routledge, 2013, p. 428; 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. 272 (no. 43) and 312.

184v–⁠264v	\184v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية، ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية، وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \264v\ 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: Kitāb Taḥrīr al-Majiṣṭī (1r). — Additional title: Kitāb al-Majiṣṭī (Iv, 1r) — Index: preface, 184v; Book I, 184v–193v; II, 193v–200v; III, 200v–206r; IV, 206r–213r; V, 213r–220r; VI, 220r–226r; VII, 226v–232v; VIII, 232v–239v; IX, 239v–248v; X, 248v–250v; XI, 250v–256r; XII, 256r–259v; XIII, 259v–264v. — Dated scribal colophon and a mention of the authorial base manuscript; no complete authorial colophon. This manuscript includes most of the glosses attributed to al-Ṭūsī himself, in the hand of the scribe and introduced by ḥāshiya. Other annotations include references to Kitāb Mānālāwūs (e.g., 197r) and a trimmed marginal diagram of Mercury displaying a different version of the diagram on f. 244r as it was found in al-ʿUrḍī’s copy (nuskha al-ʿUrḍī; the diagram is indeed identical to the one in a copy by al-ʿUrḍī’s son: MS Cairo, Dār al-kutub, hayʾa Talʿat 43, f. 69v). Minor marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe, mostly indicated by siglum ṣḥ.

184v–⁠264v

\184v\ أحمد الله مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية، ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية، وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \264v\ 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: Kitāb Taḥrīr al-Majiṣṭī (1r). — Additional title: Kitāb al-Majiṣṭī (Iv, 1r) — Index: preface, 184v; Book I, 184v–193v; II, 193v–200v; III, 200v–206r; IV, 206r–213r; V, 213r–220r; VI, 220r–226r; VII, 226v–232v; VIII, 232v–239v; IX, 239v–248v; X, 248v–250v; XI, 250v–256r; XII, 256r–259v; XIII, 259v–264v. — Dated scribal colophon and a mention of the authorial base manuscript; no complete authorial colophon. This manuscript includes most of the glosses attributed to al-Ṭūsī himself, in the hand of the scribe and introduced by ḥāshiya. Other annotations include references to Kitāb Mānālāwūs (e.g., 197r) and a trimmed marginal diagram of Mercury displaying a different version of the diagram on f. 244r as it was found in al-ʿUrḍī’s copy (nuskha al-ʿUrḍī; the diagram is indeed identical to the one in a copy by al-ʿUrḍī’s son: MS Cairo, Dār al-kutub, hayʾa Talʿat 43, f. 69v). Minor marginal corrections in the hand of the scribe, mostly indicated by siglum ṣḥ.