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Istanbul, Köprülü Kütüphanesi, Fazıl Ahmed Paşa 942

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

17 Jumādā al-ūlā 890/1 June 1485 (colophon, 296r).

Or.:

unknown; copied by Farrukh Bakht b. Ghiyāth Manṣūr (colophon, 296r).

Prov.:

two statements of ownership by Muḥammad b. Manṣūr b. Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī, the son of Ghiyāth al-Dīn Dashtakī, known as ‘Ṣadr al-Thānī’, one undated (Ir) and the other dated 953/1546-7 (1r). Statement of ownership by a certain Ibrāhīm dated Jumādā l-ūlā 995/April 1587 (1r). Undated statements of ownership by ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Manṣūr b. Ismāʿīl (Ir), Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad (Ir), Muḥammad Munajjimak dabīr al-munajjimīn (Ir), Muḥammad b. Luṭf Allāh b. Zakariyyā (Ir), and Kamāl b. Muḥammad (1r). A note with unreadable date by Ṣadr b. Manṣūr, who donated the manuscript to al-Muṣliḥ al-Lārī (1r). Undated seals by Muḥammad b. Aḥmad (Ir), and by a certain Muḥammad (Ir); anonymous octagonal motto seal (1r, 2r, 56r, 96r, 125r, 146r, 151r, 178r, 230r, 260r, 287r, 296v); invocation manna min Allāh subḥāna-hu (Ir). Oval seal of endowment attributed to Abū l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. al-Wazīr Abī ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad, known as Kūprīlī (the founder of the Köprülü library), dated 1088/1677-8 (1r, 2r, 49r, 88r, 117r, 180r, 230r, 296v). Handwritten shelfmark ‘942’ in brown (1r, immediately under Kūprīlī’s seal).

Cod.: paper, I+296+I^a ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil, skipping the folio after ‘99’; we use the corrected foliation with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil on the left just above the body text on rectos from f. 100r onwards; catchwords). A single clear nastaʿlīq hand in black; almost fully dotted ductus, occasional shaddas, regular hamzas. Book and chapter numbers in thuluth in black or red; qawlu-hu/aqūlu in red at the beginning of every section; some lines crossed out. Substantial diagrams with lines in black and geometrical points and labels in red. Four mathematical tables (25r, 42r, 43r) with lines in black and headings in black or red. Beginning of text framed (1v, 2r); illuminated title piece (1v). Codex in very good condition; a few moisture stains in the margins. Dimensions: 22×12.8 cm, written area: 15.7×7 cm; 25 lines per page. Brown leather cover decorated with golden mandorlas on the covers and flap; a golden rectangle on the fore-edge flap carrying the statement li-ṣāḥibi-hī l-saʿāda wa-l-salām; blue mandorla on the inside of the cover and flap. Type II binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–296r). Blank: Iv, 296v, I^a.

Bibl.: Ramazan Şeşen, Cevat İzgi and Cemil Akpınar, Fihris makhṭūṭāt Maktaba Kūprīlī, 3 vols, Istanbul: IRCICA, 1986, vol. I, pp. 477–478. Yazma Eserler Veritabanı: https://portal.yek.gov.tr/works/detail/360776.

1v–⁠296r	\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر يمتري يستدر الزيادة. فأحمده على ما أوّلانا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض — \296r\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة ويسرى ويجدّد به ساعة فساعة كرامة وبشرى. = Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) . — Title: Sharḥ al-Majisṭī (1v, fore-edge) — Additional titles: Tafsīr al-Taḥrīr (Ir); Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (colophon, 296r). — Index: author’s preface, 1v–4r; Book I, 4r–61r; II, 61r–85r; III, 85r–115v; IV, 115v–132r; V, 132r–164v; VI, 164v–205v; VII, 205v–213v; VIII, 213v–219r; IX, 219r–236v; X, 236v–245v; XI, 245v–255v; XII, 255v–274r; XIII, 274r–296r. — Dated authorial colophons at the end of every book. Scribal colophon including the date of the exemplar (296r). Inlaid slips of paper reproducing diagrams also found in the main text (50^bis, 143^bis); several original figures replaced by figures on pasted pieces of paper in a different hand (113v, 198v, 199r, 203r, 204r, 229v, 245r, 255r, 260r, 261v). Manuscript collated by Muḥammad Munajjimak (note on f. 296r); marginal corrections by the main hand and others in black or red, indicated by ṣaḥḥa or the letter ḥ. Glosses in black or red, by Munajjimak (e.g., 118r) and by Muḥammad al-Ḥasanī al-Ḥusaynī al-Shīrāzī (as stated by his son on ff. 51v, 53r).

1v–⁠296r

\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر يمتري يستدر الزيادة. فأحمده على ما أوّلانا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض — \296r\ وأن ينعم عليه لحظة فلحظة سعادة ويسرى ويجدّد به ساعة فساعة كرامة وبشرى.

= Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38)

. — Title: Sharḥ al-Majisṭī (1v, fore-edge) — Additional titles: Tafsīr al-Taḥrīr (Ir); Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (colophon, 296r). — Index: author’s preface, 1v–4r; Book I, 4r–61r; II, 61r–85r; III, 85r–115v; IV, 115v–132r; V, 132r–164v; VI, 164v–205v; VII, 205v–213v; VIII, 213v–219r; IX, 219r–236v; X, 236v–245v; XI, 245v–255v; XII, 255v–274r; XIII, 274r–296r. — Dated authorial colophons at the end of every book. Scribal colophon including the date of the exemplar (296r). Inlaid slips of paper reproducing diagrams also found in the main text (50^bis, 143^bis); several original figures replaced by figures on pasted pieces of paper in a different hand (113v, 198v, 199r, 203r, 204r, 229v, 245r, 255r, 260r, 261v). Manuscript collated by Muḥammad Munajjimak (note on f. 296r); marginal corrections by the main hand and others in black or red, indicated by ṣaḥḥa or the letter ḥ. Glosses in black or red, by Munajjimak (e.g., 118r) and by Muḥammad al-Ḥasanī al-Ḥusaynī al-Shīrāzī (as stated by his son on ff. 51v, 53r).