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Istanbul, Köprülü Kütüphanesi, Fazıl Ahmed Paşa 943

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Single work: Arabic. Date:

Sunday, 11 Rajab 845/26 November 1441 (222v).

Or.:

unknown; copied by Aḥmad b. Ismāʿīl al-Tirmidhī (222v). Collated with an autograph in Ottoman territory by one of the owners, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad, known as Munajjimak Raʾīs al-munajjimīn, who also corrected the figures (222v).

Prov.:

a verse of a Persian poem with date Jumādā l-thāniya 886/July-August 1481, with the year in abjad (Ir). A repeated verse from a Persian poem (paste-down and Ir) and two verses of an Arabic poem (Ir). Undated ownership statement by Saʿd Allāh b. ʿĪsā b. Amr Khān (1r). Undated ownership statement by the above-mentioned Raʾīs al-Munajjimīn, Muḥammad ʿAlī l-Munajjim (Ir); undated ownership statement by Muḥammad, known as Munajjimak Raʾīs al-Munajjimīn (d. 1667), with an undated oval seal (Ir). Oval endowment seal by Abū l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. al-wazīr Abī ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad, known as Kūprīlī (the founder of the Köprülü library), dated 1088/1677-8 (1r, 2r, 33r, 65r, 95r, 144r, 192r, 222v). Octagonal motto seal (1r, 2r, 64r, 108r, 172r, 222v); a damaged small oval seal (Ir).

Cod.: paper, I+221+I^a ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil just left above the body text on rectos, with f. 59 foliated as 69 and the actual 69 repeated; an earlier foliation with Hindu-Arabic numerals in ink up to f. 53, then in pencil by a different hand, deviating from the later foliation by one or two in an inconsistent way; catchwords). A single clear taʿlīq hand in black; occasionally dotted ductus, occasional shaddas, regular hamzas except on initial alifs. Book numbers in red, chapter numbers in Hindu-Arabic numerals or written out in red; qawlu-hu/aqūlu in red at the beginning of every section. Abjad notation in the text in black or red, occasionally overlined. Several diagrams with red lines and letters and labels in black. Three tables with headings in black or red (27v, 28r, 28v). Codex in very good condition; occasional moisture stains not affecting the readability of the text. Dimensions: 26.5×16 cm, written area: 18×9 cm; 29 lines per page. Brown leather cover with a simple rectangular frame. Type II binding.

Cont.: Astronomy. — Index: quotation from another work by Niẓām al-Dīn al-Nisābūrī about an invocation by Amīr al-Muʾminīn ʿAlī (1r); Ptolemaica (1v–222v). Blank: Iv, I^ar.

Bibl.: Ramazan Şeşen, Cevat İzgi and Cemil Akpınar, Fihris makhṭūṭāt Maktaba Kūprīlī, 3 vols, Istanbul: IRCICA, 1986, here vol. I, p. 478. — Yazma Eserler Veritabanı: https://portal.yek.gov.tr/works/detail/360777.

1v–⁠222v	\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة. واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر يمتري الزيادة — \222v\ 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 Taḥrīr Majisṭī (Ir, fore-edge). — Index: preface, 1v–3r; Book I, 3r–41v; II, 41v–59r; III, 59r–80v; IV, 80v–92v; V, 92v–116v; VI, 116v–148r; VII, 148r–154v; VIII, 154v–158v; IX, 158v–172r; X, 172r–179v; XI, 179v–188v; XII, 188v–204r; XIII, 204r–222v. — Dated authorial colophons at the end of every book; dated scribal colophon. Marginal corrections by the main hand and others in black or red, indicated by ṣḥ or ṣ. Minor glosses in a different hand from the main text in black. Inserted slips of paper reproducing diagrams found in the main text (98^bis, 187^bis); inserted slips of paper with notes, calculations and figures related to the text, in a different hand (17^bis, 69^bis, 121^bis, 191^bis); original figure replaced by figure on a pasted piece of paper in a different hand (167r).

1v–⁠222v

\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة. واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر يمتري الزيادة — \222v\ 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 Taḥrīr Majisṭī (Ir, fore-edge). — Index: preface, 1v–3r; Book I, 3r–41v; II, 41v–59r; III, 59r–80v; IV, 80v–92v; V, 92v–116v; VI, 116v–148r; VII, 148r–154v; VIII, 154v–158v; IX, 158v–172r; X, 172r–179v; XI, 179v–188v; XII, 188v–204r; XIII, 204r–222v. — Dated authorial colophons at the end of every book; dated scribal colophon. Marginal corrections by the main hand and others in black or red, indicated by ṣḥ or ṣ. Minor glosses in a different hand from the main text in black. Inserted slips of paper reproducing diagrams found in the main text (98^bis, 187^bis); inserted slips of paper with notes, calculations and figures related to the text, in a different hand (17^bis, 69^bis, 121^bis, 191^bis); original figure replaced by figure on a pasted piece of paper in a different hand (167r).