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Istanbul, Nuruosmaniye Kütüphanesi, 2942⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and covers.]

Single work: Arabic. Undated. Unknown origin; unknown scribes. Prov.:

octagonal seals with the name Abū Turāb (129r, 177v and 193r). An undated endowment statement of Sultan Osman III (r. 1754–1757), under whose patronage the Nuruosmaniye mosque was completed, recorded by al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm Ḥanīf, inspector of endowments of the two Holy Sanctuaries, with his and the Sultan’s endowment seal (1r; Mühür Veritabanı, nos. 32 and 56).

Cod.: watermarked paper, I+229+I^a ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil; catchwords). Three different hands. First hand (1v–87v): naskh with minor tendency to nastaʿliq; mostly dotted ductus, few vowel marks; 22 lines per page. Second hand (last line of 87v–169v): a mostly sloppy nastaʿliq with tendency to naskh; mostly dotted ductus, frequent shaddas, some vowel marks; 22 lines per page; nearly a whole page crossed out (89v). Third hand (170r–329v): naskh with tendency to nastaʿliq; sparsely dotted ductus, few vowel marks, hamzas and shaddas; 23 lines per page. Basmala and book headings in bold thuluth, heading for Book IV merely overlined; section headings in bold thuluth or overlined in red; qawlu-hu / aqūlu in red or overlined in red; propositions numbered by red overlined abjad in the margins. Abjad numerals overlined or in red; Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals in red and/or overlined. Diagrams with black lines and red geometrical points or exceptionally vice versa. Tables with red lines. Codex in acceptable condition; minor water damage in the margins, rectangular areas cut out from some margins (e.g., ff. 24–25, 102–103); ink corrosion, especially in the part copied by the second hand; corrosive damage by the flap (1v–3r, 20v–21v, 40v–41r); lower parts of front doublure heavily damaged. Dimensions: 23.7×13.5 cm, written area: 17.9×10.9 cm. Reddish-brown leather covers with central mandorlas (with floral motifs and a golden outline) and a frame. Probably type II binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: Ptolemaica (1v–329v). Blank: Ir (except for librarian’s notes in pencil), Iv, 110r, 110v, I^ar, and presumably I^av.

Bibl.: Nuruosmaniye Kütüphanesinde mahfuz kütüb-ü mevcudenin defteri, Istanbul: Mahmud Beğ Matbaası, 1886 (1303 H.), p. 168. — Yazma Eserler Veritabanı: https://portal.yek.gov.tr/works/detail/176384.

1v–⁠329v	\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر يمتري الزيادة فأحمده على ما أوّلانا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض — \329v\ وإذا ما رفعت غاية شرف حويتها عشت ونعشت لا تقصد مظانّ الكمالات وإلّا وقد علّقك منها علق مضنّه ولا نتشبّث\|\|  = Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan al-Nīsābūrī, Tafsīr Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.38) . — Title: Sharḥ Majisṭī Mawlānā Niẓām al-Dīn Nīshāburī (head or tail). — Index: preface, 1v–4v; Book I, 4v–59r; II, 59v–85r; III, 85v–123r; IV, 123r–141r; V, 141v–177v; VI, 177v–216v; VII, 217r–226v; VIII, 227r–233v; IX, 234r–256r; X, 256v–267v; XI, 268r–280v; XII, 281r–304v; XIII, 304v–329v (last folio missing). The text breaks off halfway into section XIII.9. — Dated authorial colophons at the end of each book except I and II. Some marginal corrections (marked by siglum ṣḥ) and annotations in the hand of the scribes; annotations by the second hand also present in the margins of the first part of the codex. Some of the annotations preserved in the autograph MS Tunis, Waṭaniyya, 3663⁢ and in MS Istanbul, Süleymaniye, Carullah 1485 are here present in the margins (156v, 158r, 160r). Collation marks blgh (e.g., 182r, 186r).

1v–⁠329v

\1v\ السعد قرين من صدر كلامه بالحمد لواهب السعادة واليمن رسيل من أعلق يمينه بشكر يمتري الزيادة فأحمده على ما أوّلانا من النعم ذات الطول والعرض — \329v\ وإذا ما رفعت غاية شرف حويتها عشت ونعشت لا تقصد مظانّ الكمالات وإلّا وقد علّقك منها علق مضنّه ولا نتشبّث|| 

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

. — Title: Sharḥ Majisṭī Mawlānā Niẓām al-Dīn Nīshāburī (head or tail). — Index: preface, 1v–4v; Book I, 4v–59r; II, 59v–85r; III, 85v–123r; IV, 123r–141r; V, 141v–177v; VI, 177v–216v; VII, 217r–226v; VIII, 227r–233v; IX, 234r–256r; X, 256v–267v; XI, 268r–280v; XII, 281r–304v; XIII, 304v–329v (last folio missing). The text breaks off halfway into section XIII.9. — Dated authorial colophons at the end of each book except I and II. Some marginal corrections (marked by siglum ṣḥ) and annotations in the hand of the scribes; annotations by the second hand also present in the margins of the first part of the codex. Some of the annotations preserved in the autograph MS Tunis, Waṭaniyya, 3663⁢ and in MS Istanbul, Süleymaniye, Carullah 1485 are here present in the margins (156v, 158r, 160r). Collation marks blgh (e.g., 182r, 186r).