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Istanbul, Nuruosmaniye Kütüphanesi, 2800

[Colour scanned images of the body text (outer margins cut off), no scans of back flyleaves, cover or binding.]

Collection of nine works: Persian and Arabic. Date:

parts I-III undated; parts IV-VI copied 658-9/1259-61 (189v, 215v, 243v).

Or.:

parts I-II: unknown (Iran or Turkey?); part III: unknown; part IV: Tukat (Turkey), copied by Jāriq ibn Ḥawbān ibn Amīr Ṣalāḥ al-Qīr (?) (189v, 201v); part V: copied by Ṣiddīq ibn al-[…] ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn […] al-Marāghī, abūhu bi-madīnat Dūqāt (215v); part VI: Sivas (Turkey), copied by an unknown scribe (243v).

Prov.:

ownership statements by ʿĪsā ibn Ardshāh ibn ʿĪsā ibn Ibr⟨ā⟩hīm al-Qūnawī al-munajjim dated 658/1259-60 and 659/1260-1 (192r, 216r, 230r); an unidentified stamp and an ownership statement by Ṣāliḥ Muṣṭafā (172r); two undated collation statements in the same hand (215v, 243v); a trimmed and damaged statement of a further collation mentioning ⟨Ṣāliḥ⟩? Muṣṭafā and ⟨ʿĪsā ibn Ardsh⟩āh ibn ʿĪsā l-Qūnawī (243v); an ownership statement in red ([…] Muḥammad […]) (230r); two copies of an unidentified stamp (172v); an undated endowment statement in favour of ʿUthman III (r. 1754-1757), under whose patronage the Nuruosmaniye mosque was completed, received by al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm Ḥanīf, inspector of endowments in the two Holy Shrines, together with his and an endowment seal (Ir).

Cod.:

seven different types of paper for the six parts (two types in Part I); II+14^a+243+I^a ff. ( foliated with European-Arabic numerals on the top left recto folios; ff. 1^a-14^a unnumbered except for a Hindu-Arabic 10; additional foliation with Hindu-Arabic numerals in part II, mostly outside of the scanned area; individual folio numbering for some treatises in parts IV-VI; catchwords in parts I-III only). Six parts for six hands. Part I (1^av-13v^a, 1r-72r): black small naskh with nastaʿlīq influence (nastaʿlīq in the diagrams), chapter headings in red. Part II (73v-102r, Ptolemaic): black neat naskh with nastaʿlīq influence, fully dotted, very rare diacritics, text of Ptolemy’s verba overlined in red, red textual dividers. Part III (102v-171v): small and consistent naskh, black for the commentary and oversized titles, red for verses and formulaic expressions. Part IV (172r-201v): quick and dense black naskh with oversized bowls of descenders, red titles. Part V (202r-215v): small dense black naskh with textual dividers and chapter titles in red. Part VI (216r-243v, including a Ptolemaic work): slightly larger black naskh, reclined, fully dotted and with many vowels, no red in the Ptolemaic section except for abjad numbers in lists, oversized hāʾ in isolated form as textual divider before prolonged qāla. Diagrams, part I: horoscopes carefully drawn in neat red with a ruler, text in both red and black; part III: reserved spaces for horoscopes. Numerals, part I: abjad in red in the diagrams, abjad and Hindu-Arabic in black overlined in red in the body-text; part II: Hindu-Arabic in red (verba numbering in the margin); parts III and IV: abjad in red; part VI: abjad in red (numbering in lists) and black (verba numbering in the margin). Damage, parts I-III: loose binding; parts IV-VI: damaged by insects, substantial moisture stains barely hindering the reading, paper slips pasted on binding and holes. Dimensions not provided; lines per page, part I: 29; part II: 25; part III: 23; parts IV-VI: 29. Brown leather cover over paper pasteboards (judging from the scans of the inner front cover). Type II binding.

Cont.:

astrology. — Index: recent summary of contents (Ir); detailed table of contents by the same hand (IIr); Īrānshāh ibn ʿAlī al-Nīshābūrī, ⟨Aḥkām-i Qirānāt⟩, in Persian (1^av-72r); Ptolemaica (73r-102r); Ptolemaica (77r–101r, margins); ⟨ʿAlī ibn Qunfudh al-Qusanṭīnī⟩, Sharḥ Urjūza fī l-qaḍāyā l-nujūmiyya li-ʿAlī ibn Abī l-Rijāl (102v-171v); Banū Mūsā, Kitāb al-Darajāt fī ṭabāʾiʿ al-burūj (172r-189v); a zodiologium (190v-191r); ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Khurāsānī, Risāla fī l-Ikhtiyārāt (192r-201v); Abū Naṣr Aḥmad Sulaymān al-munajjim, Kitāb fī Taḥāwīl sinī l-mawālīd (202r-215v); Ptolemaica (216r-229v); Zar⟨ā⟩dusht, Kitāb fī l-Mawālīd wa-aḥkāmihā (230r-243v). Blank: Iv, IIv, IIIv, 14^ar-v; 72v, 190r, 191v, back flyleaves.

Bibl.:

Nuruosmaniye Kütüphanesinde mahfuz kütüb-ü mevcudenin defteri, Istanbul: Mahmud Beğ Matbaası, 1886 (1303 H.), p. 160; 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. 449, 460, 471-472, 481, 504-505, 514; GAS VIIFuat Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums. Vol. VII: Astrologie – Meteorologie und Verwandtes bis ca. 430 H., Leiden: Brill, 1979, p. 157; Ramazan Şeşen, Mukhtārāt min al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʿarabiyya al-nādira fī maktabāt Turkiyā, Istanbul: İslām Tarih, Sanat ve Kültürünü Araştırma Vakfı (İSAR), 1997, p. 282 (no. 506); İSAM online database: http://ktp.isam.org.tr/ktpgenel/recordlistb.php?KtpKodu=0012&Demirbas=002800.

73r–⁠102r	\73v\ 〈…〉 مولانا وسيّدنا المولى المعظّم علّامة العالم مفخر بنى آدم سلطان الحكماء قدوة المحقّقين أفضل المتأخّرين أستاذ البشر نصير الحق والملّة والدين برهان الإسلام والمسلمين حجّة الحقّ على الخلق أجمعين سقى الله ثراه وجعل الجنّة مثواه كه بحكم اشارت مخذوم ومخذوم (كذا) زاده صاحب معظّم عالم مؤيّد مظفّر منصور بهاء الدولة والدين شمس الإسلام والمسلمين قدوة الأكابر في العالمين ذخر الوزراء في الآفاق مفخر ونسيب جهان محمّد بن المولى المعظّم الصاحب الأعظم شمس الخلق والدين ملك الوزراء في العالمين صاحب دیوان الممالك نظام العالم دستور العرب والعجم محمّد أعز الله أنصارهما وضاعف اقتدارهما كتاب ثمرة بطلميوس مرا بپارسى ترجمه كرده آمد وآنچه مشكل مى نمود بقدر فهم خود بمقصود ومرا [[از]] آن اشارتي كرده شد إنشاء الله تعالى كه موافق افتد و درآن يبارگاه (كذا) بزرگوار پسندیده آيد إنّه المستعان وعليه التكلان — \101v-102r\ 〈…〉 پس گفته است اگر سير كند خارجى كه قصد اقليم كند از موضع دور آيد واگر سير نكند هم از ان اقليم برخيزد. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Tafsīr Kitāb al-Thamara (Arabic–Persian version) (C.3.1250). — Title: Kitāb Sharḥ Thamarat al-falak li-Naṣīr al-Ṭūsī (73r, title page). — Additional titles: Kitab-i Thamara wa-Tasfīran (102r, explicit); Kitāb al-musammā bi-l-rūmiyya ā-n-ṭ-w-r-m-ṭ-ā wa-maʿnāhu l-miʾat al-kalima (102r, explicit). — Index: recent title (73r); dedicatory preface (transcribed above), 73v; 101 Arabic verba intertwined with Ṭūsī’s Persian commentary (73v-102v). — Commentator’s colophon giving the additional titles. A few corrections and substantial glosses by the scribe, mostly taken from Abū l-ʿAbbās al-Iṣbahānī’s commentary (C.3.1036, see below). Five further glosses from Abū Jaʿfar’s commentary on the Thamara (C.3.0930, 80v, 87r, 88r, 95r, 98r); one from a work by Abū l-Qāsim al-Balkhī (87r); 16 whose source is not stated (78v, 81v, 82v, 83v twice, 84v, 86v, 88v, 89v, 90v, 94r, 94v, 95r twice, 95v, 96v); and 12 in Persian, mostly short and including a reference to an unspecified zīj (84v).
77r–⁠101r (margins)	\77r\ 〈…〉 قال أبو العبّاس علل جميعها أبخرة إمّا رطبة وإمّا يابسة فالرطبة هي الهالات والكرورات وقوس قزح وأشباهها المتحاملة الأبصار في أهوية غير كثيرة البعد عن الأرض واليابسة هي الصاعدة إلى مجاورة النار المحيط تحت فلك القمر بالهواء واشتعالها هناك على أشكال مختلفة سريعة التلاشيء والزوال وليست بشيء منها أدلّة الأكوان والحوادث لكنّها أيضًا حادثة من دلالات النجوم — \101r\ 〈…〉 وشاهدناها ويدور بدوران بالفلك أدوار متساوية لأدوار الفلك على نظام وترتبيب ولمىه (؟) فليست طبيعته طبيعة الهشب (كذا) [[الى]] التي هي أبخرة مشتعلة مثلًا شبه في أسرع أزمنته. = Abū l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Iṣbahānī, Tafsīr Kitāb al-Thamara (C.3.1036). — Title: none. — Index: 29 excerpts copied in the margins of al-Ṭūsī’s commentary, ff. 77r, 78r (two), 79v, 82v, 83v, 85r, 86v, 87r, 88r (two), 88v, 89v (three), 90r (two), 90v, 92r, 93r, 93v, 94r, 94v, 95r, 97r (three), 98r, 101r. — No colophon. No corrections. The excerpts are found among other glosses on al-Ṭūsī’s commentary (on which see above) and are introduced by the formula qāla Abū l-ʿAbbās. The origin of 16 more glosses in the same witness is not stated explicitly; they may stem, at least partly, from Abū l-ʿAbbās’s commentary.
216r–⁠229v	\216v\ ⟨…⟩ قال بطلميوس علم النجوم منك ومنها قال المفسّر مراده في منك ومنها أنّ لتقدمة المعرفة بالنجوم طریقين — \229v\ ⟨…⟩ فإنّ المولود وسخ المجامعة وعلى هذا فقس على سائرالبيوت واجتماع كلّ كوكب مع كلّ واحد من النحسين قال المفسّر الزهرة من علل الكبرى ... = Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Dāya, Tafsīr Kitāb al-Thamara (C.3.0930), version with 102 verba, defective. — Title: Kitāb al-Thamara li-Baṭlamyūs tafsīr Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf kātib Āl Ṭūlūn (216r, 216v). — Breaks off in the middle of the commentary to verbum 82 as a result of a page loss. Colophons lost, but the same hand copied ff. 230v–243v in 658/1259-60 in Sivas. Indication of the domain of astrology to which the verbum applies (e.g. mawlad, qānūn, qirān, fī l-amrāḍ) in the margin. Rare and partially trimmed marginal glosses and corrections.