Istanbul, Köprülü Kütüphanesi, Fazıl Ahmed Paşa 948
Dhū l-ḥijja 370/June 981.
Or.:Baghdad; partially copied from Thābit b. Qurra’s autograph by his great-grandson Abū Isḥāq Ibrahīm b. Hilāl b. Ibrāhīm b. Zahrūn (Hārūn?) al-Ṣābī al-Ḥarrānī (d. 384/994) (pp. III, 89, 115).
Prov.:A damaged lobed rectangular seal (p. I). Ownership statement by Musṭafā b. ʿAlī (p. I). Statement of endowment in honor of Aḥmad Paša (p. I). Two ownership statements by Abū l-Qāsim b. Qayṣar b. Abī l-Qāsim b. ʿAbd al-Ghanī b. Musāfir b. Ḥusnān b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī (date cut off) and Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. Aḥmad b. Hibat Allāh b. Abī Jarāh (possibly Jarādah), dated 649/1251-2 (p. III). Three more ownership statements, the first by Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Ghazzī al-ʿĀmirī (d. 984/1576-7), the second by Ismaʿīl b. al-Nābulsī (d. 993/1585), and the third by a certain Waysī dated 1015/1606-7 (p. III). A round waqf seal by the Grand Vizier Aḥmad Köprülü (in office 1661–1676) (pp. III [next to the shelfmark ‘948’], 25, 56, 106, 115). A small octogonal seal reading innamā li-kull imraʾin mā nawā (pp. III, 2, 46, 84, 115).
Cod.: brown paper, III+115+IIa pp. (paginated with Hindu-Arabic numerals; foliated with both Hindu-Arabic and recent Arabic-European numerals; catchwords added by a later hand). A single naskh hand in black; partially dotted ductus, no hamzas or shaddas. Abjad notation overlined in black. One table and two diagrams in black (pp. 87, 88, 115). Only few marginalia in a different hand (pp. 27–28). Decorative square titlepiece with the titles of all three treatises (p. III). Codex in good condition except for minor moisture stains. Dimensions: 23×20 cm (Krause), 21×18 cm (Şeşen et al.); 10–12 lines per page.
Cont.: mathematics and astronomy. —
Bibl.: E. Bessel-Hagen and O. Spies, ‘Ṯābit b. Qurra’s Abhandlung über einen halbregelmäßigen Vierzehnflächner’, Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik, Astronomie und Physik. Abteilung B: Studien 2 (1933), pp. 186–198, esp. p. 186; 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. 454–456; David A. King, Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʿilmiyya al-maḥfūẓa bi-Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣriyya, 2 vols, Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organisation, 1981–1986, vol. I, pp. 177–178 (photographs of this manuscript in Cairo, Dār al-kutub, mīqāt 1047); vol. II, pp. 5–6 (incipit and explicit); Ramazan Şeşen, Cevat İzgi and Cemil Akpınar, Fihris makhṭūṭāt Maktaba Kūprīlī, 3 vols, Istanbul: IRCICA, 1986, vol. I, pp. 481–482; Régis Morelon, Thābit ibn Qurra. Œuvres d’astronomie, Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1987, pp.
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\p. 91\ = Thābit b. Qurra, Fī Īḍāḥ al-wajh alladhī dhakara Baṭlamyūs (C.1.4)
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