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Istanbul, Köprülü Kütüphanesi, Fazıl Ahmed Paşa 948

Collection of three works: Arabic. Date:

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+II^a 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. — Index: two poems by Abū Isḥāq al-Ṣābī (the copyist) and Ibn Muqla (p. I); Thābit b. Qurra, Kitāb fī Ālāt al-sāʿāt allatī tusammā rukhāmāt (pp. 1–89); Ptolemaica (pp. 91–107); Thābit b. Qurra, Fī ʿAmal shakl mujassam dhī arbaʿ ʿashrat qāʾida tuḥīṭu bi-hi kura maʿlūma (pp. 108–115). Blank: pp. 82, 90.

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. lxxx–lxxxi. Fascsimile editions in Fuat Sezgin, Thābit Ibn Qurra ibn Zahrūn al-Ḥarrānī (d. 288/901). Three Treatises on Mathematics and Astronomy. Reproduced from MS Köprülü 948, Istanbul, Frankfurt am Main: Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften, 2011, and Pouyan Rezvani, Si risāla az Thābit ibn Qurra (Sāʿat-hā-yi āftābī, Ḥarikat-i khurshīd wa māh, Chahārdah wajhī-yi muḥāt dar kura). Nuskha bargardān bi qatʿ-i aṣl-i nuskha-yi khaṭṭī-yi bi shumāra-yi 948, Kitābkhāna-yi Kūprūlū (Istānbūl), kitābat-i 370 H., Tehran: Miras-e Maktoob, 2014. — Yazma Eserler Veritabanı: https://portal.yek.gov.tr/works/search/full?&key=21100948&linked_field=barcode.

pp. 91–⁠107 Images\|Text	\p. 91\ [title] كلّ زمانين متساويين فإنّ كلّ واحد من النيّرين إنّما تستوي حركته الحقيقيّة فيهما على أحد أربعة أوجه فقط من سبعة أوجه سنصفها وإنّما تختلف على أحد الثلاثة الأوجه الباقية منها فقط — \p. 106\ وهو مسير القمر المستوي في الطول في اليوم الواحد معلومًا. = Thābit b. Qurra, Fī Īḍāḥ al-wajh alladhī dhakara Baṭlamyūs (C.1.4) . — Title: Qawl fī Īḍāḥ al-wajh alladhī dhakara Baṭlamyūs anna bi-hi stakhraja man taqaddama-hu masīrāt al-qamar al-dawriyya wa-hiya al-mustawiya (pp. 91, 107). — Undated scribal colophon with a note that this treatise was copied from a copy owned by Thābit, but not written by him. Cross-references by the main hand in the margins. This is the original version of the work as described by Morelon (p. lxxxii).

pp. 91–⁠107

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\p. 91\ [title] كلّ زمانين متساويين فإنّ كلّ واحد من النيّرين إنّما تستوي حركته الحقيقيّة فيهما على أحد أربعة أوجه فقط من سبعة أوجه سنصفها وإنّما تختلف على أحد الثلاثة الأوجه الباقية منها فقط — \p. 106\ وهو مسير القمر المستوي في الطول في اليوم الواحد معلومًا.

= Thābit b. Qurra, Fī Īḍāḥ al-wajh alladhī dhakara Baṭlamyūs (C.1.4)

. — Title: Qawl fī Īḍāḥ al-wajh alladhī dhakara Baṭlamyūs anna bi-hi stakhraja man taqaddama-hu masīrāt al-qamar al-dawriyya wa-hiya al-mustawiya (pp. 91, 107). — Undated scribal colophon with a note that this treatise was copied from a copy owned by Thābit, but not written by him. Cross-references by the main hand in the margins. This is the original version of the work as described by Morelon (p. lxxxii).