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Istanbul, Ragıp Paşa Kütüphanesi, 914⁢⁢

[Colour scanned images of the textblock and front cover.]

Single work: Arabic. Date:

finished ‘in the months’ of 1034/1624-5 (199r).

Or.:

unknown, probably Isfahan; copied by Muḥammad, known as Ghulām b. Shams al-Dīn ʿAlī al-Afīnī al-Qāʾinī, for himself (wa-kātibu-hu wa-māliku-hu) (199r, with a seal); he also copied and owned MS Tehran, Mahdawī, 486 a few years earlier, probably in Isfahan.

Prov.:

a Persian loan statement dated 5 Rabīʿ al-awwal and mentioning a certain Mullā Muḥammad Shafīʿ (IIr). A round seal with geometric kufic script (IIr). A sloppy and undated Persian ownership statement by Mīrz〈ā〉 Ibrahīm Asad (?) (199v, upside-down). A small rectangular seal of al-Ḥassan b. ʿAlī (IIv). A big round seal of endowment by Mehmed Ragıp Paşa (Ottoman Grand Vizier, 1757–1763) dated 1175/1761-2 (1r, 104r and 198v; Mühür Veritabanı, no. 31). An illegible round stamp, likely a modern library stamp (e.g., 1r, 27v, 198v). Old shelfmarks: several earlier stamps of the Ragıp Paşa collection with handwritten numbers ‘768’, ‘903’, and ‘906’ (1r).

Cod.: paper, II+199+I^a ff. (foliated with Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil; ff. 116–127 additionally numbered with Hindu-Arabic numerals from ‘1’ to ‘12’, mostly trimmed; small unnumbered sheets of paper inserted after ff. 15 and 61; catchwords). A nastaʿlīq hand; almost fully dotted ductus, some vowel marks and shaddas, few hamzas. Book headings in red bold thuluth-like script, those for Books I and VIII in black bold thuluth; section headings in red and introduced by black abjad numerals mostly with red overlines;propositions numbered with red overlined abjad numerals in the margins. Abjad numerals and Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals mostly in red, often overlined. Carefully drawn diagrams with red lines and black geometrical points or vice versa. Tables with red lines and headings in bold red or black thuluth. Codex in good condition; minor damage by insects mainly along the lower folds (ff. II–4) and at the top of the front doublure and f. I, minor restorations (e.g., 71r–v, 118r). Dimensions: 23.5×12.3 cm, written area: 16.0×6.4 cm; 18–21 lines per page (misṭara imprints clearly visible on ff. IIr–v). Entire binding and doublures covered by yellowish cloth. Type II binding.

Cont.: astronomy. — Index: short note about the study order of the ‘Middle Books’ (al-Mutawassiṭāt), followed by the work title and an eulogy on al-Ṭūsī, the last two said to have been copied from an autograph (hādhā ṣūra khaṭṭ al-muḥarrir), all in the hand of the scribe (1r; cf. for an identical note MS Tehran, Malik, 3389⁢⁢); Ptolemaica (1v–199r). Blank: Ir–v, 15^bisv, 61^bisr, I^ar, and presumably I^av.

Bibl.: Defter-i Kütüphane-i Rāgib Pāşā, Dār al-Saʿādat (Istanbul), 1892 (1310 H.), p. 70; KrauseMax Krause, ‘Stambuler Handschriften islamischer Mathematiker’, Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik, Astronomie und Physik, Abteilung B: Studien 3 (1936), pp. 437–532, p. 504; Maḥmūd al-Sayyid Dughaym, Fihrist al-Makhṭūṭāt al-ʿarabiyya wa-l-turkiyya wa-l-fārsiyya fī Maktaba Rāghib Pāshā, 10 vols, Jidda: Saqīfat al-Ṣafā al-ʿIlmiyya, 2016, vol. VI, p. 566 (no. 1177); Parra, p. 269 (no. 36).

1v–⁠199r	\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \199r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه. = Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18) . — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (1r, in the hand of the scribe). — Additional Title: Kitāb Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (IIr). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–23v; II, 24r–39r; III, 39r–53v; IV, 54r–71r; V, 71r–92v; VI, 92v–109v; VII, 110r–122r; VIII, 122r–135v; IX, 135v–155v; X, 156r–161v; XI, 162r–175v; XII, 175v–185r; XIII, 185r–199r. — Dated scribal colophon. Some marginal corrections by the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Frequent and sometimes long marginal annotations in the hand of the scribe using, among others, sigla min-hu (e.g., 2r, 30r, 177v), ʿ or ʿbl (e.g., 54r, 93v, 114r), nḍ (e.g., 15r, 68r, 105r) and reference mark ‘12’ (e.g., 28r, 36r); some additional diagrams and figures in the margins (e.g., 14r, 53r, 177v); an additional table (15^bisr) and an annotation (61^bisv) on inserted small sheets.

1v–⁠199r

\1v\ أحمد اللّه مبدأ كلّ مبدأ وغاية كلّ غاية ومفيض كلّ خير ووليّ كلّ هداية وأرجو حسن توفيقه في كلّ بداية ونهاية — \199r\ فلنختم الكتاب وأقول وإذ وفّقني اللّه تعالى أيضًا لإتمام ما قصدته وإنجاز ما وعدته فلأقطع الكلام حامدًا له على آلائه ومصلّيًا على جميع أوليائه خصوصًا على خاتم أنبيائه والبررة من آله وأحبّائه.

= Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (C.1.18)

. — Title: Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (1r, in the hand of the scribe). — Additional Title: Kitāb Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (IIr). — Index: preface, 1v–2r; Book I, 2r–23v; II, 24r–39r; III, 39r–53v; IV, 54r–71r; V, 71r–92v; VI, 92v–109v; VII, 110r–122r; VIII, 122r–135v; IX, 135v–155v; X, 156r–161v; XI, 162r–175v; XII, 175v–185r; XIII, 185r–199r. — Dated scribal colophon. Some marginal corrections by the scribe indicated by siglum ṣḥ. Frequent and sometimes long marginal annotations in the hand of the scribe using, among others, sigla min-hu (e.g., 2r, 30r, 177v), ʿ or ʿbl (e.g., 54r, 93v, 114r), nḍ (e.g., 15r, 68r, 105r) and reference mark ‘12’ (e.g., 28r, 36r); some additional diagrams and figures in the margins (e.g., 14r, 53r, 177v); an additional table (15^bisr) and an annotation (61^bisv) on inserted small sheets.