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Title

Sharḥ-i Zīj Gūrgānī.
شرح زیج گورگانی

Authors

• Qūshjī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, -1474 or 1475
  قوشجي، على بن محمد

Other related names

• Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar Yaḥyá, former owner
  محمد بن جعفر يحيى,
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 400
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9950812453503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122691512
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5081245 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs400.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

A.H. 899 (1493-1494)

Place

Iran?

Summary

Commentary on the Zīj Gūrgānī, also known as the Zīj-i jadīd-i Sulṭānī, which comprised tables of calendar calculations, trigonometry, planets, and stars compiled from observations made at the observatory in Samarqand, completed in 1447. The tables themselves are not included.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from added title (f. 1r).
   
• Paper: Visible laid lines with chain lines in groups of 3.
   
• Notations on f. 1r.
   

Extent

409 leaves : 177 x 128 (111 x 72) mm. bound to 177 x 138 mm

Collation

Paper, 409 + i; 41 gatherings, alternating between 8 and 12 leaves, with 1 extra leaf added to the last gathering; [1-409], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary red leather with flap (Type II), blind-stamped central mandorla on covers and flap; marbled paper doublure.

Layout

Written in 15 long lines; frame ruled.

Decoration

Numerous diagrams in red ink; rubrications in red.

Script

Written in a naskh script in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar Yaḥyá (stamp, f. 1v, 409r).
   
• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Dec. 2000.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Commentaries
• Diagrams
• Annotations (Provenance)
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Manuscripts, Persian--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 66r — Diagram, f. 66r
• fol. 69v — Diagram, f. 69v
• fol. 73r — Diagram, f. 73r
• fol. 74v — Diagram, f. 74v
• fol. 75r — Diagram, f. 75r
• fol. 76r — Diagram, f. 76r
• fol. 77r — Diagram, f. 77r
• fol. 79r — Diagram, f. 79r
• fol. 84r — Diagram, f. 84r
• fol. 93r — Diagram, f. 93r
• fol. 94r — Diagram, f. 94r
• fol. 94v — Diagram, f. 94v
• fol. 96r — Diagram, f. 96r
• fol. 97r — Diagram, f. 97r
• fol. 97v — Diagram, f. 97v
• fol. 98v — Diagram, f. 98v
• fol. 100r — Diagram, f. 100r
• fol. 100v — Diagram, f. 100v
• fol. 101r — Diagram, f. 101r
• fol. 103v — Diagram, f. 103v
• fol. 104v — Diagram, f. 104v
• fol. 105r — Diagram, f. 105r
• fol. 108r — Diagram, f. 108r
• fol. 108v — Diagram, f. 108v
• fol. 112r — Diagram, f. 112r
• fol. 118v — Diagram, f. 118v
• fol. 120r — Diagram, f. 120r
• fol. 120v — Diagram, f. 120v
• fol. 125v — Diagram, f. 125v
• fol. 128r — Diagram, f. 128r
• fol. 129r — Diagram, f. 129r
• fol. 130r — Diagram, f. 130r
• fol. 132v — Diagram, f. 132v
• fol. 136r — Diagram, f. 136r
• fol. 140v — Diagram, f. 140v
• fol. 142v — Diagram, f. 142v
• fol. 149v — Diagram, f. 149v
• fol. 151v — Diagram, f. 151v
• fol. 155v — Diagram, f. 155v
• fol. 158v — Diagram, f. 158v
• fol. 161r — Diagram, f. 161r
• fol. 162v — Diagram, f. 162v
• fol. 164r — Diagram, f. 164r
• fol. 165r — Diagram, f. 165r
• fol. 166v — Diagram, f. 166v
• fol. 167v — Diagram, f. 167v
• fol. 169v — Diagram, f. 169v
• fol. 173r — Diagram, f. 173r
• fol. 175r — Diagram, f. 175r
• fol. 181v — Diagram, f. 181v
• fol. 182v — Diagram, f. 182v
• fol. 184r — Diagram, f. 184r
• fol. 186v — Diagram, f. 186v
• fol. 189r — Diagram, f. 189r
• fol. 189v — Diagram, f. 189v
• fol. 190r — Diagram, f. 190r
• fol. 190v — Diagram, f. 190v
• fol. 195v — Diagram, f. 195v
• fol. 198r — Diagram, f. 198r
• fol. 199r — Diagram, f. 199r
• fol. 204v — Diagram, f. 204v
• fol. 212r — Diagram, f. 212r
• fol. 213v — Diagram, f. 213v
• fol. 215r — Diagram, f. 215r
• fol. 218r — Diagram, f. 218r
• fol. 221r — Diagram, f. 221r
• fol. 233r — Diagram, f. 233r
• fol. 246v — Diagram, f. 246v
• fol. 247v — Diagram, f. 247v
• fol. 252v — Diagram, f. 252v
• fol. 254v — Diagram, f. 254v
• fol. 257r — Diagram, f. 257r
• fol. 260v — Diagram, f. 260v
• fol. 262r — Diagram, f. 262r
• fol. 266r — Diagram, f. 266r
• fol. 267r — Diagram, f. 267r
• fol. 275r — Diagram, f. 275r
• fol. 277r — Diagram, f. 277r
• fol. 279v — Diagram, f. 279v
• fol. 281v — Diagram, f. 281v
• fol. 292r — Diagram, f. 292r
• fol. 310r — Diagram, f. 310r
• fol. 311v — Diagram, f. 311v
• fol. 314v — Diagram, f. 314v
• fol. 315v — Diagram, f. 315v
• fol. 316v — Diagram, f. 316v
• fol. 318r — Diagram, f. 318r
• fol. 321r — Diagram, f. 321r
• fol. 325r — Diagram, f. 325r
• fol. 325v — Diagram, f. 325v
• fol. 326r — Diagram, f. 326r
• fol. 329v — Diagram, f. 329v
• fol. 329v — Table, f. 329v
• fol. 340v — Diagram, f. 340v
• fol. 346v — Diagram, f. 346v
• fol. 349r — Diagram, f. 349r
• fol. 349v — Diagram, f. 349v
• fol. 350v — Diagram, f. 350v
• fol. 354r — Diagram, f. 354r
• fol. 354v — Diagram, f. 354v
• fol. 366v — Diagram, f. 366v
• fol. 371r — Diagram, f. 371r
• fol. 372r — Diagram, f. 372r
• fol. 373v — Diagram, f. 373v
• fol. 374v — Diagram, f. 374v
• fol. 377v — Diagram, f. 377v
• fol. 379v — Diagram, f. 379v
• fol. 384v — Diagram, f. 384v
• fol. 386v — Diagram, f. 386v
• fol. 388r — Diagram, f. 388r
• fol. 389v — Diagram, f. 389v
• fol. 397v — Diagram, f. 397v
• fol. 398v — Diagram, f. 398v
• fol. 400v — Diagram, f. 400v
• fol. 402r — Diagram, f. 402r