LJS 407 Collection of astronomical texts.
Title
Collection of astronomical texts.Authors
- Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274
طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد،
Other related names
- Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner
Call number
LJS 407(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)
Alternate identifiers
Publisher
University of PennsylvaniaLanguage
PersianOrigin
Item is undated; perhaps copied in the 16th century.
- Date
- between 1500 and 1599?
Summary
Collection of astronomical works by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, which include material on sunset and sunrise, the size of the earth, the moon, the distance to the moon, the distance between the sun and the planets, movement of the spheres, and eclipses. Some marginal notes in another hand, affected by trimming.
Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Paper: Wove paper.
Extent
77 leaves : 166 x 112 (150 x 85) mm. bound to 175 x 120 mmFoliation
Paper, i + 77 + i; [1-77], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.Support
PaperBinding
Later red leather over pasteboard; gilt stamped with inlay central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis; spine at the manuscript's top edge, like a notepad.Layout
Decoration
15 astronomical diagrams in red and black; rubrications in red.
Script
Provenance
- Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2001.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
- Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
Subjects topical
- Astronomy--Early works to 1800
- Astronomy
Genres
- Manuscripts, Persian
- Manuscripts, 16th century
- Manuscripts, Renaissance
- Codices (bound manuscripts)
- Anthologies
- Diagrams
- Handbooks
- Inlays (decorative components)
- Early works
Licenses
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- Text
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- URL
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- Text
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- URL
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Decorations
- fol. 27v — Diagram, f. 27v
- fol. 34v — Diagram, f. 34v
- fol. 43r — Diagram, f. 43r
- fol. 49r — Diagram, f. 49r
- fol. 49v — Diagram, f. 49v
- fol. 54v — Diagram, f. 54v
- fol. 58r — Diagram, f. 58r
- fol. 58v — Diagram, f. 58v
- fol. 61v — Diagram, f. 61v
- fol. 64r — Diagram, f. 64r
- fol. 67r — Diagram, f. 67r
- fol. 68r — Diagram, f. 68r
- fol. 69r — Diagram, f. 69r
- fol. 70r — Diagram, f. 70r
- fol. 77v — Diagram, f. 77v
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