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Title

Authors

• Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, approximately 820-approximately 912
  قسطا بن لوقا،
• ʻAlī al-Riyāḍī al-Munajjim, active 1543
  علي الرياضي المنجم،

Other related names

• Aga Khan, Sadruddin, Prince, 1933-2003, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9948270433503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/792897354
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4827043

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

A.H. 950 (1543)

Place

Cairo

Summary

Four treatises on astrolabes and astronomy, the first and fourth treatise are incomplete; the first treatise skips from chapter 22 to chapter 30 (f. 5-6) and the fourth treatise is missing some amount of the beginning, the first complete section is "taṣtīḥ dāʼirat al-ufuq" (f. 14r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Collective title supplied by cataloger; titles of individual works from caption titles.
   

Extent

Collation

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

9 astronomical diagrams (f. 14v, 15r, 16r-18v) in red and black ink; titles in green ink; significant words or phrases in red or green ink.

Script

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 1 June 1987, lot 138.
   
• Formerly owned by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan; sold at auction as part of his collection at Piasa (Paris), 7 June 1999, lot N.3.
   
• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2001.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Astrolabes--Early works to 1800
• Astronomical instruments--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Astrolabes
• Astronomical instruments
• Astronomy, Arab

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Diagrams
• Treatises
• Early works

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Risa?lah fi?'l-'amal bil-kurah, f. 1v
• fol. 11r — Risa?lat kaifi?ya?t al-ars?a?d, f. 11r
• fol. 12v — Al-?amal bi'l-ist?irla?b, f. 12v

Decorations

• fol. 14v — Diagram, f. 14v
• fol. 15r — Diagram, f. 15r
• fol. 16r — Diagram, f. 16r
• fol. 16v — Diagram, f. 16v
• fol. 17r — Diagram, f. 17r
• fol. 17v — Diagram, f. 17v
• fol. 18r — Diagram, f. 18r
• fol. 18v — Diagram, f. 18v