Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI
LJS 466 Treatise on longitude and latitude ... etc.
Title
Treatise on longitude and latitude ... etc.Call number
LJS 466(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)
Alternate identifiers
- bibid: 9951487543503681
- http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5148754
Publisher
The University of Pennsylvania LibrariesLanguage
Persian and ArabicOrigin
- Date
- ca. 1447
- Place
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Persia
Summary
Persian treatise on longitude and latitude (f. 1v-83r?), followed by a collection of smaller astronomical and geographical works, including an Arabic astronomical work titled Letaifu'l kelam (f. 96v-101r) and dated A.H. 853 (1447) with diagrams of the celestial spheres; and a table of longitudes and latitudes of places in the Eastern Mediterranean and Islamic world (f. 101v-103r). 2 notes with diagrams similar to those at the end of the treatise (f. 82r, 83r) and with calculations are laid in the manuscript.
Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
Extent
103 leaves : 162 x 125 (125 x 75-85) mm. bound to 162 x 130 mm. +Foliation
Paper, i + 103 + i; 1-95, [96-103], later foliation in ink, upper left recto, end of manuscript (f. 96-103) not foliated.Support
PaperBinding
Leather with ebruli (Turkish marbled) paper.Layout
Decoration
7 astronomical diagrams (f. 97r-101r) in red and black ink; 2 of another type of diagram in red and black ink (f. 82r, 83r); tables in red and black ink (f. 83v-84v, 101v-103r); overlining and significant words and phrases in red.
Script
Provenance
- Possible ownership stamps and inscriptions (f. 1r).
- Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 2004.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Subjects topical
- Astronomy--Early works to 1800
- Geography--Early works to 1800
Genres
- Codices
- Diagrams
- Tables (documents)
- Treatises
- Manuscripts, Persian--15th century
- Manuscripts, Arabic--15th century
- Manuscripts, Renaissance
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. 22r — Table, f. 22r
- fol. 82r — Diagram, f. 82r
- fol. 83r — Diagram, f. 83r
- fol. 83v — Table, f. 83v
- fol. 84r — Table, f. 84r
- fol. 97r — Diagram, f. 97r
- fol. 97v — Diagram, f. 97v
- fol. 98r — Diagram, f. 98r
- fol. 98v — Diagram, f. 98v
- fol. 99v — Diagram, f. 99v
- fol. 101r — Diagram, f. 101r
- fol. 101v — Table, f. 101v
- fol. 102r — Table, f. 102r
- fol. 102v — Table, f. 102v
- fol. 103r — Table, f. 103r
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