Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI

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 Libraries

Language

Persian and Arabic

Origin

Date

ca. 1447

Place

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

Paper

Binding

Leather with ebruli (Turkish marbled) paper.

Layout

Written in 15 (f. 1v-95r) and 19-20 (f. 96v-100v) long lines.

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

Written in nastaʻlīq script by at least 2 hands (f. 1v-95r, 96v-103r).

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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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