Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

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

Other related names

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 15309770
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1237690118
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_004.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/15309770

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

1800?-1899?

Summary

Copy of a treatise on mathematical calculation of the movement of the celestial bodies; marginalia in Persian.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1v).
   

Extent

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

Numerous diagrams; rubrications and overlining in red.

Script

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Islamic countries--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• diagrams
• manuscripts (documents)
• Marginalia (annotations)

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Risālah dar ʻIlm-i hayʼat.

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate: David Eugene Smith
• fol. 1r — Notations
• fol. 1r — Stamp: David Eugene Smith
• fol. 1v — Diagram
• fol. 2v — Diagram
• fol. 4v — Diagram
• Insert 1 recto — Diagram
• Insert 1 verso — Diagram
• fol. 5v — Diagram
• Insert 2 recto — Diagram
• Insert 2 verso — Diagram
• fol. 8v — Diagram
• Insert 3 recto — Diagram
• fol. 9r — Diagram
• fol. 10r — Diagram
• fol. 12v — Diagram
• fol. 16r — Diagram