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

Title

Panjāh bāb-i sulṭānī bi-ʻilm-i usṭurlāb.
پنجاه باب سلطانى بعلم اسطرلاب

Authors

• Āmulī, Rukn ibn Sharaf al-Dīn, active 1456
  آملى، رکن بن شرف الدىن

Other related names

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner
• Abū al-Qāsim Bābur Mīrzā, dedicatee

Call number

MS Or 19
(New York, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13554124
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1055768650
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_019.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13554124

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1899?

Place

Herat

Summary

On the use of the astrolabe in calendar making and astrology; ends abruptly; no colophon.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from p. [1] of the manuscript.
   

Extent

42 bi-paginated leaves : 200 x 140 (165 x 110) mm, bound to 220 x 150 mm

Foliation

Numbers in ink at the top of every other page, number 11 repeats. Catchwords every verso, lower left. References in the record are to the pagination as it appears in the manuscript.

Support

Paper

Binding

Islamic binding, sewn on two wide leather thongs. Full dark brown leather, blind tooled.

Layout

17 lines per page with some marginalia; frame-ruled.

Decoration

Section headers and overlines in red. Includes 7 tables: pp. [24], [32], 35, [36], 43, [54], [60], and 4 diagrams: pp. 25, [26], 27, 63.

Script

Written in nastaʻliq in black ink.

Provenance

• Presumed to be a gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Astrolabes--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Astronomical instruments--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

• Manuscripts
• Codices
• Diagrams
• Tables (documents)
• Islamic bindings (Binding)
• Full covers
• Supported sewing

Licenses

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Table of contents

• 2 — Panjāh bāb-i sulṭānī bi ʻilm-i usṭurlāb

Decorations

• 25 — Diagram
• 27 — Diagram
• 35 — Table
• 43 — Table
• 63 — Diagram