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

Title

al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah.
الملخص في الهيئة

Authors

• Jighmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, -1221?
  جغميني، محمود بن محمد

Other related names

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner
• Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449, dedicatee

Call number

MS Or 21
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13540697
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1054927810
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_021.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13540697

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1500 and 1840?

Place

India?

Summary

Jaghmīnī's treatise on astronomy and geography with a preface and dedication to Ulugh Beg on the first 5 pages. Includes many diagrams and some empty spaces left for illustrations that were never completed.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from introduction (p. 5); alternate title from p. [1].
   

Extent

67 paginated leaves : 220 x 130 (170 x 90 and 170 x 75) mm

Foliation

Pages are numbered in ink, upper center: [1]-134. References in the record are to page numbers as they appear in the manuscript.

Support

Paper

Binding

Covers missing, unsupported sewn textblock with helical style primary endband.

Layout

14-23 long lines with extensive marginalia, including interlinear comments.

Decoration

Two tables (p. 12-13) and 45 diagrams in red and black; headings and other finding aids also in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, partially vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Geography, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--Islamic countries--History
• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Astronomy
• Geography, Arab
• Manuscripts, Arabic

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts
• Diagrams
• Tables (documents)
• Helical primary endbands
• Early works
• History

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• 2 — Preface to al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah
• 6 — al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah

Decorations

• 8 — Diagram
• 10 — Diagram
• 11 — Diagram
• 12 — Table
• 13 — Table
• 14 — Diagram
• 15 — Diagram
• 17 — Diagram: planets of the Solar System
• 20 — Diagram
• 21 — Diagram
• 22 — Diagam
• 23 — Diagram
• 26 — Diagram: orbits of Venus, Earth's moon, and Mercury
• 27 — Diagram: orbit of sun
• 28 — Diagram
• 31 — Diagram
• 32 — Diagram
• 33 — Diagram
• 34 — Diagram
• 37 — Diagram
• 38 — Diagram
• 40 — Diagram
• 43 — Diagram: Zodiac chart
• 44 — Diagram
• 46 — Diagram
• 48 — Diagram
• 49 — Diagram
• 51 — Diagram
• 52 — Diagram
• 53 — Diagram
• 59 — Diagram
• 60 — Diagram
• 61 — Diagram
• 62 — Diagram
• 63 — Diagram
• 64 — Diagram
• 65 — Diagram
• 66 — Diagram
• 67 — Diagram
• 69 — Diagram
• 71 — Diagram
• 72 — Diagram
• 73 — Diagram
• 74 — Diagram
• 75 — Diagram
• 99 — Diagram