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

Title

Zīj.
زيج

Other related names

• Plimpton, George A. 1855-1936, former owner
• Plimpton, George A. 1855-1936, donor
• Sarūrī, Ismāʻīl ibn Pīr Muḥammad, former owner
  سرورى، اسماعيل بن پير محمد،
• Dahīʹzādah, active 1797, former owner
  دهى‌ز‌اده،
• Ibrāhīmʹzādah Ismāʻīl Z̲ihnī, active 1830, former owner
  ابراهيم‌ز‌اده اسماعيل ذهنى،

Call number

MS Or 293
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 15309765
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1237690089
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_293.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/15309765

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

17--?-1797

Summary

Copy of a work on horoscopes. A short introduction precedes numerous tables of their risings and settings.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r); other title from beginning of work (f. 1v).
   
• Three owner's notes, two of which are dated 1212 A.H. (1797 CE) and 1246 A.H. (1830 CE) (second front flyleaf recto) and two effaced stamps (first and second front flyleaves recto).
   

Extent

77 foliated leaves : 220 x 136 (130 x 83) mm, bound to 220 x 142 x 13 mm

Support

Paper

Layout

Written in 23 long lines or in 10-column tables; border-ruled.

Decoration

Border-rules and rubrications in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936.
   
• Formerly owned by al-Sayyid al-Ḥājj Ismāʻīl ibn Pīr Muḥammad Afandī Sarūrī (note in ink second front flyleaf recto).
   
• Formerly owned by [...] Dahīʹzādah, 1212 A.H. (1797 CE) (note in ink second front flyleaf recto).
   
• Formerly owned by Ibrāhīmʹzādah Ismāʻīl Z̲ihnī?, 1246 A.H. (1830 CE) (note in ink second front flyleaf recto).
   
• Formerly owned by George Arthur Plimpton (bookplates inside front and back covers).
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York
• Astronomy, Arab--Tables--Early works to 1800
• Astrology, Arab--Tables--Early works to 1800

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• manuscripts (documents)
• tables (documents)
• Annotations (Provenance)

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Zīj.

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate: "George A. Plimpton"
• fol. 1r — Owner's notations
• Inside back cover — Bookplate: "George A. Plimpton"