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

Title

Sharḥ-i Bīst bāb-i usṭurlāb.
[شرح بيست باب اسطرلاب]

Authors

• Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, active 16th century
  برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين،
• Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274
  طوسى، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد،

Other related names

• Abū al-Ḥasan Dallāl, former owner
  ابو الحسن دلال،
• Schaefler, Sam, former owner
• Schaefler, Sam, donor

Call number

MS Or 461
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14345938
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1123206662
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_461.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14345938

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

17--?-1854

Summary

A commentary on the book about the astrolabe by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī; some diagrams and tables; the final leaf is a later replacement.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger; other title from bookplate first flyleaf recto.
   
• Bookplate with title, author, and number 58 pasted onto front flyleaf recto.
   

Extent

127 foliated leaves, 4 unfoliated leaves : 185 x 125 (130 x 80) mm, bound to 187 x 130 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in reddish brown leather over pasteboard with blind-tooled double frame; bright blue pastedowns.

Layout

19 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red; diagrams and tables in red and black.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Abū al-Ḥasan Dallāl (?) (note dated 1270 A.H., f. 1r).
   
• Gift of Sam Schaefler (library bookplate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Astrolabes--Islamic Empire--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Blind tooled (decoration)
• Annotations (Provenance)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Sharḥ-i Bīst bāb-i usṭurlāb].

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Inscription
• fol. 7v — Diagram
• fol. 14r — Diagram
• fol. 15r — Diagram
• fol. 16v — Diagram
• fol. 33v — Diagram
• fol. 37v — Diagram
• fol. 38r — Table
• fol. 46v — Diagram
• fol. 46v — Diagram
• fol. 50v — Diagram
• fol. 52v — Diagram
• fol. 65v — Diagram
• fol. 69v — Diagram
• fol. 72r — Diagram
• fol. 77v — Diagram
• fol. 79r — Diagrams
• fol. 79v — Diagram
• fol. 81v — Diagram
• fol. 82v — Diagram
• fol. 83v — Diagram
• fol. 87v — Diagram
• fol. 89v — Diagram
• fol. 90v — Diagram
• fol. 93v — Diagram
• fol. 94r — Diagram
• fol. 102r — Diagram
• fol. 103v — Diagram