Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Collection of astronomical texts.

Authors

• Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274
  طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد،

Other related names

• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 407
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9950826723503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122597045
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5082672 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs407.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

between 1500 and 1599?

Summary

Collection of astronomical works by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, which include material on sunset and sunrise, the size of the earth, the moon, the distance to the moon, the distance between the sun and the planets, movement of the spheres, and eclipses. Some marginal notes in another hand, affected by trimming.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Paper: Wove paper.
   

Extent

77 leaves : 166 x 112 (150 x 85) mm. bound to 175 x 120 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 77 + i; [1-77], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Later red leather over pasteboard; gilt stamped with inlay central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis; spine at the manuscript's top edge, like a notepad.

Layout

Written in 21 long lines.

Decoration

15 astronomical diagrams in red and black; rubrications in red.

Script

Written in a naskh script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2001.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, 16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Anthologies
• Diagrams
• Handbooks
• Inlays (decorative components)
• Early works

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 27v — Diagram, f. 27v
• fol. 34v — Diagram, f. 34v
• fol. 43r — Diagram, f. 43r
• fol. 49r — Diagram, f. 49r
• fol. 49v — Diagram, f. 49v
• fol. 54v — Diagram, f. 54v
• fol. 58r — Diagram, f. 58r
• fol. 58v — Diagram, f. 58v
• fol. 61v — Diagram, f. 61v
• fol. 64r — Diagram, f. 64r
• fol. 67r — Diagram, f. 67r
• fol. 68r — Diagram, f. 68r
• fol. 69r — Diagram, f. 69r
• fol. 70r — Diagram, f. 70r
• fol. 77v — Diagram, f. 77v