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

Title

Astrological compendium.

Authors

• Shīrāzī, Ḥaydar ibn Muḥammad, active 13th century-14th century
  شيرازي، حيدر بن محمد،
• Fārsī, Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, active 16th century
  فارسى، تقى الدين محمد بن محمد،

Other related names

• Iṣfahānī, Muḥammad ʻAlī, active 1714, former owner
  اصفهاني، محمد علي،
• Aga Khan, Sadruddin, Prince, 1933-2003, former owner

Call number

LJS 414
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9951455093503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86167208
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5145509 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs414.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

ca. 1670 (A.H. 1081)

Place

Iran

Summary

Collection of astronomical works, including works on the astrolabe, horoscopes, risings and settings of the planets.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Three ownership seals (1r, 137r, 157r, 168v).
   

Extent

168 leaves : 194 x 128 mm. bound to 196 x 135 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 168 + i; [1-168], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Black leather (Type III) with painted gilt borders, stamped with a central mandorla and four pendants on the vertical axis, the middle two pendants bear the name Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad Bāqir; red leather doublure with gold painted central floral cross and frame.

Layout

Written in varying numbers of long lines.

Decoration

Ink drawings in the Dhakhīrat Iskandar Dhū al-Qarnayn of an animal, perhaps a jackal (f. 149v), 2 worms with pincers (f. 150v), hybrids of a snake with an animal's head and a person with a snake's tail (f. 151r), a scorpion (f. 151v), a crane (f. 152v), a youth with one hand on his head (f. 153r), and a rougher, sexual drawing of a man and a woman (f. 154v); tables in red and black (f. 41r-107r); significant words or phrases and headings in red throughout.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq by multiple hands in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Iṣfahānī, Muḥarram [1]126? A.H. (note f. 1r, stamps f. 1r-2r, 21r, 22r, 42v, 65v, 137v, 163r, 168v).
   
• Formerly owned by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan; sold at auction as part of his collection at Piasa (Paris), 7 June 1999.
   
• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2001.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   
• Ownership seals (f. 1r-2r, 22r, 42v, 65v, 137r, 157r, 168v).
   

Subjects topical

• Astrolabes--Early works to 1800
• Astrology--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Horoscopes--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, 17th century
• Manuscripts, Digital
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Anthologies
• Drawings
• Tables (documents)
• Treatises

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 414: Astrological compendium. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Mukhtas?ar dar ?ilm ast?urla?b, f. 1v
• fol. 21r — On the eclipse of the moon from the sayings of the Prophet Daniel, f. 21r
• fol. 22r — Collection of treatises and tables, f. 22r
• fol. 97v — Risa?lah mat?a?li?na?mah, f. 97v
• fol. 137r — Dhakhi?rat Iskandar Dhu al-Qarnayn, f. 137r
• fol. 157v — Treatise on a horoscope, f. 157v
• fol. 161r — Unidentified text, f. 161r
• fol. 163r — On astronomy and the astrolabe, f. 163r

Decorations

• fol. 23v — Table, f. 23v
• fol. 31r — Table, f. 31r
• fol. 31v — Table, f. 31v
• fol. 41r — Table, f. 41r
• fol. 41v — Table, f. 41v
• fol. 53r — Table, f. 53r
• fol. 53v — Table, f. 53v
• fol. 54r — Table, f. 54r
• fol. 54v — Table, f. 54v
• fol. 55r — Table, f. 55r
• fol. 56r — Table, f. 56r
• fol. 56v — Table, f. 56v
• fol. 57r — Table, f. 57r
• fol. 57v — Table, f. 57v
• fol. 58r — Table, f. 58r
• fol. 58v — Table, f. 58v
• fol. 59r — Table, f. 59r
• fol. 59v — Table, f. 59v
• fol. 60r — Table, f. 60r
• fol. 65r — Table, f. 65r
• fol. 68v — Table, f. 68v
• fol. 69r — Table, f. 69r
• fol. 69v — Table, f. 69v
• fol. 70r — Table, f. 70r
• fol. 73r — Table, f. 73r
• fol. 73v — Table, f. 73v
• fol. 74r — Table, f. 74r
• fol. 75r — Table, f. 75r
• fol. 75v — Table, f. 75v
• fol. 76r — Table, f. 76r
• fol. 77r — Table, f. 77r
• fol. 77v — Table, f. 77v
• fol. 78r — Table, f. 78r
• fol. 78v — Table, f. 78v
• fol. 79r — Table, f. 79r
• fol. 80r — Table, f. 80r
• fol. 81r — Table, f. 81r
• fol. 81v — Table, f. 81v
• fol. 82r — Table, f. 82r
• fol. 82v — Table, f. 82v
• fol. 83r — Table, f. 83r
• fol. 83v — Table, f. 83v
• fol. 84v — Table, f. 84v
• fol. 85v — Table, f. 85v
• fol. 86v — Table, f. 86v
• fol. 87r — Table, f. 87r
• fol. 88r — Table, f. 88r
• fol. 88v — Table, f. 88v
• fol. 89r — Table, f. 89r
• fol. 89v — Table, f. 89v
• fol. 90r — Table, f. 90r
• fol. 90v — Table, f. 90v
• fol. 92v — Table, f. 92v
• fol. 93r — Table, f. 93r
• fol. 93v — Table, f. 93v
• fol. 94r — Table, f. 94r
• fol. 100r — Table, f. 100r
• fol. 101r — Table, f. 101r
• fol. 105r — Table, f. 105r
• fol. 105v — Table, f. 105v
• fol. 106v — Table, f. 106v
• fol. 107r — Table, f. 107r
• fol. 109v — Table, f. 109v
• fol. 111r — Table, f. 111r
• fol. 149v — Drawing, Jackal[?], f. 149v
• fol. 150v — Drawing, Two worms, f. 150v
• fol. 151r — Drawing, Serpents, f. 151r
• fol. 151r — Drawing, Serpent with animal's head, f. 151r
• fol. 151r — Drawing, Man with serpent's tail, f. 151r
• fol. 151v — Drawing, Scorpion, f. 151v
• fol. 152v — Drawing, Crane, f. 152v
• fol. 153r — Drawing, Youth with one hand on his head, f. 153r
• fol. 154v — Drawing, Sexual drawing of man and woman, f. 154v