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

Title

Other related names

• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9948287273503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/792957720
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4828727 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs434.html

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

approximately A.H. 912 (1507)

Place

Iran?

Summary

Tables used in an astrological technique for determining auspicious times for carrying out various activities. Also includes geographical illustrations and diagrams and half of a horoscope diagram for a location in northern Afghanistan dated Friday, 27 Shawwāl 912 (12 March 1507).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

Foliation

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

6 colored diagrams (eastern half of a double-page world map, f. 1r; structure and arrangement of seven climatic zones, f. 2v; geographical relationship of various cities to Mecca, f. 3r; rainbow predictions, f. 4v; setting and rising of the moon, f. 5r; half of a double-page horoscope diagram, f. 7v) and 8 decorated tables (ikhtiyārāt for the days of the solar month, f. 1v-2r; ikhtiyārāt for the lunar mansions, f. 3v-4r; ikhtiyārāt for the moon in one of the zodiacal signs, f. 5v-6r); marginal ruling in gold; significant words or numbers in red or green ink.

Script

Provenance

• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2002.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
   

Subjects topical

• Islamic astrology--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, 16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Almanacs
• Diagrams
• Tables (documents)
• World maps

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Diagram, Eastern half of world map, f. 1r
• fol. 2v — Diagram, Seven climatic zones, f. 2v
• fol. 3r — Diagram, Geographical relationship of various cities to Mecca, f. 3r
• fol. 4v — Diagram, Rainbow predictions, f. 4v
• fol. 5r — Diagram, Setting and rising of the moon, f. 5r
• fol. 7v — Diagram, Half of a horoscope diagram, f. 7v