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

LJS 434 Jadāvil-i ikhtiyārāt. / [جداول اختيارات]

Title

Jadāvil-i ikhtiyārāt.
[جداول اختيارات]

Other related names

Call number

LJS 434
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Persian

Origin

Written in the Timurid Empire in eastern Persia, now Iran, ca. 1507 (based on date of horoscope diagram, f. 7v).
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

Extent

7 leaves : 216 x 137 (145 x 109) mm. bound to 220 x 144 mm

Foliation

Paper, 7; [1-7]; modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century light brown leather with faded, gold-tooled frame.

Layout

  • Textblock border-ruled in gold with vertical margins extended to upper edge of the page.
  • 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

  • Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed, with headings in naskh script.
  • Provenance

    Subjects topical

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    Front cover
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    Inside front cover
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    Flyleaf 1 recto
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    Flyleaf 1 verso
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    fol. 1r
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    Decoration: Diagram, Eastern half of world map, f. 1r

    fol. 1v
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    fol. 2r
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    fol. 2v
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    Decoration: Diagram, Seven climatic zones, f. 2v

    fol. 3r
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    Decoration: Diagram, Geographical relationship of various cities to Mecca, f. 3r

    fol. 3v
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    fol. 4r
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    fol. 4v
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    Decoration: Diagram, Rainbow predictions, f. 4v

    fol. 5r
    0213_0012.tif (62.5 MB)
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    Decoration: Diagram, Setting and rising of the moon, f. 5r

    fol. 5v
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    fol. 6r
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    fol. 6v
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    fol. 7r
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    fol. 7v
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    Decoration: Diagram, Half of a horoscope diagram, f. 7v

    Flyleaf 1 recto
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    Flyleaf 1 verso
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    Inside back cover
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    Back cover
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    Spine
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