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Title

Kitāb fī istīʻāb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣanʻat al-asṭurlāb.
[كتاب في استيعاب الوجوه الممكنة في صنعة الاسطرلاب]

Authors

• Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 973?-1048
  بيروني، محمد بن احمد،
• Alhazen, 965-1039
  ابن الهيثم،
• Qūhī, Wayjan ibn Rustam, -approximately 1000
  قوهي، ويجن بن رستم،

Call number

Oversize LJS 478
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9949213493503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/793019702
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs478.html http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3c81j https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000482

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 625 (1228)

Summary

Collection of astronomical treatises, the main text of which is al-Bīrūnī's Kitāb fī istīʻāb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣanʻat al-asṭurlāb. This is followed by a short work on crab and drum astrolabes; a treatise on instruments, including one for finding the direction to Mecca; a treatise on the ecliptic; and a treatise on the compass, all copied in the same hand.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• 1. f. 1v-66r: Kitāb fī istīʻāb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣanʻat al-asṭurlāb / Abū Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī -- 2. f. 66v: Fī istikhrāj al-ṭaliʻ min al-Sarṭān wa-al-Muṭabbal -- 3. f. 67r-72v: Fī ḥaqq al-qamr -- 4. f. 73r-75r: Maqālah fī ḥarakat al-iltifāf / Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham -- 5. f. 76v-86v: Kitāb fī al-ālah allatī samīnā al-birkār al-tāmm / Wayjan ibn Rustam al-Qūhī
   
• Paper: Laid paper chain lines occasionally visible in sets of two.
   
• Given as a pious endowment (waqf) in 1292 A.H. (note in Persian in ink, f. 1r); several other notes and stamps (f. 1r, 75r), one dated 1120 A.H. (f. 86v).
   

Extent

I, 86, i leaves : 252 x 171 (190 x 124) mm bound to 252 x 178 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 87 + i; [1-87]; some irregular foliation in ink, upper right verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

13th-century leather, blind-stamped, with replacement flap.

Layout

Written in 21-24 long lines.

Decoration

Numerous diagrams in red ink; rubrications in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; partially pointed.

Provenance

• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Apr. 2006.
   
• Displayed by Sam Fogg Ltd. in Ink and Gold: Masterpieces of Islamic Calligraphy, at the Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin, July-Aug. 2006.
   
• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015.
   

Subjects topical

• Compasses (Mathematical instruments)
• Astronomical instruments
• Astrolabes--Early works to 1800
• Astrolabes
• Astronomical instruments--Early works to 1800
• Compasses (Mathematical instruments)--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 13th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• codices (bound manuscripts)
• diagrams
• treatises
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Annotations (Provenance)

Keywords

• Treatise
• 13th century
• Arabic
• Diagrams
• Astronomy

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 3r — Diagram, f. 3r
• fol. 4v — Diagram, f. 4v
• fol. 5r — Diagram, f. 5r
• fol. 5v — Diagram, f. 5v
• fol. 6v — Diagram, f. 6v
• fol. 7r — Diagram, f. 7r
• fol. 7v — Diagram, f. 7v
• fol. 8r — Diagram, f. 8r
• fol. 8v — Diagram, f. 8v
• fol. 9r — Diagram, f. 9r
• fol. 9v — Diagram, f. 9v
• fol. 10v — Diagram, f. 10v
• fol. 11r — Diagram, f. 11r
• fol. 11v — Diagram, f. 11v
• fol. 12r — Diagram, f. 12r
• fol. 13r — Diagram, f. 13r
• fol. 13v — Diagram, f. 13v
• fol. 14v — Diagram, f. 14v
• fol. 15r — Diagram, f. 15r
• fol. 16v — Diagram, f. 16v
• fol. 17r — Diagram, f. 17r
• fol. 17v — Diagram, f. 17v
• fol. 18r — Diagram, f. 18r
• fol. 19r — Diagram, f. 19r
• fol. 20r — Diagram, f. 20r
• fol. 21v — Diagram, f. 21v
• fol. 22v — Diagram, f. 22v
• fol. 23r — Diagram, f. 23r
• fol. 24r — Diagram, f. 24r
• fol. 24v — Diagram, f. 24v
• fol. 25r — Diagram, f. 25r
• fol. 27v — Diagram, f. 27v
• fol. 28r — Diagram, f. 28r
• fol. 28v — Diagram, f. 28v
• fol. 29v — Diagram, f. 29v
• fol. 30r — Diagram, f. 30r
• fol. 31r — Diagram, f. 31r
• fol. 31v — Diagram, f. 31v
• fol. 32r — Diagram, f. 32r
• fol. 32v — Diagram, f. 32v
• fol. 33v — Table, f. 33v
• fol. 34v — Diagram, f. 34v
• fol. 37r — Diagram, f. 37r
• fol. 39v — Diagram, f. 39v
• fol. 40v — Diagram, f. 40v
• fol. 41r — Diagram, f. 41r
• fol. 41v — Diagram, f. 41v
• fol. 42r — Diagram, f. 42r
• fol. 43v — Diagram, f. 43v
• fol. 44v — Diagram, f. 44v
• fol. 47v — Diagram, f. 47v
• fol. 48v — Diagram, f. 48v
• fol. 50r — Diagram, f. 50r
• fol. 50v — Diagram, f. 50v
• fol. 51r — Diagram, f. 51r
• fol. 52r — Diagram, f. 52r
• fol. 52v — Diagram, f. 52v
• fol. 53r — Diagram, f. 53r
• fol. 53v — Diagram, f. 53v
• fol. 54r — Diagram, f. 54r
• fol. 54v — Diagram, f. 54v
• fol. 55v — Diagram, f. 55v
• fol. 56r — Diagram, f. 56r
• fol. 56v — Diagram, f. 56v
• fol. 57r — Diagram, f. 57r
• fol. 57v — Diagram, f. 57v
• fol. 58r — Diagram, f. 58r
• fol. 58v — Diagram, f. 58v
• fol. 59r — Diagram, f. 59r
• fol. 59v — Diagram, f. 59v
• fol. 60r — Diagram, f. 60r
• fol. 62r — Diagram, f. 62r
• fol. 62v — Diagram, f. 62v
• fol. 63v — Diagram, f. 63v
• fol. 64v — Diagram, f. 64v
• fol. 65v — Diagram, f. 65v
• fol. 66v — Diagram, f. 66v
• fol. 67r — Diagram, f. 67r
• fol. 69v — Diagram, f. 69v
• fol. 70r — Diagram, f. 70r
• fol. 70v — Diagram, f. 70v
• fol. 71r — Diagram, f. 71r
• fol. 71v — Diagram, f. 71v
• fol. 72v — Diagram, f. 72v
• fol. 73r — Diagram, f. 73r
• fol. 78v — Diagram, f. 78v