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Title

al-Tuḥfah al-shāhīyah fī al-hayʼah.
التحفة الشاهية في الهيئة

Authors

• Quṭb al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʻūd, 1236 or 1237-1310 or 1311
  قطب الشيرازي، محمود بن مسعود،

Other related names

• Iṣfahānī, Ṣ̣adr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Kamāl al-Dīn, scribe
  اصفهاني، صدر الدين محمد بن كمال الدين.
• Īrawānī, Qāsim, former owner
  ايرواني، قاسم.

Call number

Ms. Codex 1900
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977459940303681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1083523100

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 960 (1553)

Place

Iran?

Summary

Treatise on astronomy in four chapters, written for the wazīr Amīr Shāh Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣadr al-Saʻīd Tāj al-Dīn Muʻtazz ibn Ṭāhir (Kashf al-ẓunūn, ed. Fluegel, vol. 2, p. 229, with the title of each of the four chapters).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 2r).
   

Extent

164 leaves : 215 x 125 (135 x 65) mm bound to 218 x 120 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left. Some contemporary pagination in Hindu-Arabic numerals in black pen, upper outer corners (1-50 only). References in the record are to the modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Brown leather covers over pasteboard with black textile spine; thin leather doublure; blind stamped mandorla with gold tooled outline on outside covers with gold tooled pendants, and frame.

Layout

19 long lines; frame ruled.

Decoration

Rubrications in red. Numerous diagrams in red and black (f. 3r, 4v, 7r, 8r-8v, 14r, 22v, 25v, 26v, 31v, 33v, 34v, 35v, 36v, 37v-38v, 40v, 42v, 44r, 52v, 56v-57r, 62v, 65r, 70r, 70v-71v, 73r, 74r-74v, 75v, 79v, 81v, 83v, 87r-87v, 92v-93r [diagram across full opening], 93v, 99r, 101v-102r, 103v, 104v, 106r-107r, 124r, 127r-128r, 133v, 135r, 144v, 147v, 151r-152r, 153r-153v, 159r).

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq; pointed, unvocalized.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Qāsim al-Īrawānī (owner's note and stamp, f. 1r).
   
• Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts, Arabic--16th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — al-Tuḥfah al-shāhīyah fī al-hayʼah.

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Owner's notes and stamps
• fol. 2v — Diagram
• fol. 3r — Diagram
• fol. 4v — Diagram
• fol. 7r — Diagram
• fol. 8r — Diagram
• fol. 8v — Diagram
• fol. 14r — Diagram
• fol. 22v — Diagram
• fol. 25v — Diagram
• fol. 26v — Diagram
• fol. 31v — Diagram
• fol. 33v — Diagram
• fol. 34v — Diagram
• fol. 35v — Diagram
• fol. 36r — Diagram
• fol. 37v — Diagram
• fol. 38r — Diagram
• fol. 38v — Diagram
• fol. 40v — Diagram
• fol. 42v — Diagram
• fol. 44r — Diagram
• fol. 52v — Diagram
• fol. 56v — Diagram
• fol. 57r — Diagram
• fol. 62v — Diagram
• fol. 65r — Diagram
• fol. 70r — Diagram
• fol. 70v — Diagram
• fol. 71r — Diagram
• fol. 71v — Diagram
• fol. 73r — Diagram
• fol. 74r — Diagram
• fol. 74v — Diagram
• fol. 75v — Diagram
• fol. 79v — Diagram
• fol. 81v — Diagram
• fol. 83v — Diagram
• fol. 87r — Diagram
• fol. 87v — Diagram
• fol. 92v — Diagram covering full page-opening
• fol. 93r — Diagram covering full page-opening
• fol. 93v — Diagram
• fol. 99r — Diagram
• fol. 101v — Diagram
• fol. 102r — Diagram
• fol. 103v — Diagram
• fol. 104v — Diagram
• fol. 106r — Diagram
• fol. 106v — Diagram
• fol. 107r — Diagram
• fol. 124r — Diagram
• fol. 127r — Diagram
• fol. 127v — Diagram
• fol. 128r — Diagram
• fol. 133v — Diagram
• fol. 135r — Diagram
• fol. 144v — Diagram
• fol. 147v — Diagram
• fol. 151r — Diagram
• fol. 151v — Diagram
• fol. 152r — Diagram
• fol. 153r — Diagram
• fol. 153v — Diagram
• fol. 159r — Diagram
• fol. 159v — Diagram