Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Sharḥ-i Zīj-i Sulṭānī.
شرح زيج سلطانى

Authors

• Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, active 16th century
  برجندى، عبد العلى بن محمد بن حسين،

Other related names

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 3
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 15310829
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1237712184
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_003.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/15310829

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1686

Place

Iran?

Summary

Commentary on the Zīj-i jadīd-i Sulṭānī which comprises tables of calendar calculations, trigonometry, planets, and stars. Space has been left for some missing diagrams and others have been tipped in.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from colophon (f. 182r).
   
• Persian customs stamps solar dated 1312 (1933 CE) (f. [0]r, 182v); note in black ink f. 182v.
   

Extent

183 leaves : 230 x 180 (180 x 115) mm, bound to 240 x 185 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Brown leather over pasteboard (Type III) with blind stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and three narrow frame rules; plain paper doublure.

Layout

Written in 23 lines per page.

Decoration

Diagrams in red; overlining and rubrications in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink, pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   
• Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith (signature in pencil, f. 182v).
   

Subjects topical

• Ulugh Beg,--1394-1449--Zīj-i jadīd-i Sultānī
• Astronomy, Arab--Tables--Early works to 1800
• Islamic calendar
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Commentaries
• diagrams
• manuscripts (documents)
• Blind tooled (decoration)

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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