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

Title

Mukhtaṣar-i Bīst dar maʻrifat-i usṭurlāb.
مختصر بيست در معرفت اسطرلاب

Authors

• Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274
  طوسى، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد،

Other related names

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

Call number

MS Or 10
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14442615
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1135069133
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_010.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14442615

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1299

Place

Iran?

Summary

A treatise on astrolabe and its uses in astronomical geography, calendars, and time keeping.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 1v).
   
• Three stamps (f. 1r).
   

Extent

23 unfoliated leaves: 205 x 125 (155 x 80) mm, bound to 210 x 135 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Three-quarter covers with red leather and marbled paper sides; matching marbled paper endpapers.

Layout

15 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in informal taʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Islamic countries--History
• Astrolabes--Early works to 1800
• Geography, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Stamps (Provenance)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Mukhtaṣar-i Bīst dar maʻrifat-i usṭurlāb.

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Stamps