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

Title

Sharḥ-i ṣad kalimah-i Baṭlamiyūs.
شرح صد کلمه بطلمىوس

Authors

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

Other related names

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner
• Ptolemy, active 2nd century, attributed name
• Ṣāḥibdād, Sayyid ʻImād al-Dīn ibn Sayyid Mubārak, scribe
  صاحب‌داد، سيد عماد الدىن بن سيد مبارک.

Call number

MS Or 15
(New York, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13560673
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1056625888
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_015.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13560673

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Persian with Arabic source-text

Origin

Date

between 1650 and 1799?

Place

India?

Summary

Translation and commentary on a treatise attributed to Ptolemy of a collection of 100 aphorisms about astrology. Arabic text with its translation in Persian and commentary in Persian.

Notes

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

Extent

28 foliated leaves : 250 x 160 (185 x 95) mm, bound to 255 x 170 mm

Support

Paper

Layout

23-26 long lines with some marginalia; extensive repairs to leaves.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed, unvocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Astrology, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

• Codices
• Translations (documents)
• Manuscripts

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Sharḥ-i ṣad Kalima-i Baṭlamiyūs

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Inscription in English