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

Title

Taṣrīḥ fī sharḥ Tashrīḥ al-aflāk.
تصريح في شرح تشريح الافلاك

Authors

• Lāhūrī, Imām al-Dīn ibn Luṭf Allāh
  لاهوري، امام الدين بن لطف الله

Other related names

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

Call number

MS Or 20
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 15309769
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1237690284
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_020.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/15309769

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1800?-1899?

Place

India?

Summary

Copy of a commentary on Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilīʼs treatise on astronomy, Tashrīḥ al-aflāk. Extensive marginalia including some tipped in note pages and notes at the beginning and end. Diagrams are marked by red fore-edge tabs.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from introduction (p. 3).
   

Extent

72 paginated leaves : 227 x 134 (130 x 65) mm, bound to 227 x 134 x 8 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Paper folder used as cover.

Layout

Written in 10 long lines; extensive marginalia.

Decoration

Diagrams in red, blue and black; rubrications in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed. Marginalia in nastaʻlīq; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   
• Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith (stamp on first unnumbered leaf recto).
   

Subjects topical

• ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn,--1547-1621--Tashrīḥ al-aflāk
• Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--Islamic countries--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Commentaries
• diagrams
• manuscripts (documents)
• marginalia (annotations)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Notes
• fol. 2v — Taṣrīḥ fī sharḥ Tashrīḥ al-aflāk.

Decorations

• Front cover — Note describing the ms. pasted in.
• fol. 1r — Stamp: David Eugene Smith
• fol. 12v — Diagram
• fol. 13r — Diagram
• fol. 13v — Diagram
• fol. 14r — Diagram
• fol. 15v — Diagram
• fol. 16r — Diagram
• fol. 23v — Diagram
• fol. 25v — Diagram
• fol. 32r — Diagram
• fol. 33r — Diagram
• fol. 35r — Diagram
• fol. 35v — Diagram
• fol. 36r — Diagram
• fol. 37v — Diagram
• fol. 38r — Diagram
• fol. 41v — Diagram
• fol. 42v — Diagram
• fol. 44v — Diagram
• fol. 45v — Diagram
• fol. 47r — Diagram
• fol. 48r — Diagram
• fol. 51v — Diagram
• fol. 58r — Table
• fol. 62v — Table
• fol. 64r — Diagram
• fol. 65v — Diagram
• fol. 67v — Diagram
• fol. 69r — Diagram
• fol. 69v — Diagram