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

Title

ʻAjīb al-masāʼil. Risālah dar hayʼat.
عجيب المسائل. [رسالة در هيئت]

Authors

• Qūshjī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, -1474 or 1475
  قوشجي، علي بن محمد،

Other related names

• Ghulām Muḥyī al-Dīn walad Muḥammad Akram, scribe
  غلام محيى الدين ولد محمد اكرم ،
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 23
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14568272
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1137728924
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_023.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14568272

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

16--?, 1813

Summary

Composite manuscript with two works. The first on ritual practice with chapters on cleanliness, prayers, fasting, alms giving, pilgrimage, marriage, legal guardianship, and inheritance; the second text an astronomical treatise by ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Qūshjī.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title of first work from introduction (f. 3r). Title of second work supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

Ii, 48, 46, ii leaves : 219 x 137 (170 x 80) mm, bound to 224 x 141 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in cardboard with plain paper sides, light brown spine and edges.

Layout

Written in 14-16 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red; some diagrams in red.

Script

Written in taʻlīq and nastaʻlīq; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Islamic law--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Diagrams

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — ʻAjīb al-masāʼil
• fol. 50r — [Risālah dar hayʼat].
• fol. 50r — [Risālah dar hayʼat].

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate: "David Eugene Smith"
• Insert recto — Diagrams
• Insert verso — Diagram
• fol. 50r — Diagram
• fol. 50r — Diagram
• fol. 55v — Diagrams
• fol. 56r — Diagrams
• fol. 58v — Diagram
• fol. 59v — Diagram
• fol. 61v — Diagrams
• Unnumbered verso — Diagram
• Unnumbered verso — Diagram
• fol. 66r — Diagram
• fol. 69v — Diagram
• fol. 74v — Diagram
• fol. 75v — Diagram
• fol. 76r — Diagram
• fol. 76v — Diagram
• fol. 84v — Diagram