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

Title

Two works on astronomy in Persian

Authors

• Gunābādī, Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad Qāsim, -1621 or 1622
  گنابادى، مظفر بن محمد قاسم،
• Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274
  طوسى، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد،

Other related names

• Sayyid ʻAbd al-Taqī ibn Mīrzā ʻAbd al-Samīʻ al-Ḥusaynī al-Mūsavī al-Shīrāzī, active 1828, scribe
  سيد عبد التقى بن ميرزا عبد السميع الحسينى الموسوى الشيرازى،
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 26
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 15309768
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1237690187
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_026.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/15309768

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1828

Place

Iran?

Summary

Two texts on calendars copied together in the same hand. The first is a commentary on al-Birjandī's Bīst bāb dar taqvīm, followed by a copy of Dar maʻrifat-i taqvīm mushtamil bar sī faṣl by al-Ṭūsī.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title provided by the cataloger.
   
• Persian customs stamps solar dated 1312 A.H. (f. 1r, 135v). Owner's note with stamp dated 1281 A.H. (1864 CE)
   

Extent

112 unfoliated leaves : 215 x 150 (160 x 90) mm, bound to 215 x 150 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Plain black leather over pasteboard.

Layout

Chiefly written in 19 long lines; some marginalia.

Decoration

Tables and diagrams in red and black; overlinining in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq influenced naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn,--active 16th century--Bīst bāb dar taqvīm
• Islamic calendar--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Astrology, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Islamic astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Commentaries
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Marginalia (annotations)
• Annotations (Provenance)
• Stamps (Provenance)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Sharḥ-i Bīst bāb
• fol. 111v — Dar maʻrifat-i taqvīm mushtamil bar sī faṣl.

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Stamp
• fol. 1r — Notations in ink
• fol. 8v — Table
• fol. 9r — Table
• fol. 16r — Diagram
• fol. 22v — Diagram
• fol. 24r — Diagram
• fol. 30r — Diagram
• fol. 31r — Diagram
• fol. 36r — Diagram
• fol. 45v — Diagram
• fol. 50r — Table
• fol. 50v — Table
• fol. 61r — Table
• fol. 74v — Diagram
• fol. 75r — Diagram
• fol. 81r — Table
• fol. 81v — Table
• fol. 82r — Table
• fol. 82v — Table
• fol. 83r — Table
• fol. 83v — Table
• fol. 90r — Table
• fol. 91r — Table
• fol. 91v — Table
• fol. 92r — Table
• fol. 92v — Table
• fol. 103r — Table
• fol. 112r — Table
• fol. 113r — Diagram
• fol. 113v — Table
• fol. 114r — Table
• fol. 114v — Diagram
• fol. 115v — Table
• fol. 116r — Table
• fol. 116v — Table
• fol. 117r — Table
• fol. 117v — Table
• fol. 118r — Table
• fol. 118v — Table
• fol. 119r — Table
• fol. 119v — Table
• fol. 120r — Diagram
• fol. 120v — Diagram
• fol. 121r — Diagram
• fol. 122r — Diagram
• fol. 122v — Diagram
• fol. 123r — Diagram
• fol. 123v — Table
• fol. 124r — Table
• fol. 126v — Diagram
• fol. 127r — Table
• fol. 127v — Table
• fol. 128r — Table
• fol. 128v — Table
• fol. 130v — Table
• fol. 131r — Table
• fol. 131v — Table
• fol. 132r — Table
• fol. 132v — Table
• fol. 133r — Table
• fol. 133v — Table
• fol. 134r — Table
• fol. 134v — Table
• fol. 135r — Table