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

Title

Kitāb-i Surkhāb dar ʻilm-i raml.
کتاب سرخاب در علم رمل

Authors

• Surkhāb
  سرخاب

Other related names

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

Call number

MS Or 39
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13554097
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1055768434
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_039.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13554097

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1528

Summary

On geomancy; stated to be transmitted from sayings of the prophet Daniel (f. 2r); numerous tables and inserts.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from note on f. 1r.
   

Extent

63 foliated leaves : 225 x 155 (175 x 110) mm

Foliation

Foliated in Hindu-Arabic numerals, upper left recto; catchwords most versos, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Not bound, loose in Western paper wrapper.

Layout

17 long lines with extensive marginalia and numerous tables.

Decoration

Headings, geomantic symbols, and overlines in red; tables in red and black.

Script

Written in taʻlīq in black ink.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Geomancy--Islamic countries--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

• Manuscripts
• Codices
• Tables (documents)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Kitāb-i Surkhāb dar ʻilm-i raml

Decorations

• fol. 3r — Table
• Unnumbered recto — Table
• Unnumbered verso — Table
• fol. 9r — Table
• fol. 9v — Table
• fol. 10r — Table
• fol. 10v — Table
• Unnumbered recto — Table
• Unnumbered verso — Table
• fol. 14r — Table
• fol. 14v — Diagram
• fol. 16r — Table
• fol. 17r — Table
• fol. 17v — Table
• fol. 18r — Table
• fol. 45r — Diagram
• fol. 45v — Table
• fol. 46r — Table
• fol. 46v — Table
• fol. 47r — Table
• fol. 47v — Table