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

Title

Sabʻ samawāt li-sirr samāʼī.
سبع سموات لسر سمائي

Authors

• Fārūqī, Fatḥ Allāh ibn Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAbd al-Shakūr, active approximately 16th century-17th century
  فاروقى، فتح الله بن مصطفى بن عبد الشکور،

Other related names

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

Call number

MS Or 41
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13672993
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1080314357
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_041.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13672993

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1602 or 1603

Place

India?

Summary

Copy of an astrology text for divination. Includes a number of tables.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   

Extent

86 foliated leaves : 235 x 155 (200 x 110) mm, bound to 245 x 160 mm

Foliation

Contemporary Hindu-Arabic foliation in ink, upper center recto, catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Half binding of red leather with marbled paper sides (red, blue, black, white).

Layout

15 long lines.

Decoration

Several tables (f. 3r, 7r, 37r, 37v, 42r-43r, 44v-47r, 50v, 60r, 67r, 70v) and diagrams (f. 25r, 25v, 55r, 76v-77r, 79r).

Script

Written in rapid nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy, Arab--Tables--Early works to 1800
• Astrology, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Divination--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Decorations

• Inside Front Cover — Library note in English
• fol. 3r — Table
• fol. 7r — Table
• fol. 10v — Table
• fol. 13r — Table
• fol. 21v — Table
• fol. 25r — Table
• fol. 25v — Tables
• fol. 37r — Table
• fol. 37v — Table
• fol. 38v — Table
• fol. 42r — Table
• fol. 42v — Table
• fol. 43r — Table
• fol. 44v — Table
• fol. 45r — Table
• fol. 45v — Table
• fol. 46r — Table
• fol. 46v — Table
• fol. 47r — Table
• fol. 50v — Table
• fol. 55r — Table
• fol. 60r — Table
• fol. 67r — Table
• fol. 70v — Table
• fol. 76v — Diagram
• fol. 77r — Diagram
• fol. 79r — Diagram