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

Title

Other related names

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

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13560872
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1056627155
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_047.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13560872

Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

Iran?

Summary

On calculations needed to make an astrolabe.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from f. 1r.
   
• Ottoman Turkish couplet on the front binding.
   

Extent

Foliation

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

Headings and overlines in red; 16 diagrams (f. 9r, 10r/v, 11r/v, 12r, 13r/v, 14r, 15v, 16r/v, 17r, 19r/v, 20r) and 3 tables (f. 17v, 18r/v) in red and black.

Script

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   
• Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith (bookplate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Astrolabes--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts
• Diagrams
• Tables (documents)
• Bookplates (Provenance)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Risālah bar usṭurlāb

Decorations

• fol. 9r — Diagram
• fol. 10r — Diagram
• fol. 10v — Diagram
• fol. 11r — Diagram
• fol. 11v — Diagram
• fol. 12r — Diagram
• fol. 13r — Diagram
• fol. 13v — Diagram
• fol. 14r — Diagram
• fol. 15v — Diagram
• fol. 16r — Diagram
• fol. 16v — Diagram
• fol. 17r — Diagram
• fol. 17v — Table
• fol. 18r — Table
• fol. 18v — Table
• fol. 19r — Diagram
• fol. 19v — Diagram
• fol. 20r — Diagram