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Title

Bīst bāb dar ʻilm-i usṭurlāb.
بیست باب در علم اسطرلاب

Other related names

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

Call number

MS Or 48
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13560681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1056625870
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_048.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13560681

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Persian with two pages in Arabic (f. 23r/v)

Origin

Date

1817

Place

Iran?

Summary

Treatise on astrolabes. Likely an abridgement of Bīst bāb dar maʻrifat-i usṭurlāb by Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī (d. 1274). Attribution is uncertain.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from f.1r; alternate title from introduction, but incomplete because of damage to the leaf (f. 1v).
   

Extent

27 paginated leaves : 210 x 146 (150 x 96) mm

Foliation

Pages numbered in ink, upper outer corners. Modern foliation has been added in pencil, upper left recto. References in the record are to the modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Not bound.

Layout

13 long lines with marginalia, geometrical shapes, and tables.

Decoration

Rubrications; 11 drawings and tables (f. 4r-5r, Insert r/v, 24r, 25r, 26r-27r).

Script

Written in nastaʻliq; pointed, unvocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy, Arab--History
• Astrolabes--Early works to 1800
• Astrolabes--Islamic Empire
• Geography, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Tables (documents)
• Manuscripts

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Bīst bāb dar īlm-i usṭurlāb

Decorations

• fol. 4r — Diagram
• fol. 4v — Diagram
• fol. 5r — Diagram
• Insert recto — Table
• Insert verso — Table
• fol. 24r — Table
• fol. 25r — Table
• fol. 26r — Table
• fol. 26v — Table
• fol. 27r — Table