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

Title

Sharḥ-i bīst bāb.
شرح بيست باب

Authors

• Gunābādī, Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad Qāsim, -1621 or 1622
  گنابادى، مظفر بن محمد قاسم،

Other related names

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

Call number

MS Or 51
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14012148
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1107057185
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_051.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14012148

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1786

Place

Iran?

Summary

Commentary on Birjandī's Bīst bāb dar taqvīm, a short treatise on chronology and the computation of almanacs; some tables have been ruled, but left unfilled.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from added title (f. 1r).
   
• Persian customs stamp dated 1312/1934 (f. 1r, [98]v).
   

Extent

Ii, 99, ii leaves : 200 x 108 (155 x 60) mm, bound to 200 x 105 mm

Support

Laid paper

Binding

Red leather over pasteboard with faint, blind-tooled frame; stencilled paper doublures with a large, central motif of blue flowers with green leaves and stems on a bright purple ground surrounded by a wide border composed of green vines and edges with blue parallel line in-fill.

Layout

21 long lines with marginalia, geometrical shapes and tables.

Decoration

Rubrications in two shades of red; tables and geometrical shapes in red and black.

Script

Written in rapid nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Astrology, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Islamic astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Islamic calendar--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Sharḥ-i bīst bāb

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Customs stamp
• fol. 3r — Diagram
• fol. 4v — Table
• fol. 7v — Diagram
• fol. 8r — Diagram
• fol. 8v — Table
• fol. 9r — Table
• fol. 10r — Empty table
• fol. 14v — Diagram
• fol. 20r — Diagram
• fol. 21r — Diagram
• fol. 22r — Diagram
• fol. 27r — Diagram
• fol. 27v — Diagram
• fol. 32r — Diagram
• fol. 40r — Diagram
• fol. 44r — Table
• fol. 44v — Empty table
• fol. 45r — Empty table
• fol. 52r — Table
• fol. 53v — Table
• fol. 66v — Diagram
• fol. 72r — Diagram
• fol. 72v — Empty table
• fol. 73r — Empty table
• fol. 73v — Empty table
• fol. 74r — Empty table
• fol. 74v — Empty table
• fol. 80r — Table
• fol. 81r — Table
• fol. 81v — Table
• fol. 90v — Table