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Title

Risālah fī al-hayʼah al-falakīyah.
رسالة في الهيئة الفلكية

Authors

• Turkumānī, Kamāl al-Dīn, active 1354
  تركماني، كمال الدين،
• Jighmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, -1221?
  جغميني، محمود بن محمد،

Other related names

• Khuwārizmī, Ḥusām ibn Fakhr al-Dīn, scribe
  خوارزمي، حسام بن فخر الدين.
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 148
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13720573
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1085516703
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_148.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13720573

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1401

Place

Cairo

Summary

Commentary on the astronomy of Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Jighmīnī.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from title added in later hand (f. 1r).
   

Extent

67 pages : 185 x 140 (165 x 115) mm, bound to 185 x 140 mm

Foliation

Pagination in Hindu-Arabic numerals in ink, upper outer corners (1-11), continuing pagination added in pencil, upper outer corners (12-67).

Support

Paper

Binding

Leather spine connected to pasteboard back cover. No front cover.

Layout

25 to 30 lines per page. Written across the entire page with little room left for marginalia.

Decoration

Rubrications in red. Astronomical diagrams (f. 10r, 30r-30v, 60v)

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, unvocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   
• Note in pencil on f. 1r: "Purchased in Beirut 1933. Verified by Dr. Rustem, Librarian".
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices
• Commentaries
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts

Licenses

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Table of contents

• 1 — Risālah fī al-hayʼah al-falakīyah.

Decorations

• 10 — Diagram: planetary orbits