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

Title

Risālah dar hayʼat. Sharḥ-i Risālah dar hayʼat.
رساله در هيئت. ]شرح رساله در هيئت[

Authors

• Qūshjī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, -1474 or 1475
  قوشجي، علي بن محمد،
• Muṣliḥ al-Dīn al-Lārī, Muḥammad ibn Ṣalāḥ, -1571 or 1572
  مصلح الدين اللارى، محمد بن صلاح، 1571- يا 1572

Other related names

• Plimpton, George A. 1855-1936, former owner

Call number

MS Or 298
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13720584
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1085517576
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_298.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13720584

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

17--?-18--?

Place

Turkey?

Summary

An astronomical treatise by al-Qūshjī and a commentary on it by Muṣliḥ al-Dīn al-Lārī, copied together. A leaf (f. [23]) may have been removed. In the commentary, source-text is overlined in red.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title of first work from introduction to second work (f. [22v]) and title from second work from added title in later hand (f. [1r]).
   

Extent

85 foliated leaves : 200 x 130 (148 x 70) mm, bound to 201 x 130 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Paper over pasteboard with flap. Marbed green and blue sides and flap with green patterned frame. Spine repaired in red textile.

Layout

27 lines with some marginalia. Opening page pricked and ruled in dry point.

Decoration

Rubrications in red. Astronomical diagrams in red and black.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed, unvocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936.
   
• Formerly owned by George Arthur Plimpton (bookplate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Islamic countries--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts
• Full covers
• Envelope flaps (features)

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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Decorations

• Inside Front Cover — Bookplate: "George A. Plimpton"
• fol. 2r — Diagrams
• fol. 3r — Diagram: planetary orbits
• fol. 5v — Diagram: sun's orbit
• fol. 6r — Diagram: moon's orbit
• fol. 6r — Diagram: Mercury's orbit
• fol. 6r — Diagram: planets with Venus
• fol. 7v — Diagram
• fol. 8r — Diagram
• fol. 8r — Diagram
• fol. 9r — Diagram
• fol. 9r — Diagram
• fol. 11r — Diagram
• fol. 12r — Diagram
• fol. 13v — Diagram
• fol. 16r — Diagram
• fol. 16v — Diagram
• fol. 17r — Diagram
• fol. 17r — Diagram
• fol. 26v — Diagram
• fol. 26v — Diagram
• fol. 27v — Diagram
• fol. 28r — Diagram