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

Title

Risālah dar hayʼat.
[رساله در هيئت]

Authors

• Qūshjī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, -1474 or 1475
  قوشجي، علي بن محمد،

Other related names

• Singh, Rājah Rāī Harbans, scribe
  سنکه، راجه راى هربنس.
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 325
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13806439
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1090643604
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_325.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13806439

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1792

Place

India?

Summary

Copy of al-Qūshjī's short work on astronomy with some diagrams in red.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Kabīkaj invocation (f. 66v).
   

Extent

66 foliated leaves : 220 x 150 (165 x 100) mm, bound to 230 x 160 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Quarter covers with light blue paper sides over card.

Layout

11 long lines.

Decoration

Chapter headings and diagrams in red ink.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

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

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• Inside Front Cover — Bookplate: "David Eugene Smith"
• fol. 2r — Diagram
• fol. 2v — Diagrams
• fol. 3r — Diagrams
• fol. 6v — Diagram
• fol. 16v — Diagrams
• fol. 17r — Diagrams
• fol. 22r — Diagram
• fol. 24r — Diagrams
• fol. 26v — Diagram
• fol. 27r — Diagram
• fol. 33v — Diagram
• fol. 35v — Diagram
• fol. 41v — Diagram
• fol. 49r — Diagram
• fol. 51r — Diagram
• fol. 51v — Diagram
• fol. 63v — Diagram
• fol. 66v — Diagram
• fol. 66v — Kabīkaj invocation