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

Title

Kitāb-i Ṣuwar al-kawākib.
کتاب صور الکواکب

Authors

• Ṣūfī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar, 903-986
  صوفي، عبد الرحمن بن عمر،

Other related names

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

Call number

MS Or 442
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14326381
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1121086297
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_442.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14326381

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

17--?-18--?

Place

India?

Summary

Lacunose copy of an illustrated Persian translation of a book of astronomy, mostly focused on the constellations; constellation illustrations from two sides have been transferred by pounce and are sometimes not completely inked or painted (see f. 52v, for example). Others have been outlined by pricking (see f. 58 lower illustrations, for example).

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Owner's note and stamp (f. 1r).
   

Extent

Vi + 130 + vii foliated leaves : 237 x 167 (180 x 110) mm, bound to 237 x 167 mm

Support

Non-European laid paper

Layout

23 lines per page and occasional tables of variable dimensions.

Decoration

65 illustrations of constellations, often in color; numerous tables in red and black; rubrications in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Manuscripts (documents)
• Early works
• Stamps (Provenance)

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 10r — Table
• fol. 12r — Illustration
• fol. 13r — Table
• fol. 13v — Table
• fol. 15v — Illustration
• fol. 16r — Illustration
• fol. 16v — Table
• fol. 17r — Table
• fol. 18r — Illustration
• fol. 18v — Illustration
• fol. 18v — Table
• fol. 19r — Table
• fol. 20v — Illustration
• fol. 21r — Illustration
• fol. 21v — Table
• fol. 22v — Table
• fol. 24v — Illustration
• fol. 25r — Illustration
• fol. 25v — Table
• fol. 26v — Illustration
• fol. 26v — Table
• fol. 29r — Illustration
• fol. 29v — Table
• fol. 31r — Illustration
• fol. 31v — Illustration
• fol. 31v — Table
• fol. 32r — Table
• fol. 34r — Illustration
• fol. 34v — Illustration
• fol. 35r — Table
• fol. 35v — Table
• fol. 37r — Illustration
• fol. 37v — Illustration
• fol. 38r — Table
• fol. 41v — Illustration
• fol. 42r — Illustration
• fol. 42v — Table
• fol. 43r — Table
• fol. 43v — Drawing
• Unnumbered verso — Illustration
• fol. 44r — Table
• fol. 45v — Illustration
• fol. 46r — Table
• fol. 46v — Illustration
• fol. 47r — Table
• fol. 47v — Illustration
• fol. 47v — Table
• fol. 49r — Illustration
• fol. 49v — Illustration
• fol. 50r — Table
• fol. 52r — Illustration
• fol. 52v — Illustration
• fol. 53r — Table
• fol. 56r — Table
• fol. 58r — Illustration
• fol. 58v — Illustration
• fol. 58v — Table
• fol. 59r — Table
• fol. 62v — Illustration
• fol. 63r — Table
• fol. 66r — Illustration
• fol. 66v — Illustration
• fol. 67r — Table
• fol. 68v — Illustration
• fol. 69r — Table
• fol. 71v — Illustration
• fol. 72r — Illustration
• fol. 72v — Table
• fol. 73r — Table
• fol. 75v — Illustration
• fol. 76r — Table
• fol. 78r — Illustration
• fol. 78v — Table
• fol. 80v — Illustration
• fol. 81r — Illustration
• fol. 81v — Table
• fol. 84v — Illustration
• fol. 85r — Illustration
• fol. 85v — Table
• fol. 88r — Table
• fol. 92r — Illustration
• fol. 92v — Illustration
• fol. 93r — Table
• fol. 93v — Table
• fol. 96r — Illustration
• fol. 96v — Illustration
• fol. 97r — Table
• fol. 97v — Table
• fol. 99v — Illustration
• fol. 100r — Illustration
• fol. 100v — Table
• fol. 103r — Illustration
• fol. 103v — Illustration
• fol. 104r — Table
• fol. 104v — Table
• fol. 106v — Illustration
• fol. 107r — Illustration
• fol. 107v — Table
• fol. 108r — Table
• fol. 108v — Illustration
• fol. 109r — Illustration
• fol. 112r — Table
• fol. 112v — Illustration
• fol. 113r — Illustration
• fol. 113r — Table
• fol. 116v — Illustration
• fol. 117r — Illustration
• fol. 117v — Table
• fol. 118r — Table
• fol. 120v — Illustration
• fol. 121r — Illustration
• fol. 121v — Table
• fol. 122r — Table
• fol. 122v — Illustration
• fol. 122v — Table
• fol. 127r — Illustration
• fol. 127v — Illustration
• fol. 128r — Table
• fol. 128v — Table
• fol. 131r — Illustration
• fol. 131v — Table
• fol. 132v — Illustration
• fol. 129v — Illustration
• fol. 130r — Table