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

Title

Three treatises on astronomy and arithmetic

Authors

• Qūshjī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, -1474 or 1475
  قوشجى، على بن محمد،
• Qūshjī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, -1474 or 1475
  قوشجى، على بن محمد،

Other related names

• ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir Qāyinī, active 1619, scribe
  عبد الغني بن عبد القادر قايني،
• Muḥammad Riḍā ibn ʻAbd Allāh, active 1782, former owner
  محمد رضا بن عبد الله،
• Schaefler, Sam, former owner
• Schaefler, Sam, donor

Call number

MS Or 460
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14840144
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1152174899
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_460.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14840144

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1619

Summary

Three treatises on astronomy and arithmetic copied together in the same hand.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Titles supplied by cataloger except for the third work, title from introduction (f. 69v).
   
• Several stamps (f. 61v, 62r, 68r, 68r, 125r).
   

Extent

Ii, 125, iii leaves : 220 x 122 (142 x 60) mm, bound to 220 x 124 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Brown leather (Type III) with gilt-stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis; gold-tooled frame; bright red doublure.

Layout

12 long lines; catchwords every verso, lower left; border-ruled.

Decoration

Numerous diagrams in red and black; textblock border-ruled in blue and gold; rubrications in red; some pages gold sprinkled over textblock.

Script

Written in clear nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Sam Schaefler, November 1981.
   
• Formerly owner by Muḥammad Riḍā ibn ʻAbd Allāh in 1196? AH (1782 CE) (stamps f. 68r, 69r, 125v).
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 460: Three treatises on astronomy and arithmetic are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  To the extent possible under law, Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 460: Three treatises on astronomy and arithmetic. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Three treatises on astronomy and arithmetic].
• fol. 1v — [Risālah dar hayʼat]
• fol. 61v — [Risālah dar z̤arb va qismat]
• fol. 69v — Īn risālah ast dar ʻilm-i ḥisāb

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library bookplate
• Inside front cover — Library donation plate
• fol. 2v — Diagrams
• fol. 3v — Diagrams
• fol. 6r — Diagram
• fol. 13v — Diagrams
• fol. 17v — Diagram
• fol. 19r — Diagram
• fol. 21v — Diagrams
• fol. 28r — Diagram
• fol. 29v — Diagram
• fol. 30v — Diagram
• fol. 35r — Diagram
• fol. 42v — Diagram
• fol. 43v — Diagram
• fol. 44v — Diagram
• fol. 45r — Diagram
• fol. 57r — Diagram
• fol. 60v — Poetry and notations in ink
• fol. 61r — Poetry and notations in ink
• fol. 61v — Stamp
• fol. 62r — Stamp
• fol. 69r — Stamp
• fol. 69v — Stamp
• fol. 76v — Table
• fol. 79r — Table
• fol. 80r — Table
• fol. 86r — Table
• fol. 87r — Table
• fol. 102v — Table
• fol. 118r — Diagrams
• fol. 125r — Stamp
• fol. 125r — Stamp