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Title

Chand risālah dar ḥisāb va hayʼāt.
چند رساله در حساب و هيئات

Authors

• Qūshjī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, -1474 or 1475
  قوشجى، على بن محمد،
• ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621
  عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين،
• Qūshjī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, -1474 or 1475
  قوشجى، على بن محمد،
• Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274
  طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد،
• Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274
  طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد،
• Yazdī, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Aḥmad
  يزدى، ابو القاسم بن احمد

Other related names

• Schaefler, Sam, former owner
• Mīrzā, Muḥammad Valī, 1789-1864, dedicatee
  ميرزا، محمد ولى،

Call number

MS Or 462
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14380115
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1126811918
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_462.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14380115

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1575-1824

Place

Iran

Summary

Compostite manuscript written in at least three hands and on more than one type of paper containing eight treatises on astronomy and arithmetic with an introduction; diagrams within and between the works. Some of the works are dedicated to Muḥammad Valī Mīrzā, the third son of Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh Qajar (see for example, f. 171v, 279r).

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Titles supplied from table of contents pasted into front inside cover or from caption titles.
   

Extent

278 leaves : 200 x 140 mm, bound to 200 x 140 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in reddish leather over pasteboard; gold tooled frame; black doublure.

Layout

Various layouts, but chiefly written 14-17 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications chiefly in red with a few in brown; numerous diagrams in red, black, and brown; some tables in red and black.

Script

Chiefly written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed; some marginalia in shikastah and some quotations in naskh.

Provenance

• Gift of Sam Schaefler (library bookplate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Islamic countries--History
• Astronomical instruments--Early works to 1800
• Arithmetic--Early works to 1800
• Geometry--Islamic countries--History
• Compasses (Mathematical instruments)
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 3v — [On the names of the Solar months]
• fol. 5r — [Introduction]
• fol. 6v — Hayʼāt-i Fārsī
• fol. 47v — Ṣūrat-i tazāyud-i irtifāʻ bar sabīl-i tanāquḍ va tanāquḍ bar sabīl-i tazāyud
• fol. 48v — Haftād bāb dar usṭurlāb
• fol. 80v — Istikshāf āz rāyhā-yi tāzah-i ḥakīmān-i Farang
• fol. 98v — [Astronomical tables]
• fol. 99v — Ḥisāb-i Fārsī
• fol. 140v — Dar ānchih tābiʻ-i masāḥat
• fol. 172v — Risālah-i muʻīnīyah
• fol. 256v — [Sharḥ-i Risālah-i muʻīnīyah]
• fol. 278v — Risālah dar maʻrifat-i quṭbʹnamā

Decorations

• fol. 3r — Notations
• fol. 7r — Diagrams
• fol. 7v — Diagrams
• fol. 8v — Diagram
• fol. 9v — Diagram
• fol. 14v — Diagram
• fol. 15r — Diagrams
• fol. 15v — Diagram
• fol. 18r — Diagram
• fol. 19v — Diagrams
• fol. 21v — Diagrams
• fol. 26r — Diagram
• fol. 27v — Diagram
• fol. 30v — Diagram
• fol. 35v — Diagram
• fol. 36r — Diagram
• fol. 37r — Diagram
• fol. 37v — Diagram
• fol. 43r — Table
• fol. 45r — Diagram
• fol. 47v — Diagram
• fol. 61v — Table
• fol. 66v — Diagram
• fol. 67r — Diagram
• fol. 71v — Diagram
• fol. 98v — Table
• fol. 99r — Tables
• fol. 104r — Table
• fol. 106r — Table
• fol. 107r — Tables
• fol. 108v — Table
• fol. 109r — Table
• fol. 111r — Table
• fol. 111v — Tables
• fol. 123r — Table
• fol. 124v — Table
• fol. 125r — Table
• fol. 125v — Tables
• fol. 127v — Table
• fol. 128r — Tables
• fol. 128v — Table
• fol. 134v — Diagram
• fol. 135v — Diagrams
• fol. 136r — Diagrams
• fol. 140v — Diagram
• fol. 144r — Diagram
• fol. 175v — Diagram
• fol. 181v — Diagram
• fol. 192r — Diagram
• fol. 198r — Diagram
• fol. 198v — Diagram
• fol. 203v — Diagram
• fol. 207r — Diagram
• fol. 207v — Diagram
• fol. 211r — Diagram
• fol. 213r — Diagrams
• fol. 216r — Diagram
• fol. 217r — Diagram
• fol. 218r — Diagram
• fol. 218v — Diagram
• fol. 226v — Diagram
• fol. 236r — Diagram
• fol. 260r — Diagram
• fol. 261v — Diagram
• fol. 262r — Diagram
• fol. 262v — Diagrams
• fol. 263r — Diagram
• fol. 264r — Diagram
• fol. 265r — Diagram
• fol. 266r — Diagram
• fol. 266v — Diagram
• fol. 269r — Diagram
• fol. 270r — Diagram
• fol. 271v — Diagram
• fol. 272v — Diagrams
• fol. 273r — Diagram
• fol. 273v — Diagram
• fol. 275r — Diagram
• fol. 276v — Diagram
• fol. 277v — Diagrams
• fol. 278r — Diagram