Description of Columbia University MS Or 11: Dar maʻrifat-i taqvīm mushtamil bar sī faṣl.

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Copy of a treatise on different calendars and how to convert them one to another and the revolution of heavenly bodies and their impact on different days of the year.

Persian Dar maʻrifat-i taqvīm mushtamil bar sī faṣl. در معرفت تقويم مشتمل بر سى فصل Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد، former owner Qummī, Taqī ibn ʻAlī قمى، تقى بن على، former owner Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 1v Dar maʻrifat-i taqvīm mushtamil bar sī faṣl.

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iv, 31 foliated leaves : 200 x 112 (140 x 65) mm, bound to 205 x 120 mm Chiefly written in 17-19 long; tables. Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed. Numerous astronomical tables, chiefly in red ink; geometrical figures. Signature Notations Stamps Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Diagram Diagram Table Diagram Table Diagram Table Table Table Table Table Diagram Table Table Diagram Diagram Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Diagram Table Table Table Table Diagram Table Table Table Table Signature

Half covers with marbled sides and red leather corners and spine.

The work is dated 775 AH, but it is was likely produced later than that, perhaps in the 17th or 18th century.

16--?-17--? Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934. Formerly owned by Taqī ibn ʻAlī al-Qummī (note and stamp with same name dated 1271 AH (1854 or 1855 CE), f. 1r). Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith (signature, third flyleaf recto at front of book and third flyleaf verso at back of book). Astronomy--Islamic countries--History--Early works to 1800 Islamic calendar--Early works to 1800 Astrology, Arab--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York Codices (bound manuscripts) Manuscripts (documents) Stamps (Provenance) Annotations (Provenance)