Description of Columbia University MS Or 23: ʻAjīb al-masāʼil. Risālah dar hayʼat. Columbia University These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 23: ʻAjīb al-masāʼil. Risālah dar hayʼat. 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/. 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 23: ʻAjīb al-masāʼil. Risālah dar hayʼat.. 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. Manuscript codex. Title of first work from introduction (f. 3r). Title of second work supplied by cataloger. New York, NY. 10027 Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 23 14568272 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1137728924 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_023.html https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14568272 Composite manuscript with two works. The first on ritual practice with chapters on cleanliness, prayers, fasting, alms giving, pilgrimage, marriage, legal guardianship, and inheritance; the second text an astronomical treatise by ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Qūshjī. Persian ʻAjīb al-masāʼil. Risālah dar hayʼat. عجيب المسائل. [رسالة در هيئت] Qūshjī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, -1474 or 1475 قوشجي، علي بن محمد، scribe Ghulām Muḥyī al-Dīn walad Muḥammad Akram غلام محيى الدين ولد محمد اكرم ، former owner Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 1v ʻAjīb al-masāʼil 50r [Risālah dar hayʼat].

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 ii, 48, 46, ii leaves : 219 x 137 (170 x 80) mm, bound to 224 x 141 mm Written in 14-16 long lines. Written in taʻlīq and nastaʻlīq; pointed. Rubrications in red; some diagrams in red. Bookplate: "David Eugene Smith" Diagrams Diagram Diagram Diagrams Diagrams Diagram Diagram Diagrams Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram

Bound in cardboard with plain paper sides, light brown spine and edges.

The first item is undated, possibly produced in the 17th century, copied by Ghulām Muḥyī al-Dīn walad Muḥammad Akram (f. 48r). The second work is dated Jumādá al-Ūlá 1228 A.H.

16--?, 1813 Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934. Islamic law--Early works to 1800 Astronomy--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York Codices (bound manuscripts) Manuscripts (documents) Diagrams