Description of Columbia University MS Or 26: Two works on astronomy in Persian Columbia University These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 26: Two works on astronomy in Persian 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 26: Two works on astronomy in Persian. 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 provided by the cataloger. Persian customs stamps solar dated 1312 A.H. (f. 1r, 135v). Owner's note with stamp dated 1281 A.H. (1864 CE) New York, NY. 10027 Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 26 15309768 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1237690187 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_026.html https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/15309768 Two texts on calendars copied together in the same hand. The first is a commentary on al-Birjandī's Bīst bāb dar taqvīm, followed by a copy of Dar maʻrifat-i taqvīm mushtamil bar sī faṣl by al-Ṭūsī. Persian Two works on astronomy in Persian Gunābādī, Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad Qāsim, -1621 or 1622 گنابادى، مظفر بن محمد قاسم، Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 طوسى، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد، scribe Sayyid ʻAbd al-Taqī ibn Mīrzā ʻAbd al-Samīʻ al-Ḥusaynī al-Mūsavī al-Shīrāzī, active 1828 سيد عبد التقى بن ميرزا عبد السميع الحسينى الموسوى الشيرازى، former owner Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 1v Sharḥ-i Bīst bāb 111v Dar maʻrifat-i taqvīm mushtamil bar sī faṣl.

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 112 unfoliated leaves : 215 x 150 (160 x 90) mm, bound to 215 x 150 mm Chiefly written in 19 long lines; some marginalia. Written in nastaʻlīq influenced naskh in black ink; pointed. Tables and diagrams in red and black; overlinining in red. Stamp Notations in ink Table Table Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Table Table Table Diagram Diagram Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Diagram Table Table Diagram Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Table Table Diagram Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table

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Copy completed in 1244 AH (1828 CE) by Sayyid ʻAbd al-Taqī ibn Mīrzā ʻAbd al-Samīʻ al-Ḥusaynī al-Mūsavī al-Shīrāzī (f. 111r, 135r).

1828 Iran? Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934. Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn,--active 16th century--Bīst bāb dar taqvīm Islamic calendar--Early works to 1800 Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800 Astrology, Arab--Early works to 1800 Islamic astronomy--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York Codices (bound manuscripts) Commentaries Diagrams Manuscripts (documents) Marginalia (annotations) Annotations (Provenance) Stamps (Provenance)