Description of Columbia University. MS Or 51: Sharḥ-i bīst bāb. Columbia University. These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 51: Sharḥ-i bīst bāb. 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 51: Sharḥ-i bīst bāb.. 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 from added title (f. 1r). Persian customs stamp dated 1312/1934 (f. 1r, [98]v). New York, NY. 10027 Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 51 14012148 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1107057185 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_051.html https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14012148 Commentary on Birjandī's Bīst bāb dar taqvīm, a short treatise on chronology and the computation of almanacs; some tables have been ruled, but left unfilled. Persian Sharḥ-i bīst bāb. شرح بيست باب Gunābādī, Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad Qāsim, -1621 or 1622 گنابادى، مظفر بن محمد قاسم، former owner Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 1v Sharḥ-i bīst bāb

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 ii, 99, ii leaves : 200 x 108 (155 x 60) mm, bound to 200 x 105 mm 21 long lines with marginalia, geometrical shapes and tables. Written in rapid nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed. Rubrications in two shades of red; tables and geometrical shapes in red and black. Customs stamp Diagram Table Diagram Diagram Table Table Empty table Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Table Empty table Empty table Table Table Diagram Diagram Empty table Empty table Empty table Empty table Empty table Table Table Table Table Customs stamp

Red leather over pasteboard with faint, blind-tooled frame; stencilled paper doublures with a large, central motif of blue flowers with green leaves and stems on a bright purple ground surrounded by a wide border composed of green vines and edges with blue parallel line in-fill.

Copy completed in Rajab 1201 AH (f. 97r).

1786 Iran? Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934. Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800 Astrology, Arab--Early works to 1800 Islamic astronomy--Early works to 1800 Islamic calendar--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Persian Codices (bound manuscripts) Commentaries Diagrams Manuscripts (documents) Tables (documents)