Description of Columbia University. MS Or 298: Risālah dar hayʼat. Sharḥ-i Risālah dar hayʼat.

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An astronomical treatise by al-Qūshjī and a commentary on it by Muṣliḥ al-Dīn al-Lārī, copied together. A leaf (f. [23]) may have been removed. In the commentary, source-text is overlined in red.

Persian Risālah dar hayʼat. Sharḥ-i Risālah dar hayʼat. رساله در هيئت. ]شرح رساله در هيئت[ Qūshjī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, -1474 or 1475 قوشجي، علي بن محمد، Muṣliḥ al-Dīn al-Lārī, Muḥammad ibn Ṣalāḥ, -1571 or 1572 مصلح الدين اللارى، محمد بن صلاح، 1571- يا 1572 former owner Plimpton, George A. 1855-1936 [1v] Risālah dar hayʼat. [22v] [Sharḥ-i Risālah dar hayʼat].

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85 foliated leaves : 200 x 130 (148 x 70) mm, bound to 201 x 130 mm 27 lines with some marginalia. Opening page pricked and ruled in dry point. Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed, unvocalized. Rubrications in red. Astronomical diagrams in red and black. Bookplate: "George A. Plimpton" Owner's stamp and notation: al-Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAṭāʾ Allah Owner's stamp: al-Sayyid Aḥmad Ḥasan Diagrams Diagrams Diagram: planetary orbits Diagram: sun's orbit Diagram: moon's orbit Diagram: Mercury's orbit Diagram: planets with Venus Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram

Paper over pasteboard with flap. Marbed green and blue sides and flap with green patterned frame. Spine repaired in red textile.

Item is undated. Likely copied in the 18th or 19th century.

17--?-18--? Turkey? Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936. Formerly owned by George Arthur Plimpton (bookplate inside front cover). Astronomy--Islamic countries--Early works to 1800 Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York Codices Diagrams Manuscripts Full covers Envelope flaps (features)