Description of Columbia University MS Or 442: Kitāb-i Ṣuwar al-kawākib. Columbia University These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 442: Kitāb-i Ṣuwar al-kawākib. 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 442: Kitāb-i Ṣuwar al-kawākib.. 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. Owner's note and stamp (f. 1r). New York, NY. 10027 Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 442 14326381 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1121086297 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_442.html https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14326381 Lacunose copy of an illustrated Persian translation of a book of astronomy, mostly focused on the constellations; constellation illustrations from two sides have been transferred by pounce and are sometimes not completely inked or painted (see f. 52v, for example). Others have been outlined by pricking (see f. 58 lower illustrations, for example). Persian Kitāb-i Ṣuwar al-kawākib. کتاب صور الکواکب Ṣūfī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar, 903-986 صوفي، عبد الرحمن بن عمر، former owner Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 [1r] Kitāb-i Ṣuwar al-kawākib.

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 vi + 130 + vii foliated leaves : 237 x 167 (180 x 110) mm, bound to 237 x 167 mm 23 lines per page and occasional tables of variable dimensions. Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed. 65 illustrations of constellations, often in color; numerous tables in red and black; rubrications in red. Stamp Table Illustration Table Table Illustration Illustration Table Table Illustration Illustration Table Table Illustration Illustration Table Table Illustration Illustration Table Illustration Table Illustration Table Illustration Illustration Table Table Illustration Illustration Table Table Illustration Illustration Table Illustration Illustration Table Table Drawing Illustration Table Illustration Table Illustration Table Illustration Table Illustration Illustration Table Illustration Illustration Table Table Illustration Illustration Table Table Illustration Table Illustration Illustration Table Illustration Table Illustration Illustration Table Table Illustration Table Illustration Table Illustration Illustration Table Illustration Illustration Table Table Illustration Illustration Table Table Illustration Illustration Table Table Illustration Illustration Table Illustration Illustration Table Table Illustration Illustration Table Table Illustration Illustration Table Illustration Illustration Table Illustration Illustration Table Table Illustration Illustration Table Table Illustration Table Illustration Illustration Table Table Illustration Table Illustration Illustration Table

The item is undated; probably copied in the 18th or 19th century.

17--?-18--? India? Astronomy--Early works to 1800 Islamic astronomy--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Persian Manuscripts (documents) Early works Stamps (Provenance)