Description of Columbia University MS Or 461: Sharḥ-i Bīst bāb-i usṭurlāb.

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A commentary on the book about the astrolabe by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī; some diagrams and tables; the final leaf is a later replacement.

Persian Sharḥ-i Bīst bāb-i usṭurlāb. [شرح بيست باب اسطرلاب] Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, active 16th century برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين، Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 طوسى، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد، former owner Abū al-Ḥasan Dallāl ابو الحسن دلال، former owner Schaefler, Sam donor Schaefler, Sam 1v [Sharḥ-i Bīst bāb-i usṭurlāb].

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127 foliated leaves, 4 unfoliated leaves : 185 x 125 (130 x 80) mm, bound to 187 x 130 mm 19 long lines. Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed. Rubrications in red; diagrams and tables in red and black. Inscription Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Table Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagrams Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram Diagram

Bound in reddish brown leather over pasteboard with blind-tooled double frame; bright blue pastedowns.

The copy is undated, but a note places it in Iṣfahān in the month of Rajab 1270 A.H. (f. 1r). It was likely copied in the 18th or 19th century.

17--?-1854 Formerly owned by Abū al-Ḥasan Dallāl (?) (note dated 1270 A.H., f. 1r). Gift of Sam Schaefler (library bookplate inside front cover). Astrolabes--Islamic Empire--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Persian Codices (bound manuscripts) Diagrams Manuscripts (documents) Blind tooled (decoration) Annotations (Provenance)