Details

Subject(s)

• Astrolabes—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Astronomy—Islamic countries—History [Browse]
• Geography, Arab—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian [Browse]

Former owner

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 [Browse]

Related name

• Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) [Browse]

Summary note

A treatise on astrolabe and its uses in astronomical geography, calendars, and time keeping.

Notes

• Decoration: Rubrications in red.
• Layout: 15 long lines.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: Copy completed in Rabīʻ al-Thānī 698 (f. 22r).
• Script: Written in informal taʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
• Shelfmark: MS Or 10.
• Three stamps (f. 1r).
• Title from introduction (f. 1v).

Location of originals

• Original Columbia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• OPenn University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Source of description

Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description.

Binding note

Three-quarter covers with red leather and marbled paper sides; matching marbled paper endpapers.

Language note

Persian.

Source acquisition

Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Other format(s)

Also available as a digital facsimile.

OCLC

1135069133

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