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Subject(s)

• Astrolabes—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Astronomical instruments—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Compasses (Mathematical instruments)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Contains

• Alhazen, 965-1039. Maqālah fī ḥarakat al-iltifāf. [Browse]
• ابن الهيثم، 965-1039، مقالة في حركة الالتفاف. [Browse]
• Qūhī, Wayjan ibn Rustam, -approximately 1000. Fī al-ālah allatī tusammá al-birkār al-tāmm. [Browse]
• قوهي، ويجن بن رستم، approximately 1000، في الآلة التي تسمى البركار التام. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of astronomical treatises, the main text of which is al-Bīrūnī's Kitāb fī istīʻāb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣanʻat al-asṭurlāb. This is followed by a short work on crab and drum astrolabes; a treatise on instruments, including one for finding the direction to Mecca; a treatise on the ecliptic; and a treatise on the compass, all copied in the same hand.

Notes

• Binding: 13th-century leather, blind-stamped, with replacement flap.
• Decoration: Numerous diagrams in red ink; rubrications in red.
• Foliation: Paper, i + 87 + i; [1-87]; some irregular foliation in ink, upper right verso.
• Given as a pious endowment (waqf) in 1292 A.H. (note in Persian in ink, f. 1r); several other notes and stamps (f. 1r, 75r), one dated 1120 A.H. (f. 86v).
• Layout: Written in 21-24 long lines.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: Copy compled in A.H. Jumādá al-Ākhirah 625 (May 1228) (f. 66r, 86v).
• Paper: Laid paper chain lines occasionally visible in sets of two.
• Script: Written in naskh in black ink; partially pointed.
• Title supplied by cataloger.

Location of originals

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

Language note

Arabic.

Contents

• 1. F. 1V-66R: Kitāb Fī Istīʻāb Al-Wujūh Al-Mumkinah Fī Ṣanʻat Al-Asṭurlāb / Abū Rayḥān Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad Al-Bīrūnī
• 2. F. 66V: Fī Istikhrāj Al-Ṭaliʻ Min Al-Sarṭān Wa-Al-Muṭabbal
• 3. F. 67R-72V: Fī Ḥaqq Al-Qamr
• 4. F. 73R-75R: Maqālah Fī Ḥarakat Al-Iltifāf / Ḥasan Ibn Al-Haytham
• 5. F. 76V-86V: Kitāb Fī Al-Ālah Allatī Samīnā Al-Birkār Al-Tāmm / Wayjan Ibn Rustam Al-Qūhī

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Provenance

• Displayed by Sam Fogg Limited in Ink and Gold: Masterpieces of Islamic Calligraphy, at the Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin, July-Aug. 2006.
• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015.
• Sold by Sam Fogg Limited (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Apr. 2006.

References

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), pages 53-54 (LJS 478).

Cite as

UPenn LJS 478.

Other title(s)

• Fī istikhrāj al-ṭāliʻ min al-Sarṭān wa-al-Muṭabbal.
• في استخراج الطالع من السرطان والمطبل.
• Fī ḥaqq al-qamr.
• في حق القمر.

OCLC

793019702

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