Details

Subject(s)

• Astronomy—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Former owner

• Muḥammad Dhará [Browse]
• محمد ذرى، [Browse]
• Muṣṭafá Ṣidqī, active 1790 [Browse]
• مصطفى صدقي، active 1790 [Browse]

Related name

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania) [Browse]

Summary note

Two treatises on astrology bound together.

Notes

• Binding: Light brown leather over pasteboard with marbled paper sides.
• Decoration: 7 astronomical diagrams (f. 97r-101r) in red and black ink; 2 of another type of diagram in red and black ink (f. 82r, 83r); tables in red and black ink (f. 83v-84v, 101v-103r); rubrications and overlining in red.
• Foliation: Paper, i + 103 + i; 1-95, [96-103], later foliation in ink, upper left recto, end of manuscript (f. 96-103) not foliated.
• Layout: Written in 15 (f. 1v-95r) and 19-20 (f. 96v-100v) long lines.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: First text dated 11 Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 852 A.H. (June 1448 CE) (f. 95r); the second work is undated.
• Ownership stamps and inscriptions (f. 1r).
• Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed, by at least 2 hands (f. 1v-95r, 96v-103r).
• Title from introduction (f. 1v).

Location of originals

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

Language note

Persian and Arabic.

Provenance

• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
• Formerly owned by al-Ḥājj Muṣṭafá Ṣidqī, 1790? (stamp, f. 1r).
• Formerly owned by Muḥammad Dhará, the timekeeper at the mosque of Sulṭān Muḥammad Khān (note in ink, f. 1r).
• Sold by Sam Fogg Limited (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 2004.

References

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), pages 72 (LJS 466).

Cite as

LJS 466.

Other title(s)

• Risālah fīhā mulḥah min maʻrifah sumīyat al-muqbilah.
• رسالة فيها ملحة من معرفة سميت المقبلة.

OCLC

122647491

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