Details

Subject(s)

• Astrolabes—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Astronomical instruments—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Astronomy, Arab—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Former owner

• Aga Khan, Sadruddin, Prince, 1933-2003 [Browse]

Contains

• Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, approximately 820-approximately 912. Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-kurah. Selections. [Browse]
• قسطا بن لوقا، approximately 820-approximately 912. رسالة في العمل بالكرة. Selections. [Browse]
• ʻAlī al-Riyāḍī al-Munajjim, active 1543. Fī rasm al-asṭurlāb. Selections. [Browse]
• علي الرياضي المنجم، active 1543. في رسم الاسطرلاب. Selections. [Browse]

Summary note

Four treatises on astrolabes and astronomy, the first and fourth treatise are incomplete; the first treatise skips from chapter 22 to chapter 30 (f. 5-6) and the fourth treatise is missing some amount of the beginning, the first complete section is "taṣtīḥ dāʼirat al-ufuq" (f. 14r).

Notes

• Binding: Marbled paper in bright yellow, blue, pink, and green with title and date in black ink on front cover; bound as a pamphlet.
• Collation: Paper, 18; 1¹⁸; no foliation marked on leaves.
• Collective title supplied by cataloger; titles of individual works from caption titles.
• Decoration: 9 astronomical diagrams (f. 14v, 15r, 16r-18v) in red and black ink; titles in green ink; significant words or phrases in red or green ink.
• Layout: Written in 27 long lines; no catchwords.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: Written in Cairo in A.H. Ṣafar 950 (May-June 1453) by ʻAlī al-Riyāḍī al-Munajjim (f. 1r, 10v, 18v, upper cover).
• Script: Written in naskh influenced by nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed, with titles in a larger naskh in red and green ink; pointed.

Location of originals

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

Language note

Arabic.

Contents

• 1. F.1V-10V: Risālah Fī Al-ʻamal Bi-Al-Kurah [Incomplete] / Qusṭā Ibn Lūqā
• 2. F.11R-12R: Risālat Kaifīyat Al-Arṣād Wa-ʻamāl Dhāt Al-Ḥalaq
• 3. F.12V-13V: Al-ʻamal Bi-Al-Asṭurlāb Al-Kurī Wa-ʻajāʼibih
• 4. 14R-18V: Fī Rasm Al-Asṭurlāb [Incomplete] / ʻalī Al-Riyāḍī Al-Munajjim

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Provenance

• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
• Formerly owned by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan; sold at auction as part of his collection at Piasa (Paris), 7 June 1999, lot N.3.
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 1 June 1987, lot 138.
• Sold by Sam Fogg Limited (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2001.

References

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), pages 54 (LJS 412).

Cite as

LJS 412.

Other title(s)

• Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-kurah wa-sāʼirih.
• رسالة في العمل بالكرة وسائره.
• Risālat kaifīyat al-arṣād.
• رسالة كيفية الارصاد.
• ʻAmal bi-al-asṭurlāb al-kurī wa-ʻajāʼibih.
• عمل بالاسطرلاب الكري وعجائبه.

OCLC

792897354

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