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Subject(s)

• Jaghmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad -1221?—Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah [Browse]
• جغميني، محمود بن محمد، -1221؟—ملخص في الهيئة [Browse]
• Astronomy—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Dedicatee

Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449 [Browse]

Former owner

• Hamdānī, Ḥaydar ibn Shāhī [Browse]
• همداني، حيدر بن شاهي، [Browse]
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J. [Browse]

Biographical/​Historical note

Second director of the observatory established in Samarqand in 1420 under the patronage of governor and astronomer Ulugh Beg.

Summary note

• Commentary on the Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah, written in the 12th century by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Jighmīnī. Numerous marginal annotations by the copyist.
• Ms. codex.

Notes

• Binding: Bound in light brown leather over pasteboard, gilt-tooled, mostly rubbed central 6-pointed star in a circle with dots in and around the star centered between two sets of rectangles, double frame; inside covers have block-stamped pattern.
• Collation: Paper, i + 65 + i; 1⁸ (first leaf flyleaf) 2⁸( -1) 3-8⁸ 9⁴ (last leaf flyleaf); no foliation. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
• Decoration: 23 astronomical diagrams in red and black ink; headings and overlinings in red.
• Layout: Written in 21 long lines.
• Origin: Written in Samarqand, Uzbekistan, dated A.H. 830 (end of Ramadan; July 1427) (f. 64v-65r).
• Script: Written in nastaʻlīq script.
• Title supplied by cataloger.

Location of originals

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

Language note

Arabic, with some Persian.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Ḥaydar ibn Shāhī Hamdānī (ownership inscription and stamp without date, f. 65r, same stamp on f. 1r).
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
• 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 56 (LJS 408).

Cite as

UPenn LJS 408.

OCLC

818192814

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