Details

Subject(s)

• Astronomy—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Former owner

• Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dawlah [Browse]
• محمد ناصر الدولة، [Browse]
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J. [Browse]

Summary note

Astronomical textbook arranged in two chapters with an introduction; five diagrams.

Notes

• Binding: Red leather over card, blind-tooled frame; light blue paper doublure.
• Collation: Paper, i + 19 + ii.
• Decoration: 4 diagrams in red ink (f. 3v-5r), 1 diagram in black ink (f. 18r); rubrications in red.
• Layout: Written in 21 long lines.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: Copy completed on 29 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 786 (29 May 1384, colophon, f. 19v).
• Script: Written in nastaʻlīq script.
• Some notations on the first flyleaf and f. 1r; stamp on f. 1r and 19v (mostly effaced).
• Title supplied by cataloger.

Location of originals

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

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
• Formerly owned by Muḥammad ibn [?] Nāṣir al-Dawlah, A.H. 1246? (1830-1831, seal imprint, f. 1r, 19v).
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
• Sold by Sam Fogg Limited, cat. 22 (July 2000), numbers 60, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.

References

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), pages 55 (LJS 388).

Cite as

UPenn LJS 388.

OCLC

122647490

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