A treatise on theoretical astronomy arranged in a muqaddimah, two maqālahs and a khātimah. The muqaddimah has two sections, the first maqālah has six chapters and the second maqālah has eleven chapters. Includes several diagrams.
Notes
Pages 1, 2, 43, 44, and 63 bear owner's stamp dated 1365 H.
Colophon from p. 63.
Title page and p. 64-67 contain notes and inscriptions in various hands.
Scribe identified on t.p. as Muḥammad Saʻīd ibn Mirzā Ḍiyāʾ of Isfahān.
On p. 2 of cover: Kitāb Fārsī-i Hayʾat. Persian astronomical text.
At top of p. 2: Hūwa al-Mutaʾālī.
Ms. in nastaliq on glazed paper. 18.8 x 12.6 cm. Title, headings, keywords, some interlinear corrections and notes and some diagrams in red ink. Text unvocalized. Catchwords. One small leaf with a diagram tipped inbetween p. 15 and 16. Considerable textual emendations and marginalia in several hands.
Paper is glazed laid stock, handmade. Paper repairs to several edges. Water stains throughout. Some smudging. Edges frayed.
Binding is recent. Brown cloth over pasteboard.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين حمد الشاكرين والصلوة على خير خلقه محمد وآله اجمعين. اما بعد اين رساله مشملت بريك مقدمه ودو مقاله وخاتمه ...
Explicit: ... واصغر جرم ثوابت بر صوره بيست وسه سرابر رمين است والله اعلم بالصواب...
Colophon: ... كان فراقى من سواد هذا الكتاب ٣ شهر رمضان المبارك ١٠٣٤ هجريه وانا العبد سليمان [ابن احمد؟] [بافشونى دار اصفهان ؟] تمت بالخير.
Provenance
AM 1993-164. Gift of Bruce C. Willsie (Princeton Class of 1986).
Other format(s)
Published edition available. Lithograph, 18--?
Other title(s)
Fārsī-i hayʾat
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OCLC
123012992
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