Details

Subject(s)

• Astronomy, Arab—Tables [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 510H [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• scientific illustrations (images) [Browse]
• tables (documents) [Browse]

Summary note

A compendium of astronomy together with an almanac. The MS contains chapters 33-99; chapters 1-31 and part of 32 are missing.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• A few marginal notes and glosses. With charts and tables. Beginning and end are missing.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 133 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 29 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition.
• Beginning (as extant): التي بين العاشر واقرب الاعتدالين اليه تجد جيب عرض اقليم الرويه ...
• Ending: کح کو لومه

Binding note

Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Yellow paper pastedowns. Poor-fitting cover, probably re-used.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 973.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 557.
• Bibliothecae Bodleianae codicum MSS orientalium, I, 876, II, 275, 278.
• Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 1113/4.
• Rosen, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Institut des langues orientales, 189.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 2522.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 557.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 2522.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

زيج لابن [شاطر؟]

Title from lower edge of text block

• Zīj li-Ibn [Shāṭir?]

OCLC

1341360951

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