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Subject(s)

• Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad 1201-1274—Tadhkirah fī ʻilm al-hayʾah [Browse]
• Astrolabes—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Astronomy, Arab—Iran—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Calendar, Chinese—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Contains

• Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274. Bīst bāb dar maʻrifat-i asṭurlāb. [Browse]
• طوسى، نصىر الدىن محمد بن محمد، 1201-1274. بىست باب در معرفت اسطرلاب. [Browse]
• Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274. Sī faṣl. [Browse]
• طوسى، نصىر الدىن محمد بن محمد، 1201-1274. سى فصل. [Browse]
• Qūshjī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, d. 1474 or 5. Risālah dar hayʾat. [Browse]
• قوشجى، على بن محمد، d. 1474 or 5. رساله در هيئت. [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of treatises and extracts on astronomical subjects.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Collective title from fol. ia.
• Physical description: 23-25 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black by different hands on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; extensive marginal notes, particularly for text 2. Numerous charts and diagrams; color was likely added at a later date. Bound insert between fol. 27-28. Fol. 34b, 37a blank. Partial table of contents on fol. ia. Repair to last leaf; some foxing and marginal damp staining.
• Incipit (text 2): الحمد لله رب العالمين حمد الشاكرين ... اما بعداين مختصرست در مغرفت اسطرلاب از علامۀ نصىر الدىن الطوسى مشتمل بر بيست باب باب اول در القاب آلات وخطوط ودواير اسطرلاب انجه علاقه
• Incipit (text 7): اين مختصرىست در معرفت تقوىم مشتمل بر سى فصل فصل اول در حساب حمل و اين بر مرتب است
• Incipit (text 11): اين رساله ايست در شناختن سال ترکان در حدود خطا و ختن اعتماد کلى برىن رساله دارند و جهت اين دوازده سال نهاده اند و هر سالى را نامى از نامهاى حىوانات نهاده اند
• Incipit (text 13): الحمد لله رب العالمىن حمد الشاکرىن ... اما بعد اين کتاب مشتملست بر مقدمه و دو مقاله مقدمه در بىان انجه پىش از شروع درىن علم دانستى است

Binding note

Quarter leather with marbled covers; blue pastedowns and green flyleaves.

Language note

Persian and Arabic.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a: [Notes and colored astronomical diagram].
• 2. fol. 1b-16a: Mukhtaṣar dar maʻrifat-i asṭurlāb / az ʻAllāmah-ʾi Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī.
• 3. fol. 16b: Bāb-i maʻrifat-i taqwīm.
• 4. fol. 17a: [Two jadwals]. Grids have been colored various shades of green.
• 5. fol. 17b: [Three bāb on astronomy in Arabic].
• 6. fol. 18a: [Notes].
• 7. fol. 18b-30a: Sī faṣl / lil-Ṭūsī.
• 8. fol. 30b-32a: Min sharḥ al-Tadhkirah. With colored diagrams; in Arabic.
• 9. fol. 32b-33a: Faṣl-i shānazdahum andar taḥvīl-i sāl-i ʻālam. With a jadwal.
• 10. fol. 33b-34a: Faṣl-i navāzdahum dar maʻrifat-i ẓill.
• 11. fol. 35a-35b: Risālah-i sāl-i Turkān. A short treatise on the Chinese zodiac; incomplete at end.
• 12. fol. 36a-36b: [Extract on the movement of the sun]. In Persian.
• 13. fol. 37b-46b: [Risālah dar hayʾat / ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Qushjī]. With colored diagrams.
• 14. fol. 47a: al-Bāb 59 fī maʻrifat al-ẓill al-mabsūṭ wa-al-mankūs min al-irtifāʻ. In Arabic.
• 15. fol. 47b-50b: Kitāb-i duvvum dar ṣifat-i asṭurlāb.

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References

Storey, C. A. Persian literature, II, 52, 57, 76

Other title(s)

• مجموع رسائل في الهيئه
• Risālah-i sāl-i Turkān.
• رساله سال ترکان.

Title from fol. 1a

• Majmūʻ rasāʾil fī al-hayʾah

OCLC

729754507

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