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Subject(s)

• Astrology [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on astrology which is a translation from various works, consisting of a muqaddimah, twelve miftāḥ, and a khātimah (listed on fol. 6a-9a).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 5b and fore edge.
• Dedicated to Muḥammad Shāh Qājār (fol. 5b).
• Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black by two hands on machine-made paper. Rubrication and catchwords; spaces left for diagrams but not filled in. A few marginal notes. Some damp staining, mainly marginal, but text blurred on some leaves. Text is on fol. 2b-61a and is incomplete at end; notes on inner covers and fol. 1a-1b.
• Origin: According to Āghā Buzurg (Dharīʻah, XXI, 356), the author completed the text on 14 Rabīʻ II 1231 H [14 March 1816].
• Incipit: افتتاح کتاب آغاز خطاب و کلامىکه رز مطالع طباىع متکلمان آفتاب خبر طالع [...] مستنىر از انوار و لوامع گرداند

Binding note

Full black leather with simple blind-tooled geometric design and blind-stamped fillets; orange paper doublures. Front cover detached.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Stamp on fol. 61b dated 1315 H [1897 or 8]; smudged owner's stamp on fol. 2b.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), XXI, 356 (no. 5439)

OCLC

776196199

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