Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic New Year—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Calendar, Chinese—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Astrology—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1243 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• diagrams [Browse]

Contains

• Maḥmūd ibn Masʻūd. Nawrūzīyah. [Browse]
• محمود بن مسعود. نوروزية. [Browse]
• Gunābādī, Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad Qāsim, -1621 or 1622. Tanbīhāt al-munajjimīn. [Browse]
• گنابادي، مظفر بن محمد قاسم، -1621 or 1622. تنبيهات المنجمين. [Browse]
• Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad, active 14th century-15th century. Laṭāyif al-kirām fī aḥkām al-aʻvām. [Browse]
• حسينى، محمد، active 14th century-15th century. لطايف الکرام فى احکام الاعوام. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of texts on astrology, the Islamic New Year, and the Chinese calendar.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Description: Rubrication and catchwords. Fol. 207b-209a blank. Light staining. In excellent condition.
• Origin: Text 4 dated 9 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1069 H [29 July 1659] (fol. 286b); other texts likely completed around the same time.
• Incipit: [نوروزية] بدانکه اين رساله ايست از مؤلفات جالينوس ثانى عماد الدين محمود نور الله ... در باب اعمال روز نوروز و شرح فصلت آن مشتمل بر مقدمه و هشت مقال -- [احکام سال ترکان] اين رساله ايست در شناختن احکام سال ترکان که چگونه نگاه دارند در حدود ختن و قبا ميراث دارند -- [تنبيهات المنجمين] شكر و ستايش مالک الملکى را که بنظر شفقت و مرحمت -- [لطايف الکرام] چنين گويد محرر اين سواد اضعف العباد محمد الهسين المدعو بسيد منجم

Binding note

Full golden brown leather with blind-tooled fillets.

Language note

Persian;

Script

Nastaʻlīq.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b-12b: [Nawrūzīyah] / Jālīnūs Thānī Ḥakīm ʻImād al-Dīn Maḥmūd Nūr Allāh. Short treatise on acts of worship to be performed for the Islamic New Year; consists of a muqaddimah and eight maqālah.
• 2. fol. 12b-15a: Aḥkām-i sāl-i Turkān. Treatise on the Chinese zodiac calendar.
• 3. fol. 15b-207a: [Tanbīhāt al-munajjimīn] / Ibn Muḥammad Qāsim Munajjim Muẓaffar. Treatise on astrology, dedicated to Shāh ʻAbbās I [r. 1587-1629] and divided into a muqaddimah, six bāb, and a khātimah.
• 4. fol. 209b-286b: Laṭāyif al-kirām fī aḥkām al-aʻvām / Muḥammad al-Husayn al-madʻū bi-Sayyid Munajjim. Treatise on astrology, illustrated with charts on fol. 275a-277a.

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Provenance

Smudged owner's stamps on fol. 1a. Note dated 1287 H on fol. 287b.

References

• Fihrīst-i kitābkhānah-ʼi Majlis-i Shūrā-yi Millī (1933-), IX, 322-326.
• Storey, C. A. Persian literature, II, 88, II, 65-66.

Other title(s)

• Aḥkām-i sāl-i Turkān.
• احکام سال ترکان.
• Laṭāʼif al-kirām fī aḥkām al-aʻwām.
• لطائف الكرام في احكام الاعوام.

OCLC

798564159

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