Defective copy of Qushjī's astronomical treatise, illustrated with colored diagrams; the first few leaves are missing, and the text ends with bāb 11 of maqālah 2, although the last bāb (labeled "khātimah") has been added in the margins by a different hand. The text is followed by a chart on fol. 29a and a fihrist for Ṭūsī's Bīst bāb on fol. 29b.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in shikastah in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; diagrams in yellow, green, orange, and maroon. Some marginal notes. Light staining. Incomplete at beginning.
Origin: Copy completed 1218 H [1803 or 4] (fol. 28b).
Binding note
Limp orange leather with blind-tooled and stamped fillets; yellow paper doublures.
Language note
Persian.
Provenance
On fol. 1a, note dated 1370 [shamsī?].
References
Storey, C. A. Persian literature, II, 76
OCLC
798825987
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