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Subject(s)

• Astrolabes—Islamic countries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Persian poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of texts on the astrolabe, with fawāʾid.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text on fol. 2a.
• On spine: Label reading "Tuḥfah-i Ḥātimī dar ʻilm-i asṭurlāb taʾlīf-i Shaykh Bahāʾī" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Fol. 63-70 on tan glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Charts in red and black. Arabic texts in naskh. Some staining and smudging; a few paper repairs. In good condition.
• Origin: Text 2, Ṣafar 1177 H [August 1763] (fol. 53b).
• Incipit (text 2): الحمد لله ... اما بعد چون درىن ولا خاتر ملکوت ناظر کىمىا
• Incipit (text 3): اندر مدخل قدر کفاىت نجوم اکنون سبب و علت چند ىاد خواهم

Binding note

Limp brown leather.

Language note

Persian and Arabic.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a: [Poems and notes].
• 2. fol. 1b-53b: Tuḥfah-i Ḥātimī. Treatise on the astrolabe, dedicated to Ḥātim Bay, Shāh ʻAbbās I's vazīr. Consists of seventy bāb.
• 3. fol. 53b-68b: Maqālat al-khāmis [sic] fī al-ʻilal wa-al-[a]sbāb. Extract from an unidentified text on the astrolabe; in Persian.
• 4. fol. 68b-69a: [Poems]. In Persian and Arabic.
• 5. fol. 69b-70a: [Selections from the Qurʾān and pious declarations]. In Arabic with interlinear Persian translation in red.
• 6. fol. 70b: [Persian poems].

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References

Storey, C. A. Persian literature, II, 87

Other title(s)

• Qurʼan. Selections
• قرآن.
• Maqālah al-khāmis fī al-ʻilal wa-al-asbāb.
• مقالة الخامس في العلل والاسباب.

Alternate title given by Storey

• Haftād bāb

OCLC

816508627

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