Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in small, neat naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Numerous charts and diagrams. Occasional staining and smudging; in excellent condition.
Origin: Text 2, 21 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1031 H [27 September 1622] (fol. 111b). On fol. 93b, the original colophon has been effaced; on fol. 93b, 111b, a note by a different hand indicates that the texts were originally completed in Dhū al-Ḥijjah 912 H [1507], which is later than the date mentioned by Storey for the Sharḥ (899 H = 1493 or 4).
Incipit (text 1): فاتحۀ خطاب در هر باب و خاتمه مقال در همه حال سپاس و ستاىش حکمى سزد
Incipit (text 2): اما بعد اين مختصرىست در صفت اسطرلاب شمالى و جنوبى مشتمل بر بىست باب باب اول در مقدمات صناعيه که معرفت آن در صنعت اسطرلاب ضرورىست
Binding note
Brown leather covers and doublures.
Language note
Persian.
Contents
1. fol. 1b-93b: Kitāb-i Sharḥ-i Bīst bāb dar maʻrifat-i qavāʻid-i fann-i asṭurlāb / ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Birjandī. A commentary on Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī's Bīst bāb dar maʻrifat-i asṭurlāb.
2. fol. 94b-111b: [Bīst bāb dar asṭurlāb / ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Birjandī]. Title and author supplied by cataloger per Markaz-i Dāʼirat al-Maʻārif-i Buzurg-i Islāmī catalog.
Provenance
On fol. 1a, several owner's stamps and notes: note and stamp of Abū Ṭālib al-Ḥusaynī, 1152 H [1739 or 40]; stamp of Muḥammad Muqīm, 1057 H [1647 or 8]; note by Shukr Allāh ibn Maḥmūd al-Ḥusaynī; stamp dated 1097 H [1685 or 6].
Sharḥ-i Bīst bāb dar maʻrifat-i qavāʻid-i fann-i asṭurlāb
شرح بىست باب در معرفت قواعد فن اسطرلاب
OCLC
817653462
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