Details

Other Title:

في استخراج الطالع من السرطان والمطبل.
في حق القمر.

Subjects:

Compasses (Mathematical instruments).
Astronomical instruments.
Astrolabes -- Early works to 1800.
Astrolabes.
Astronomical instruments -- Early works to 1800.
Compasses (Mathematical instruments) -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic.
Manuscripts, 13th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Diagrams.
Treatises.
Stamps (Provenance)
Annotations (Provenance)

Language:

Arabic.

Summary:

Collection of astronomical treatises, the main text of which is al-Bīrūnī's Kitāb fī istīʻāb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣanʻat al-asṭurlāb. This is followed by a short work on crab and drum astrolabes; a treatise on instruments, including one for finding the direction to Mecca; a treatise on the ecliptic; and a treatise on the compass, all copied in the same hand.

Contents:

1. f. 1v-66r: Kitāb fī istīʻāb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣanʻat al-asṭurlāb / Abū Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī
2. f. 66v: Fī istikhrāj al-ṭaliʻ min al-Sarṭān wa-al-Muṭabbal
3. f. 67r-72v: Fī ḥaqq al-qamr
4. f. 73r-75r: Maqālah fī ḥarakat al-iltifāf / Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham
5. f. 76v-86v: Kitāb fī al-ālah allatī samīnā al-birkār al-tāmm / Wayjan ibn Rustam al-Qūhī

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, i + 87 + i; [1-87]; some irregular foliation in ink, upper right verso.
Layout: Written in 21-24 long lines.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; partially pointed.
Decoration: Numerous diagrams in red ink; rubrications in red.
Binding: 13th-century leather, blind-stamped, with replacement flap.
Origin: Copy compled in A.H. Jumādá al-Ākhirah 625 (May 1228) (f. 66r, 86v).
Paper: Laid paper chain lines occasionally visible in sets of two.
Given as a pious endowment (waqf) in 1292 A.H. (note in Persian in ink, f. 1r); several other notes and stamps (f. 1r, 75r), one dated 1120 A.H. (f. 86v).

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Apr. 2006.
Displayed by Sam Fogg Ltd. in Ink and Gold: Masterpieces of Islamic Calligraphy, at the Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin, July-Aug. 2006.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015.
Displayed by Sam Fogg Ltd. in Ink and Gold: Masterpieces of Islamic Calligraphy, at the Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin, July-Aug. 2006.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 53-54 (LJS 478).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 478.

Contributor:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
ابن الهيثم، 965-1039،
قوهي، ويجن بن رستم، approximately 1000،

Contains:

Alhazen, 965-1039. Maqālah fī ḥarakat al-iltifāf.
Qūhī, Wayjan ibn Rustam, -approximately 1000. Fī al-ālah allatī tusammá al-birkār al-tāmm.
Fī istikhrāj al-ṭāliʻ min al-Sarṭān wa-al-Muṭabbal.
Fī ḥaqq al-qamr.
ابن الهيثم، 965-1039، مقالة في حركة الالتفاف.
قوهي، ويجن بن رستم، approximately 1000، في الآلة التي تسمى البركار التام.
في استخراج الطالع من السرطان والمطبل.
في حق القمر.

OCLC:

793019702

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page