Details

Subjects:

Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Diagrams.
Manuscripts, Arabic.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

Arabic.

Summary:

Astronomical textbook arranged in two chapters with an introduction; five diagrams.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, i + 19 + ii.
Layout: Written in 21 long lines.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq script.
Decoration: 4 diagrams in red ink (f. 3v-5r), 1 diagram in black ink (f. 18r); rubrications in red.
Binding: Red leather over card, blind-tooled frame; light blue paper doublure.
Origin: Copy completed on 29 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 786 (29 May 1384, colophon, f. 19v).

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Muḥammad ibn [?] Nāṣir al-Dawlah, A.H. 1246 (1830-1831, Qajar seal imprint, f. 1r, 19v).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd., cat. 22 (July 2000), no. 60, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 55 (LJS 388).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 388.

Contributor:

Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dawlah, former owner.
Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
محمد ناصر الدولة, ǂe former owner.

OCLC:

752209716

Web link:

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