Details

Subjects:

Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Persian.
Manuscripts, 16th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Anthologies.
Diagrams.
Handbooks.
Early works.

Language:

Persian.

Biography/History:

Persian philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, and physician.

Summary:

Collection of astronomical works by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, which include material on sunset and sunrise, the size of the earth, the moon, the distance to the moon, the distance between the sun and the planets, movement of the spheres, and eclipses. Some marginal notes in another hand, affected by trimming.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, i + 77 + i; [1-77], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.
Layout: Written in 21 long lines.
Script: Written in a naskh script by a single hand.
Decoration: 15 astronomical diagrams in red and black; rubrications in red.
Binding: Later red leather over pasteboard; gilt stamped with inlay central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis; spine at the manuscript's top edge, like a notepad.
Origin: Item is undated; perhaps copied in the 16th century.
Paper: Wove paper.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2001.
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 407).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 407.

Contributor:

Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

122597045

Web link:

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