Details

Other Title:

في احكام خسوف القمر من كلام دانيال النبي.
ذخيرة اسكندر ذو القرنين.
فصل در احکام فرد امرات.

Subjects:

Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. -- Romances.
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
Astrolabes -- Early works to 1800.
Astrolabes.
Astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Astrology.
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.
Horoscopes -- Early works to 1800.
Horoscopes.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Persian.
Manuscripts, 17th century.
Manuscripts, Digital.
codices (bound manuscripts)
compilation manuscripts.
anthologies.
drawings (visual works)
tables (documents)
treatises.
Romances.

Language:

Persian.

Summary:

Collection of astronomical works, including works on the astrolabe, horoscopes, risings and settings of the planets.

Contents:

1. f.1v-20v: Irshād-i usṭurlāb / Nāṣir ibn Ḥaydar ibn Muḥammad al-Shīrāzī
2. f.21r-21v: Fī aḥkām khusūf al-qamr min kalām Dāniyāl al-Nabī
3. f.22r-96v: [Collection of treatises and tables]
4. f.97v-136v: Maṭāliʻʹnāmah / Abū al-Khayr Muḥammad Taqī Fārsī
5. f.137r-157r: Dhakhīrat Iskandar Dhū al-Qarnayn
6. f.157v-160v: [Treatise on a horoscope]
7. f.161r-162r: Faṣl dar aḥkām-i fard-i imrāt
8. f.163r-168v: [On astronomy and the astrolabe]

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, i + 168 + i; [1-168], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.
Layout: Written in varying numbers of long lines.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq by multiple hands in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Ink drawings in the Dhakhīrat Iskandar Dhū al-Qarnayn of an animal, perhaps a jackal (f. 149v), 2 worms with pincers (f. 150v), hybrids of a snake with an animal's head and a person with a snake's tail (f. 151r), a scorpion (f. 151v), a crane (f. 152v), a youth with one hand on his head (f. 153r), and a rougher, sexual drawing of a man and a woman (f. 154v); tables in red and black (f. 41r-107r); significant words or phrases and headings in red throughout.
Binding: Black leather (Type III) with painted gilt borders, stamped with a central mandorla and four pendants on the vertical axis, the middle two pendants bear the name Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad Bāqir; red leather doublure with gold painted central floral cross and frame.
Origin: Some works dated 1081 A.H. (1670 CE), mention they were copied in the madrasah of ʻAlī Jāh Maḥmūd Beg Nāẓir (f. 136v, 157r, 168v), probably in Iṣfahān (f. 136v) in Persia, now Iran.
Three ownership seals (1r, 137r, 157r, 168v).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Iṣfahānī, Muḥarram [1]126? A.H. (note f. 1r, stamps f. 1r-2r, 21r, 22r, 42v, 65v, 137v, 163r, 168v).
Formerly owned by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan; sold at auction as part of his collection at Piasa (Paris), 7 June 1999.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2001.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Ownership seals (f. 1r-2r, 22r, 42v, 65v, 137r, 157r, 168v).
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 61 (LJS 414).

Cited as:

Astrological Compilation (LJS 414). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Contributor:

Iṣfahānī, Muḥammad ʻAlī, active 1714, former owner.
Aga Khan, Sadruddin, Prince, 1933-2003, former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
اصفهاني، محمد علي، active 1714، former owner.
شيرازي، حيدر بن محمد، active 13th century-14th century.
فارسى، تقى الدين محمد بن محمد، active 16th century.

Contains:

Shīrāzī, Ḥaydar ibn Muḥammad, active 13th century-14th century. Irshād-i usṭurlāb.
Fārsī, Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, active 16th century. Maṭāliʻʹnāmah.
Fī aḥkām khusūf al-qamr min kalām Dāniyāl al-Nabī.
Dhakhīrat Iskandar Dhū al-Qarnayn.
Faṣl dar aḥkām-i fard-i imrāt.
شيرازي، حيدر بن محمد، active 13th century-14th century. ارشاد اسطرلاب.
فارسى، تقى الدين محمد بن محمد، active 16th century. مطالع‌نامة.
في احكام خسوف القمر من كلام دانيال النبي.
ذخيرة اسكندر ذو القرنين.
فصل در احکام فرد امرات.

OCLC:

86167208

Web link:

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