Details

Other Title:

رسالة فيها ملحة من معرفة سميت المقبلة.

Subjects:

Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Persian.
Manuscripts, Arabic.
Manuscripts, 15th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Diagrams.
Tables (documents)
Treatises.
Compilation manuscripts.
Stamps (Provenance)
Annotations (Provenance)

Language:

Persian and Arabic.

Summary:

Two treatises on astrology bound together.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from introduction (f. 1v).
Foliation: Paper, i + 103 + i; 1-95, [96-103], later foliation in ink, upper left recto, end of manuscript (f. 96-103) not foliated.
Layout: Written in 15 (f. 1v-95r) and 19-20 (f. 96v-100v) long lines.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed, by at least 2 hands (f. 1v-95r, 96v-103r).
Decoration: 7 astronomical diagrams (f. 97r-101r) in red and black ink; 2 of another type of diagram in red and black ink (f. 82r, 83r); tables in red and black ink (f. 83v-84v, 101v-103r); rubrications and overlining in red.
Binding: Light brown leather over pasteboard with marbled paper sides.
Origin: First text dated 11 Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 852 A.H. (June 1448 CE) (f. 95r); the second work is undated.
Ownership stamps and inscriptions (f. 1r).

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Muḥammad Dhará, the timekeeper at the mosque of Sulṭān Muḥammad Khān (note in ink, f. 1r).
Formerly owned by al-Ḥājj Muṣṭafá Ṣidqī, 1790? (stamp, f. 1r).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 2004.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 72 (LJS 466).

Cited as:

LJS 466.

Contributor:

Muḥammad Dhará, former owner.
Mustafa Sıdkı, -1769, former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
محمد ذرى، former owner.
مصطفى صدقي، -1769, former owner.

Contains:

Risālah fīhā mulḥah min maʻrifah sumīyat al-muqbilah.
رسالة فيها ملحة من معرفة سميت المقبلة.

OCLC:

122647491

Web link:

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