Details

Standardized Title:

Sharḥ al-Jaghmīnī
شرح الجغميني http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00072201

Subjects:

Jaghmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, -1221? Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah.
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.
Jaghmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, -1221?.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic.
Manuscripts, 15th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Annotations.
Commentaries.
Diagrams.
Stamps (Provenance)
Early works.

Language:

Arabic, with some Persian.

Biography/History:

Second director of the observatory established in Samarqand in 1420 under the patronage of governor and astronomer Ulugh Beg.

Summary:

Ms. codex.
Commentary on the Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah, written in the 12th century by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Jighmīnī. Numerous marginal annotations by the copyist.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, i + 65 + i; 1⁸ (first leaf flyleaf) 2⁸( -1) 3-8⁸ 9⁴ (last leaf flyleaf); no foliation. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
Layout: Written in 21 long lines.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq script in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: 23 astronomical diagrams in red and black ink; headings and overlinings in red.
Binding: Bound in light brown leather over pasteboard, gilt-tooled mostly rubbed, central 6-pointed star in a circle with dots in and around the star centered between two sets of rectangles, double frame; inside covers have block-stamped pattern.
Origin: Written in Samarqand, Uzbekistan, dated A.H. 830 (end of Ramadan; July 1427) (f. 64v-65r).

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Ḥaydar ibn Shāhī Hamdānī (ownership inscription and stamp without date, f. 65r, same stamp on f. 1r).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2001.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 56 (LJS 408).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 408.

Contributor:

Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449, dedicatee.
Hamdānī, Ḥaydar ibn Shāhī, former owner.
Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
همداني، حيدر بن شاهي، former owner.

OCLC:

818192814

Web link:

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