Details

Subjects:

Geography.
Islamic astrology.
Islamic countries.
Islamic astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Islamic countries -- Geography.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Persian.
Manuscripts, 16th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Almanacs.
Diagrams.
Tables (documents)
World maps.

Language:

Persian.

Summary:

Tables used in an astrological technique for determining auspicious times for carrying out various activities. Also includes geographical illustrations and diagrams and half of a horoscope diagram for a location in northern Afghanistan dated Friday, 27 Shawwāl 912 (12 March 1507).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 7; [1-7]; modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.
Layout: Textblock border-ruled in gold with vertical margins extended to upper edge of the page.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed, with headings in naskh script.
Decoration: 6 colored diagrams (eastern half of a double-page world map, f. 1r; structure and arrangement of seven climatic zones, f. 2v; geographical relationship of various cities to Mecca, f. 3r; rainbow predictions, f. 4v; setting and rising of the moon, f. 5r; half of a double-page horoscope diagram, f. 7v) and 8 decorated tables (ikhtiyārāt for the days of the solar month, f. 1v-2r; ikhtiyārāt for the lunar mansions, f. 3v-4r; ikhtiyārāt for the moon in one of the zodiacal signs, f. 5v-6r); marginal ruling in gold; significant words or numbers in red or green ink.
Binding: 19th-century light brown leather with faded, gold-tooled frame.
Origin: Written in the Timurid Empire in eastern Persia, now Iran, ca. 1507 (based on date of horoscope diagram, f. 7v).

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2002.
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. 78 (LJS 434).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 434.

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

792957720

Web link:

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