Details

Subjects:

Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Almagest.
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.
Almagest (Ptolemy).

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic.
Manuscripts, 15th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Commentaries.
Diagrams.
Tables (documents)
Early works.

Language:

Arabic.

Summary:

Niẓām al-Dīn al-Nīsābūrī's commentary on Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī's recension of Ptolemy's Almagest. A leaf is likely missing after the first leaf.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, 213 + i. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
Layout: Written in 29 long lines.
Script: Written in a naskh script by Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥasan (colophon, f. 213r).
Decoration: Large astronomical diagram in black ink on iridescent ground (f. 156r); numerous small astronomical diagrams and a few tables (f. 18v-19v) in red ink, some diagrams with additions in gold; a few rubrications in gold, though they end close to the beginning of the text, and blank spaces have been left; overlining in red.
Binding: Dark brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind-stamped mandorla on covers and flap; plain paper doublure.
Origin: Possibly written in Persia, now Iran, dated 13 Dhū al-Qaʻdah, A.H. 813 (18 March 1411, colophon, f. 213r).
Several effaced owner's stamps (f. 1r).

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Yāsīn ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Siṭrābī (?) (f. 1r).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Nov. 2000.
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. 54-55 (LJS 392).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 392.

Contributor:

Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274.
Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥasan, active 1411, scribe.
Siṭrābī, Yāsīn ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb, former owner.
Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد، 1201-1274.
محمد بن الحسين الحسن، active 1411, scribe.
سطرابي، ياسين بن عبد الوهاب، former owner.

Related Work:

Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274. Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī.
طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد، 1201-1274. تحرير المجسطي.

OCLC:

122490959

Web link:

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