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.
Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah (Jaghmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad).

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic.
Manuscripts, 15th century.
Manuscripts, 16th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Commentaries.
Diagrams.
Early works.
Codices.

Language:

Arabic.

Summary:

Commentary on Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Jighmīnī's Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah with extensive marginal commentary.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from introduction (f. 2v).
Foliation: Paper, i (modern) + 62 + i (modern); [1-62], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.
Layout: Written in 21 long lines.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq script, with marginal notes in many different hands.
Decoration: Numerous diagrams in text in red; some diagrams in black ink in marginal notes; overlining and selected words in red.
Binding: Modern quarter leather.
Origin: Written in Persia, now Iran, possibly in the 15th or 16th century.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Ownership stamp (f. 61v).
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.
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. 56 (LJS 410).

Cited as:

LJS 410.

Contributor:

Aga Khan, Sadruddin, Prince, 1933-2003, former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

155903236

Web link:

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