Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts New Series no. 777

Metadata

DS ID:

DS13505

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts New Series no. 777

Title:

Miftāḥ al-nujūm

Author:

Nīshāpūrī, ʻAlī Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ, 19th century / نىشاپورى، على محمد بن محمد صالح، 19th century

ʻAlī Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Nīshāpūrī WIKIDATA

Date:

between 1850 and 1897

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 87 leaves : paper ; 207 x 137 (140-160 x 73-101) mm. bound to 207 x 138 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 5b and fore edge.
Dedicated to Muḥammad Shāh Qājār (fol. 5b).
Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black by two hands on machine-made paper. Rubrication and catchwords; spaces left for diagrams but not filled in. A few marginal notes. Some damp staining, mainly marginal, but text blurred on some leaves. Text is on fol. 2b-61a and is incomplete at end; notes on inner covers and fol. 1a-1b.
Origin: According to Āghā Buzurg (Dharīʻah, XXI, 356), the author completed the text on 14 Rabīʻ II 1231 H [14 March 1816].
Stamp on fol. 61b dated 1315 H [1897 or 8]; smudged owner's stamp on fol. 2b.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Persian

Astrology

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9969749343506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University