Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts New Series no. 1713

Metadata

DS ID:

DS14482

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts New Series no. 1713

Title:

Treatises on astronomy

Place:

Mecca

Mecca TGN

Date:

1846

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Ottoman Turkish

Ottoman Turkish WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iii, 67 leaves : paper ; 210 x 148 (125 x 64) mm bound to 210 x 150 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by the cataloger.
A list of books in the same hand in red ink on fol. iiia (dated Muḥarram 1263 (Dec. 1846-Jan. 1847)).
Layout: 15 lines per page.
Description: All texts written in the same hand in a medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red in texts 2 and 3, and blue and green in text 1. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper with watermarks.
Origin: Copied by Seyit el-Hac Mustafa Nurî in Mekka in 1262 (1846) -- colophon text 2 (fol. 40a) and colophon text 3 (fol. 57a), the latter also containing the date of completion: the last night of R (Rabīʻ al-Thānī or Rajab).

Keyword:

Watermarks

New Jersey--Princeton

Astronomy

Islamic countries

Astrolabes

Horology

Turkey

Manuscripts, Turkish

Islamic Empire

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9953363053506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University