Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 2259Yq

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DS ID:

DS28923

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 2259Yq

Title:

Ṣuwar al-kawākib / صور الكواكب

Ṣuwar al-kawākib

Author:

Ṣūfī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar, 903-986 / صوفي، عبد الرحمن بن عمر

Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi WIKIDATA

Date:

1607

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, ill.

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 44 leaves : paper, ill. ; 305 x 208 (220 x 155) mm. bound to 305 x 230 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
41 lines per page. Written in thick medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Contains drawings. European glazed paper with watermark. Some illustrations are reproduced on a separate piece of paper (see between fol. 7 and 8) or on the opposite blank fol. (see fol. 40b-41a). Between fol. 39 and 40: Original fol. 39bis, cut on the edges, with loss of text. On fol. 1a: Inscription.
According to the colophon, copied on 4 Ramaḍān 1015 (fol. 40b).
Reading statement in the name of Ibrāhīm ibn al-Shaykh Muḥammad, Jumādá al-Ulá 1114 [1702] (fol. 43b). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Keyword:

Atlases

Manuscripts, Arabic

Seventeenth century

New Jersey--Princeton

Constellations--Names

Early works

Astronomy, Arab

Constellations

Pictorial works

Stars--Names

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9948626003506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/12ec4114-ca51-4254-bd80-6bc9f83bc9c9/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University