Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 3168Y

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DS ID:

DS29156

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 3168Y

Title:

Majmūʻah fīhi Maqālat Qusṭā ibn Lūqā al-Yūnānī fī al-ʻamal fī al-kurah al-falakīyah [wa-] Risālah fī al-kurah al-musammāh bi-dhāt al-kursī / مجموعة فيه مقالة قسطا بن لوقا اليوناني في العمل في الكرة الفلكية و رسالة في الكرة المسماة بذات الكرسي

Author:

Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, approximately 820-approximately 912 / قسطا بن لوقا

Qusta ibn Luqa WIKIDATA

Date:

between 17--? and 18--?].

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 18, i leaves : paper ; 207 x 154 (180 x 100) mm. bound to 207 x 154 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from modern note on fol. 2a. The title of Text 1 appears in the beginning of the text as "al-ʻAmal bi-al-kurah al-falakīyah" (fol. 2b).
25 lines per page. Written in clear medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. European glazed paper with watermark. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (counts the first fly-leaf as fol. 1). Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "751/2 ḥāʼ". Inscription in pencil in Arabic script on the first fly-leaf (fol. 1a): "Thālith 149".
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Celestial globes

Early works

Astronomical instruments

Astronomy, Arab

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9949676243506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/38d5ff56-35c9-401c-a45b-184dea446e8d/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University