Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 19

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DS ID:

DS6481

Shelfmark:

MS Or 19

Title:

Panjāh bāb-i sulṭānī bi-ʻilm-i usṭurlāb / پنجاه باب سلطانى بعلم اسطرلاب

Bi-ʻilm-i usṭurlāb

Author:

Āmulī, Rukn ibn Sharaf al-Dīn, active 1456 / آملى، رکن بن شرف الدىن, active 1456

Rukn ibn Sharaf al-Dīn Āmulī WIKIDATA

Place:

Herat

Herat TGN

Date:

between 1750 and 1899?

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, illustrations

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 42 bi-paginated leaves : paper, illustrations ; 200 x 140 (165 x 110) mm, bound to 220 x 150 mm

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Decoration: Section headers and overlines in red. Includes 7 tables: pp. [24], [32], 35, [36], 43, [54], [60], and 4 diagrams: pp. 25, [26], 27, 63.
Layout: 17 lines per page with some marginalia; frame-ruled.
Manuscript codex.
Origin: Likely copied in Herat. The work is written on different types of paper including European laid paper and machine-made paper.
Pagination: Numbers in ink at the top of every other page, number 11 repeats. Catchwords every verso, lower left. References in the record are to the pagination as it appears in the manuscript.
Script: Written in nastaʻliq in black ink.
Shelfmark: MS Or 19.
Title from p. [1] of the manuscript.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

manuscripts (documents)

full covers

tables (documents)

diagrams

supported sewing structures

Islamic bindings

Astronomical instruments

Early works

Manuscripts, Persian

Astrolabes

Astronomy

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13554124

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_13604004_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library