Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 21

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6482

Shelfmark:

MS Or 21

Title:

al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah

Author:

Jaghmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, -1221 / جغميني، محمود بن محمد, -1221

Jaghmini WIKIDATA

Place:

India?

India TGN

Date:

between 1500 and 1840?

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 67 paginated leaves : paper, illustrations ; 220 x 130 (170 x 90 and 170 x 75) mm

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from introduction (p. 5); alternate title from p. [1].
Pagination: Pages are numbered in ink, upper center: [1]-134. References in the record are to page numbers as they appear in the manuscript.
Layout: 14-23 long lines with extensive marginalia, including interlinear comments.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, partially vocalized.
Decoration: Two tables (p. 12-13) and 45 diagrams in red and black; headings and other finding aids also in red.
Origin: Not dated; text was dedicated to Ulugh Beg when first composed; a marginal note on p. 2 also gives a date of A.H. 1256 (1840).
Shelfmark: MS Or 21.

Keyword:

tables (documents)

History

codices (bound manuscripts)

Early works

diagrams

manuscripts (documents)

helical endband sewing

Manuscripts, Arabic

Geography, Arab

Astronomy

New York (State)--New York

Islamic countries

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13604005

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_13604005_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library