Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 47

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6494

Shelfmark:

MS Or 47

Title:

Risālah bar usṭurlāb

Place:

Iran?

Iran TGN

Date:

1650-1800

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 online resource (50 paginated and unpaginated leaves) : paper, illustrations

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from f. 1r.
Foliation: Pagination in red and black ink, upper center; pages missed. Foliation in pencil added, upper left recto. References in the record are to the modern foliation.
Layout: 13 long lines.
Script: Written in taʻlīq in black ink; pointed, unvocalized.
Decoration: Headings and overlines in red; 16 diagrams (f. 9r, 10r/v, 11r/v, 12r, 13r/v, 14r, 15v, 16r/v, 17r, 19r/v, 20r) and 3 tables (f. 17v, 18r/v) in red and black.
Ottoman Turkish couplet on the front binding.
Shelfmark: MS Or 47.
Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith (bookplate inside front cover).

Keyword:

tables (documents)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Early works

Bookplates

diagrams

Manuscripts, Persian

New York (State)--New York

Astronomy, Arab

Astrolabes

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13604176

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_13604176_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library