Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 48

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6495

Shelfmark:

MS Or 48

Title:

Bīst bāb dar ʻilm-i usṭurlāb

Place:

Iran?

Iran TGN

Date:

1817.

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian with two pages in Arabic (f. 23r/v)

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 online resource (27 paginated leaves) : paper, illustrations

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from f.1r; alternate title from introduction, but incomplete because of damage to the leaf (f. 1v).
Pagination: Pages numbered in ink, upper outer corners. Modern foliation has been added in pencil, upper left recto. References in the record are to the modern foliation.
Layout: 13 long lines with marginalia, geometrical shapes, and tables.
Script: Written in nastaʻliq; pointed, unvocalized.
Decoration: Rubrications; 11 drawings and tables (f. 4r-5r, Insert r/v, 24r, 25r, 26r-27r).
Origin: Copied in 1232 AH., according to the colophon (f. 22v).
Shelfmark: MS Or 48.

Keyword:

tables (documents)

History

codices (bound manuscripts)

Early works

diagrams

Astrolabes

Islamic Empire

Manuscripts, Persian

Geography, Arab

Astronomy, Arab

New York (State)--New York

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13604180

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_13604180_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library