University of Pennsylvania, LJS 400

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS650

Shelfmark:

LJS 400

Title:

Sharḥ-i Zīj Gūrgānī.

Author:

Qūshjī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, -1474 or 1475 / قوشجي، على بن محمد, -1474 or 1475

Ali Qushji WIKIDATA

Place:

Iran

Iran TGN

Date:

A.H. 899 (1493-1494)

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 409 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 177 x 128 (111 x 72) mm bound to 177 x 138 mm

Former Owner(s):

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar Yaḥyá / محمد بن جعفر يحيى

Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar Yaḥyá WIKIDATA

Note:

Origin: Copy completed in A.H. 899 (1493-1494, colophon, f. 409r).
Paper: Visible laid lines with chain lines in groups of 3.
Layout: Written in 15 long lines; frame ruled.
Ms. codex.
Notations on f. 1r.
Binding: Contemporary red leather with flap (Type II), blind-stamped central mandorla on covers and flap; marbled paper doublure.
Title from added title (f. 1r).
Collation: Paper, 409 + i; 41 gatherings, alternating between 8 and 12 leaves, with 1 extra leaf added to the last gathering; [1-409], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
Decoration: Numerous diagrams in red ink; rubrications in red.
Script: Written in a naskh script in black ink; pointed.
Formerly owned by Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar Yaḥyá (stamp, f. 1v, 409r).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Dec. 2000.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.

Keyword:

diagrams

Annotations

codices (bound manuscripts)

commentaries

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Persian

Stamps

Zij-i jadid-i Sultani (Ulugh Beg)

Early works

Astronomy

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9950812453503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3th8bp0r/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania