Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 41

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DS ID:

DS6512

Shelfmark:

MS Or 41

Title:

Sabʻ samavāt li-sirr-i samāʼī

Author:

Isḥāqī, Fatḥ Allāh ibn Shaykh Muṣṭafá ibn Shaykh ʻAbd al-Shakūr Fārūqī / اسحاقي، فتح الله بن شيخ مصطفى بن شيخ عبد الشكور فاروقي

Fatḥ Allāh ibn Shaykh Muṣṭafá ibn Shaykh ʻAbd al-Shakūr Fārūqī Isḥāqī WIKIDATA

Place:

India?

India TGN

Date:

between 1603 and 1699.

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 86 foliated leaves : paper, illustrations ; 235 x 155 (200 x 110) mm, bound to 245 x 160 mm

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Foliation: Contemporary Hindu-Arabic foliation in ink, upper center recto, catchwords every verso, lower left.
Layout: 15 long lines.
Script: Written in rapid nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Several tables (f. 3r, 7r, 37r, 37v, 42r-43r, 44v-47r, 50v, 60r, 67r, 70v) and diagrams (f. 25r, 25v, 55r, 76v-77r, 79r).
Shelfmark: MS Or 41.
Origin: Copy dated what appears to be 1011 AH (f. 86v), though that date might also be read as 1111 AH, which would fit better with this author, who was likely active in the second half of the 17th century (Browne, A supplementary hand-list of Muhammadan MSS in Cambridge (1922): p123-124). Likely copied in India.

Keyword:

tables (documents)

diagrams

manuscripts (documents)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Astronomy, Arab--Tables

Astrology, Arab

Divination

Manuscripts, Persian

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13892504

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_13892504_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library