Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 41
Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS6512
- Shelfmark:
- MS Or 41
- Title:
- Sabʻ samavāt li-sirr-i samāʼī / سبع سموات لسر سمائی
- Author:
- Fārūqī, Fatḥ Allāh ibn Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAbd al-Shakūr, active approximately 16th century-17th century / فاروقى، فتح الله بن مصطفى بن عبد الشکور، active approximately 16th century-17th century
- Place:
- India?
- Date:
- between 1603 and 1699.
- Language:
- Persian
- Material:
- paper, illustrations
- 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
- Note:
- 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).
Foliation: Contemporary Hindu-Arabic foliation in ink, upper center recto, catchwords every verso, lower left.
Layout: 15 long lines.
Manuscript codex.
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.
Script: Written in rapid nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.
Shelfmark: MS Or 41. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13672993
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_13892504_000/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
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