Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 148

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DS ID:

DS6545

Shelfmark:

MS Or 148

Title:

Risālah fī al-hayʼah al-falakīyah

Author:

Turkumānī, Kamāl al-Dīn, active 1354 / تركماني، كمال الدين، active 1354

Kamāl al-Dīn Turkumānī WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Khuwārizmī, Ḥusām ibn Fakhr al-Dīn / خوارزمي، حسام بن فخر الدين

Ḥusām ibn Fakhr al-Dīn Khuwārizmī WIKIDATA

Place:

Cairo

Cairo TGN

Date:

1401.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 67 pages : paper, illustrations ; 185 x 140 (165 x 115) mm, bound to 185 x 140 mm

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from title added in later hand (f. 1r).
Pagination: Pagination in Hindu-Arabic numerals in ink, upper outer corners (1-11), continuing pagination added in pencil, upper outer corners (12-67).
Layout: 25 to 30 lines per page. Written across the entire page with little room left for marginalia.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, unvocalized.
Decoration: Rubrications in red. Astronomical diagrams (f. 10r, 30r-30v, 60v).
Origin: Copy is dated 5 Muḥarram 804 AH, and was copied in Cairo by Ḥusām ibn Fakhr al-Dīn al-Khuwārizmī (f. 66v).
Shelfmark: MS Or 148.
Note in pencil on f. 1r: "Purchased in Beirut 1933. Verified by Dr. Rustem, Librarian".

Keyword:

commentaries

codices (bound manuscripts)

Early works

diagrams

manuscripts (documents)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah (Jighmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad)

Jighmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, -1221? Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah

Astronomy

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13893208

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_13893208_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library